Alex Angus

Alex Angus

Birth name	Alexander William Angus
Date of birth	(1889-11-11)11 November 1889
Place of birth	Sydney, Australia
Date of death	25 March 1947(1947-03-25) (aged 57)
Place of death	Edinburgh, Scotland
Rugby union career
Position(s) Centre Amateur team(s) Years Team Apps (Points) Watsonians () Provincial / State sides Years Team Apps (Points) 1910 Edinburgh District () 1911 Whites Trial 1 (4) International career Years Team Apps (Points) 1909-20 Scotland 18 (9)

Alexander William Angus (11 November 1889 – 23 March 1947) was a Scottish international rugby union and cricket player.[1][2]

Rugby Union career

Amateur career

He played club rugby for Watsonians.[3]

Provincial career

He played for Edinburgh District against Glasgow District in the 1910 inter-city match. Edinburgh won the match 26–5, with Angus scoring a try.[4]

He played for the Whites Trial side against the Blues Trial side on 21 January 1911, while still with Watsonians. He scored a drop goal in a 26–19 win for the Whites.[5]

International career

He was capped eighteen for the Scotland rugby union team between 1909 and 1920.[3]

Richard Bath mentions him as one of the three Scottish players "who've gone the longest without (between) scoring a try for Scotland" along with Alan Tait and Gary Armstrong.[6] This is partly because World War I occurred in the middle of his international career, a period in which all international rugby ceased. He was first capped in 1909, scoring two tries in fourteen matches before the Great War.[6] His next four caps came in 1920, and he scored against Ireland on 28 February 1920 – just over nine years since his previous try.[6] Scotland won that match 19–0.[6]

Cricket career

He also played for the Scotland national cricket team.[3]

See also

• List of Scottish cricket and rugby union players
• Jock Wemyss and Charlie Usher, other players capped on both sides of the war.

References

1. "Alexander Angus: International profile". Scrum.com. Retrieved 9 August 2012.
2. "Alexander Angus". espncricinfo.com. Retrieved 7 December 2013.
3. Bath, p104
4. "The Glasgow Herald - Google News Archive Search". news.google.com. Retrieved 20 July 2021.
5. https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000576/19110123/110/0009 – via British Newspaper Archive. {{cite news}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
6. Bath, p64

Sources

1. Bath, Richard (ed.) The Scotland Rugby Miscellany (Vision Sports Publishing Ltd, 2007 ISBN 1-905326-24-6)
2. Massie, Allan A Portrait of Scottish Rugby (Polygon, Edinburgh; ISBN 0-904919-84-6)