James Campbell (rugby union)
Birth name | James Alexander Campbell | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Date of birth | 1 July 1858 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Place of birth | Lake Athabasca, British North America | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Date of death | 19 June 1902 | (aged 43)||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Place of death | Selkirk, Manitoba, Canada | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
School | Merchiston Castle School | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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James Alexander Campbell (1 July 1858 – 19 June 1902) was a Scotland international rugby union player.[1]
Rugby Union career
[edit]Amateur career
[edit]Campbell attended Merchiston Castle School, which he was attending when capped in 1878.[2]
For his final three internationals he was playing club rugby for Glasgow Academicals.
Provincial career
[edit]He was capped by Glasgow District for the inter-city match against Edinburgh District on 4 December 1880.[3]
He was capped by West of Scotland District for their match against East of Scotland District on 5 February 1881.[4]
International career
[edit]He made his debut for Scotland in 1878 at the young age of 19.
He was capped for Scotland between 1878 and 1881,[5] and he was amongst the youngest player ever to be capped for Scotland – he was nearly twenty years old when he was capped against England on 4 March 1878.[2]
He earned a total of 5 caps for Scotland.
References
[edit]- ^ Bath, pp 65, 109
- ^ a b Bath, p65
- ^ "The Glasgow Herald - Google News Archive Search".
- ^ "Register". Retrieved 17 March 2023 – via British Newspaper Archive.
- ^ Bath, p109
- Sources
- Bath, Richard (ed.) The Scotland Rugby Miscellany (Vision Sports Publishing Ltd, 2007 ISBN 1-905326-24-6)
- 1858 births
- 1902 deaths
- Scotland international rugby union players
- Rugby union players from Alberta
- People educated at Merchiston Castle School
- Merchistonian FC players
- Pre-Confederation Alberta people
- Scottish rugby union players
- Glasgow Academicals rugby union players
- West of Scotland District (rugby union) players
- Glasgow District (rugby union) players
- Rugby union halfbacks
- Scottish rugby union biography stubs