Mark Coxon Morrison

For other people named Mark Morrison, see Mark Morrison (disambiguation).

Mark Coxon Morrison

Birth name	Mark Coxon Morrison
Date of birth	(1877-04-02)2 April 1877
Place of birth	Dalmeny, Scotland
Date of death	10 May 1945(1945-05-10) (aged 68)
Place of death	Longniddry, Scotland
School	Royal High School, Edinburgh
Occupation(s)	Farmer
Rugby union career
Position(s) Forward Amateur team(s) Years Team Apps (Points) - Royal HSFP Leicester Tigers () Provincial / State sides Years Team Apps (Points) - Edinburgh District () International career Years Team Apps (Points) 1896-1904 1903 Scotland British and Irish Lions 23 3 (0) (0)
55th President of the Scottish Rugby Union
In office 1934–1935
Preceded by	John MacGill
Succeeded by	William Patrick Scott

Mark Coxon Morrison (2 April 1877 – 10 May 1945) was a Scottish international rugby union footballer who captained both Scotland and the British and Irish Lions.

Rugby Union career

Amateur career

Morrison played for Royal HSFP.

He played two games for Leicester, one in 1898 and one in 1902.

Provincial career

Morrison played for Edinburgh District and played in the Inter-City matches against Glasgow District.

International career

He played for Scotland twenty three times between 1896 and 1904, and captained the team fifteen times, a record which stood until the era of Arthur Smith, sixty years later.

He first played for Scotland against Wales in 1896, while a teenager playing for Royal HSFP. He continued to play for Scotland until 1904, and captained them a total of 15 times. With Scotland he won three Home Nations Championship with them in 1901, 1903 and 1904. Two of those Championship victories were Triple Crown wins (1901 and 1903).

He was chosen to captain the British and Irish Lions on the 1903 British Lions tour to South Africa. The Lions lost the Test series 1–0 with two drawn. In 2002 he was inducted into the Scottish Sports Hall of Fame.

Jimmy Sinclair, the Springbok forward described Morrison as "a real roughouse of a man, and a great leader."

Administrative career

He was the 55th President of the Scottish Rugby Union, in post from 1934 to 1935.

Outside of rugby

Mark Coxon Morrison was born to John Morrison (1839-1923) and Jane Begg (1846-1911) in Dalmeny, West Lothian. He was a farmer by trade.

References

Sources

1. Bath, Richard (ed.) The Complete Book of Rugby (Seven Oaks Ltd, 1997 ISBN 1-86200-013-1)

External links

• Mark Coxon Morrison at the Scottish Sports Hall of Fame
• Mark Morrison at ESPNscrum
• "The names in the Hall of Fame". BBC. 30 November 2002. Retrieved 21 July 2008.
• "1903 South Africa". lionsrugby.com. Archived from the original on 21 March 2009. Retrieved 21 July 2008.
• "Six Nations roll of honour". BBC. 29 January 2004. Retrieved 21 July 2008.