Ernie Michie
Birth name | Ernest James Stewart Michie | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Date of birth | 7 November 1933 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Place of birth | Aberdeen, Scotland | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Weight | 89 kg (14 st 0 lb) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Ernest "Ernie" James Stewart Michie (born 7 November 1933 in Aberdeen, Scotland) is a former Scotland international rugby union player, who played for Scotland and the Lions.[1] He played at Lock[2] and his nickname was "Fourteen".[1] He weighed 14 stone.[2]
Rugby Union Career
Amateur career
He also played for Aberdeen GSFP,[3] Langholm RFC,[2] and Aberdeen University.[2][3][4][5] His other clubs were London Scottish and the Army while in the Royal Engineers.[1]Highland Rugby Club. He played 10 games for Leicester Tigers in the 1957-58 season.[6]
Provincial career
He represented North of Scotland in the first year of the Scottish Inter-District Championship in season 1953-54.[7]
In subsequent seasons this combined North side (which previously contained Midlands District players) became formally known as North and Midlands in the championship. Michie also represented this side.[8]
International career
He was on the 1955 British Lions tour to South Africa.[5]
He was also selected for Barbarians.[1]
References
- ^ a b c d Godwin, p282
- ^ a b c d McLaren, p81
- ^ a b Massie, p132
- ^ Jones, p66
- ^ a b Bath, p118
- ^ Farmer, Stuart; Hands, David (2014). Tigers - Official history of Leicester Football Club. The Rugby Development Foundation. p. 148. ISBN 978-0-9930213-0-5.
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- Sources
- Bath, Richard (ed.) The Scotland Rugby Miscellany (Vision Sports Publishing Ltd, 2007 ISBN 1-905326-24-6)
- Godwin, Terry Complete Who's Who of International Rugby (Cassell, 1987, ISBN 0-7137-1838-2)
- Jones, J.R. Encyclopedia of Rugby Football (Robert Hale, London, 1958)
- McLaren, Bill Talking of Rugby (1991, Stanley Paul, London ISBN 0-09-173875-X)
- Massie, Allan A Portrait of Scottish Rugby (Polygon, Edinburgh; ISBN 0-904919-84-6)
- Use dmy dates from November 2012
- Scottish rugby union players
- Scotland international rugby union players
- Rugby union players from Aberdeen
- British and Irish Lions rugby union players from Scotland
- Barbarian F.C. players
- Langholm RFC players
- Aberdeen GSFP RFC players
- Aberdeen University RFC players
- London Scottish F.C. players
- People educated at Aberdeen Grammar School
- Living people
- 1933 births
- North of Scotland (combined side) players
- North and Midlands players
- Leicester Tigers players
- Scottish rugby union biography stubs