Bill Black (rugby union)
| Birth name | William Pollok Black | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Date of birth | 19 February 1928 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Place of birth | Rutherglen, Scotland | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Date of death | 9 May 2019 (aged 91) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Bill Black (19 February 1928 – 9 May 2019) was a Scotland international rugby union player who played at prop.[1]
Rugby union career
[edit]Amateur career
[edit]Black played for Glasgow HSFP.[2]
Provincial career
[edit]Black played for Glasgow District.[3]
International career
[edit]He was capped a total of five times for the Scotland international team.[4]
References
[edit]- ^ "William Pollok Black". Espnscrum.com. Retrieved 1 June 2022.
- ^ "The Glasgow Herald - Google News Archive Search". News.google.com. Retrieved 1 June 2022.
- ^ "Register". Retrieved 17 March 2023 – via British Newspaper Archive.
- ^ "Rugby Union - ESPN Scrum - Statsguru - Player analysis - Bill Black - Test matches". En.espn.com.
- Sources
- Bath, Richard (ed.) The Scotland Rugby Miscellany (Vision Sports Publishing Ltd, 2007 ISBN 1-905326-24-6)
- Cotton, Fran (Ed.) (1984) The Book of Rugby Disasters & Bizarre Records. Compiled by Chris Rhys. London. Century Publishing. ISBN 0-7126-0911-3
- Jones, J.R. Encyclopedia of Rugby Union Football (Robert Hale, London, 1976 ISBN 0-7091-5394-5)
- Massie, Allan A Portrait of Scottish Rugby (Polygon, Edinburgh; ISBN 0-904919-84-6)