Tommy McClung
| Birth name | Thomas McClung | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Date of birth | 14 February 1933 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Place of birth | Edinburgh, Scotland | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Tommy McClung (born 14 February 1933) is a Scottish former international rugby union player who played for Edinburgh Academicals in Edinburgh.[1]
McClung played as a Centre.[2]
He was capped 9 times for Scotland. His debut came in the 1956 Five Nations playing against Ireland at Lansdowne Road.[3] His last test was in the 1960 Five Nations playing against Wales in Cardiff.[4]
Tommy was part of the Edinburgh Academicals squad that won the unofficial championship of Scotland in 1955-56 season.[5] He is renowned as an Accies post war great and is in the Edinburgh Academicals Hall of Fame.[6]
He was capped by Edinburgh District.[7][8][9] His period of representing Edinburgh District coincided with their best run in the Scottish Inter-District Championship; from 1956 to 1963 Edinburgh shared the title 5 times and won the title outright 2 times.
His younger brother G. McClung also played for Edinburgh Academicals and Edinburgh District.[10]
References
- ^ "Rugby Union - ESPN Scrum - Statsguru - Player analysis - Tommy McClung - Test matches". ESPN scrum.
- ^ "Tommy McClung - Rugby Union - Players and Officials - ESPN Scrum". ESPN scrum.
- ^ "Rugby Union - ESPN Scrum - Ireland v Scotland at Lansdowne Road". ESPN scrum.
- ^ "Rugby Union - ESPN Scrum - Wales v Scotland at Cardiff". ESPN scrum.
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- ^ "The Glasgow Herald - Google News Archive Search".
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