| Born | Ronald James Cunningham Glasgow 5 November 1930 Aberlady, Scotland | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Died | 6 October 2024 (aged 93) Dollar, Clackmannanshire, Scotland | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Notable relative(s) | Cammie Glasgow, son | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Ronald James Cunningham Glasgow, OBE (5 November 1930 – 6 October 2024) was a Scotland international rugby union player.[1]
Rugby Union career
[edit]Amateur career
[edit]Glasgow played for Dunfermline,[1] and Gordonians, as well as Jordanhill and Haddington.
Allan Massie stated:
"It was his misfortune to play for unfashionable clubs: Jordanhill College, Gordonians and Dunfermline. I have no doubt that had he played for Hawick or Gala or one of the big city clubs he would have represented his country more often."[2]Provincial career
[edit]Glasgow was to represent two district sides. He played 21 times for North and Midlands and 6 times for Glasgow District.[3]
International career
[edit]Glasgow was capped ten times between 1962 and 1965 for Scotland.[1]
Allan Massie considers that:
"Ron Glasgow was the most under-capped Scottish forward, winning only ten caps between 1962 and 1965... Glasgow's performance at Cardiff [in 1962] alone should have ensured him of a long reign at open-side wing-forward.[2]Glasgow's try was the first Scottish one in Cardiff for 27 years.[4]
Robin Lind (Harry?!) who played for Dunfermline and North and Midlands said "never, ever did I think my team would lose when Ron Glasgow played for us. And very seldom we did."[2]
Personal life and death
[edit]Glasgow was born in Aberlady in 1930, and attended Knox Academy.[5] He served in the parachute platoon of the Scots Guards.[5] He was PE teacher at Dollar Academy and head of the school cadet force.[2] He was appointed OBE in the 1990 New Year Honours for his service with the Combined Cadet Force, in which he was a lieutenant colonel.[5]
In 1958, he married his first wife, Anette, who died in 1962, from complications encountered in childbirth and cerebral palsy, shortly after the birth of their son.[5] He then remarried, to Anne Fleming (died 1988), and they had twins, one of whom is Cammie Glasgow, who was also capped for Scotland.[1][5] Glasgow was a Presbyterian.[5]
Glasgow died in Dollar on 6 October 2024, at the age of 93.[5][6]
References
[edit]- ^ a b c d Bath, p140
- ^ a b c d Massie, p187
- ^ "The Glasgow Herald - Google News Archive Search".
- ^ McLaren, p122
- ^ a b c d e f g "Obituaries: Ron Glasgow, Scottish rugby international who won OBE for services to the Combined Cadet Force". The Scotsman. 23 October 2024. Retrieved 23 October 2024.
- ^ Vallance, Matt (16 October 2024). "Obituary: Ron Glasgow: a relentless flanker who earned his first Scotland cap out of Dunfermline, aged 31". The Offside Line. Retrieved 23 October 2024.
- Bath, Richard (ed.) The Scotland Rugby Miscellany (Vision Sports Publishing Ltd, 2007 ISBN 1-905326-24-6)
- 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)
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