Laurie Duff
| Birth name | Peter Laurence Duff | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Date of birth | 12 November 1912 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Place of birth | Bothwell, Scotland | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Date of death | 6 November 2002 (aged 89) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Place of death | Stirling, Scotland | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Peter Laurence Duff (12 November 1912 – 6 November 2002) was a Scotland international rugby union player.[1] He also represented the British and Irish Lions.[2][3]
Rugby Union career
[edit]Amateur career
[edit]He played for Glasgow Academicals,[2] and Uddingston.
Provincial career
[edit]He represented Glasgow District.
He played for the Scotland Possibles side in their trial match against the Scotland Probables on 15 January 1938.[4]
International career
[edit]He played 6 matches for Scotland.[5]
He was selected for the 1938 British Lions tour to South Africa playing in two of the Test matches against South Africa, scoring a try in both.[2][3]
References
[edit]- ^ "Peter Laurance Duff". ESPN scrum.
- ^ a b c Bath, p118
- ^ a b "Laurie Duff". lionsrugby.com. Retrieved 22 April 2012.
- ^ https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000577/19380117/026/0004 – via British Newspaper Archive.
{{cite web}}: Missing or empty|title=(help) - ^ "Rugby Union - ESPN Scrum - Statsguru - Player analysis - Laurie Duff - Test matches". ESPN scrum.
- Sources
- Bath, Richard (ed.) The Scotland Rugby Miscellany (Vision Sports Publishing Ltd, 2007 ISBN 1-905326-24-6)
- Massie, Allan A Portrait of Scottish Rugby (Polygon, Edinburgh; ISBN 0-904919-84-6)
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- 1912 births
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- British & Irish Lions rugby union players from Scotland
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- Rugby union players from South Lanarkshire
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- Scottish rugby union players
- Uddingston RFC players
- Rugby union number eights
- People from Bothwell
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