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British Lions & Scotland international rugby union player

Douglas S. Davies (23 July 1899 – 9 March 1987) was a Scottish international rugby union player, who played for Scotland and the British & Irish Lions at number 8.

Davies was born in Ashkirk, Scottish Borders. He was capped 24 times for Scotland.

He also played for Hawick RFC, and was on the 1924 British Lions tour to South Africa.

He died, aged, 87, in Peel, Isle of Man.

References

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)

^ Bath, p118
"Douglas S. Davies". ESPN scrum. Retrieved 8 June 2021.

External links

Doug Davies at ESPNscrum

v t e British Lions – 1924 South Africa tour
Forwards	Blakiston (Blackheath) Bradley (Dolphin) Brand (North of Ireland FC) Clinch (Dublin University) Cove-Smith (Old Merchant Taylors) (capt) D. Davies (Hawick and Scotland) Henderson (Newcastle Northern and Scotland) Hendrie (Heriots FP and Scotland) R.A. Howie (Kirkcaldy RFC and Scotland) Marsden-Jones (Cardiff and London Welsh) McPherson (Newport) McVicker (Collegians) Roche (UCC and Newport) Ross (Kilmarnock and Scotland) Voyce (Gloucester)
Backs	Bordass (Cambridge University) Cunningham (Lansdowne) H. Davies (Newport) Drysdale (Heriots FP and Scotland) W.F. Gaisford (St. Bart's Hospital) V. Griffiths (Newport) Holliday (Aspatria) Harris (Blackheath) Harding (Swansea) Kinnear (Heriots FP and Scotland) Maxwell (Birkenhead Park) Ian Smith (Oxford University and Scotland) Waddell (Glasgow Academicals and Scotland) Wallace (Percy Park) Whitley (Northern) Young (Blackheath)
Coach	Manager: Harry Packer

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