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Scotland international rugby union player

Rugby player
Douglas Monypenny
Birth nameDouglas Blackwell Monypenny
Date of birth(1878-05-28)28 May 1878
Place of birthFife, Scotland
Date of death22 February 1900(1900-02-22) (aged 21)
Place of deathPaardeberg, South Africa
Notable relative(s)Charlton Monypenny, brother
Rugby union career
Position(s) centre
Amateur team(s)
Years Team Apps (Points)
London Scottish F.C. ()
Provincial / State sides
Years Team Apps (Points)
- Anglo-Scots ()
International career
Years Team Apps (Points)
1899 Scotland 3 (3)

Douglas Blackwell Monypenny (28 May 1878 – 22 February 1900, in Paardeberg) was a Scottish international rugby player,

Rugby Union career

Amateur career

He played for London Scottish FC.

Provincial career

Monypenny played for the Anglo-Scots in 1898.

International career

He was capped three times for Scotland in the 1899 Home Nations Championship, scoring a try in the game against Wales.

Death

Monypenny was killed in the Second Boer War, and is the only Scottish rugby internationalist known to have died in either conflict. He was twenty one at the time.

References

  1. ^ Player profile on scrum.com. Retrieved 20 February 2010
  2. ^ Bath, p109
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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