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Rugby player
Gordon Watt
Full nameAlexander Gordon Mitchell Watt
Date of birth(1916-12-19)19 December 1916
Date of death16 April 1982(1982-04-16) (aged 65)
Occupation(s)Orthopaedic surgeon
Rugby union career
Position(s) Forward
International career
Years Team Apps (Points)
1947–48 Scotland 6 (0)

Alexander Gordon Mitchell Watt (19 December 1916 — 16 April 1982) was a Scottish international rugby union player.

Watt, the son of a doctor, attended Dundee High School and Edinburgh Academy, before following his father into medicine with studies at the University of Edinburgh, from which he graduated in 1940.

An orthopaedic surgeon, Watt played rugby briefly after the war until his medical career took priority. He was an Edinburgh Academical forward and was capped six times for Scotland.

Watt was also a Scottish champion in the sport of shooting.

See also

References

  1. "Scotland's Two Changes". Liverpool Daily Post. 5 March 1946.
  2. ^ "Obituary". British Medical Journal. 284: 1778. 12 June 1982.
  3. "They Wear The Thistle". Daily Record. 1 February 1947.

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