Adam Robson
| Born | Adam Robson 16 August 1928 Hawick, Scotland | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Died | 15 March 2007 (aged 78) Dollar, Scotland | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| 97th President of the Scottish Rugby Union | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| In office 1983–1984 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Preceded by | George Thomson | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Succeeded by | Hamish Kemp | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Adam Robson (16 August 1928 – 15 March 2007) was a Scotland international rugby union player.[1] He played as a flanker.[1]
Rugby union career
[edit]Amateur career
[edit]He was playing for the Edinburgh College of Art. A relative Andrew Gordon suggested he play with Hawick Linden before trying to make the step up to Hawick.[2]
Robson then played for Hawick Linden and Hawick.[3]
Provincial career
[edit]He was capped by South of Scotland District in the 1954–55 Scottish Inter-District Championship.[4]
International career
[edit]He was capped twenty-two times for Scotland between 1954 and 1960.[1][5]
Administrative career
[edit]Robson served on the Barbarians committee for 20 years.
He became the 97th President of the Scottish Rugby Union. He served the standard one year from 1983 to 1984.[6]
Outside of rugby union
[edit]He was an art teacher at Dollar Academy. He was a prolific artist selling more than 900 works; and also authored three books.[7]
References
[edit]- 1 2 3 "Player profile". Scrum.com. Retrieved 15 February 2010.
- ↑ "Welcome to scotsman.com the best place for Scottish news and features". The Scotsman.
- ↑ Jones, pp. 43/4
- ↑ "Handicapped City Team Put Up a Brave Show". Evening Times. 16 October 1954.
- ↑ "Rugby Union - ESPN Scrum - Statsguru - Player analysis - Adam Robson - Test matches". ESPN scrum.
- ↑ "Scottish Rugby Record 2018/19" (PDF). S3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com. Archived from the original (PDF) on 16 November 2019. Retrieved 28 October 2021.
- ↑ "Adam Robson". HeraldScotland.com. 16 March 2007.
- Sources
- Bath, Richard (ed.) The Complete Book of Rugby (Seven Oaks Ltd, 1997 ISBN 1-86200-013-1)
- Bath, Richard (ed.) The Scotland Rugby Miscellany (Vision Sports Publishing Ltd, 2007 ISBN 1-905326-24-6)
- Jones, J.R. Encyclopedia of Rugby Union Football (Robert Hale, London, 1976 ISBN 0-7091-5394-5)
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