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George Raphael Fleming

George Raphael Fleming

Scotland international rugby union player

George Raphael Fleming (5 August 1850 – 13 December 1909) was a Scottish rugby union international player. He was born in Cathcart, Renfrewshire (now a suburb of Glasgow).[1]

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Rugby Union career

Amateur career

Fleming played as a forward for Glasgow Academicals.[2]

Provincial career

He represented Glasgow District against Edinburgh District in the world's first provincial match, the 'inter-city', on 23 November 1872,[3] and also played in the 5 December 1874 match.[4]

He also represented the West of Scotland District, captaining the side.[5]

International career

He represented Scotland in the 1874–75 Home Nations rugby union matches and 1875–76 Home Nations rugby union matches.[6]

References

  1. [1]
    "George Fleming - Rugby Union - Players and Officials - ESPN Scrum". ESPN scrum.
  2. [2]
    Nigel Trueman. "Rugby Football History".
  3. [3]
    "Football: Inter-City Football Match". The Glasgow Herald. 25 November 1872. Retrieved 11 December 2016.
  4. [4]
    "Football". The Glasgow Herald. 7 December 1874. p. 7. Retrieved 28 September 2019 – via Google News Archive Search.
  5. [5]
    https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000060/18760228/032/0006 – via British Newspaper Archive. {{cite news}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
  6. [6]
    "Rugby Union - ESPN Scrum - Statsguru - Player analysis - George Fleming - Test matches". ESPN scrum.
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