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Aberdeen GSFP RFC

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Location
  
Aberdeen, Scotland

Coach(es)
  
Ali O'Connor

Founded
  
1893

Chairman
  
Gordon Thomson

Captain(s)
  
Doug Russell

Union
  
Scottish Rugby Union

Full name
  
Aberdeen Grammar Rugby Football Club

Ground(s)
  
Rubislaw Playing Fields (Capacity: 5,000 (150 in stand))

League
  
Scottish National League Division One

Aberdeen Grammar School FP RFC, also known as Aberdeen Grammar, are an amateur rugby union club based in Aberdeen, Scotland. They currently play in the Scottish National League Division One. The club plays its home games at Rubislaw in the city's west end.

Notable players

Scotland

  • John Robert Stephen Innes, 1939 and 1946.
  • William Dallas "Dally" Allardice, 1947 to 1949 (8 caps)
  • E.T.S Michie, the first University of Aberdeen Lions player in the 1955 British Lions tour to South Africa and also in Barbarian FC.
  • Robbie Russell (27 caps)
  • Andrew Wilson (2 caps)
  • Johnnie Beattie
  • Moray Low, 2008 to 2013

    • A number of former players have also gone on to play professional rugby including:

  • Stuart Corsar - Glasgow Warriors, Rotherham Titans, Doncaster Knights
  • Sean Crombie - Edinburgh Rugby
  • Dave Millard - Glasgow Warriors
  • Matt Taylor - Edinburgh Rugby, Border Reivers. Current coach for Glasgow Warriors and Scotland
  • Ben Prescott - Glasgow Warriors, Rotherham Titans, Nottingham, Leinster, Northampton Saints, Cornish Pirates

    • References

    Aberdeen GSFP RFC Wikipedia
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