Fletcher Buchanan

Fletcher Buchanan
Birth name	Fletcher Gordon Buchanan
Date of birth	23 December 1889
Place of birth	Glasgow, Scotland
Date of death	24 May 1960 (aged 70)
Place of death	Dollar, Clackmannanshire, Scotland
University	Oxford University
Rugby union career
Position(s)
Position(s)	Centre
Amateur team(s)
Years	Team
	Kelvinside Academicals
–	Oxford University
–	Kelvinside Academicals
Provincial / State sides
Years	Team
1911	Whites Trial
International career
Years	Team
1910-11	Scotland

Fletcher Buchanan (23 December 1889 – 24 May 1960) was a Scotland international rugby union player. He played as a Centre.^[1]

Rugby Union career

Amateur career

Buchanan played for Kelvinside Academicals.^[2]

On studying at Oxford University he then played for Oxford University.^[3]

After studying at Oxford, he returned to Glasgow and played for Kelvinside Academicals once more. He captained the side.

The Scottish Referee, 20 November 1911, said this of Buchanan:^[4]

one of the best three-quarters who played for Oxford last season has improved since he returned to the land of his birth, but it is a fact, and to-day the Kelvinside captain is one of the finest players behind the scrummage we have in Scotland. His displays in recent matches have shattered the opinion that he was only a fair weather sailor. He is more than that; he is a most excellent defensive player, besides being an aggressive artist of the premier type - Buchanan is a great exponent of the carrying game, and we hope this season to find him adorned with that emblem which only falls to the lot of a selected few.

Provincial career

He played for the Whites Trial side against the Blues Trial side on 21 January 1911, while still with Oxford University.^[5]

International career

He played for Scotland three times, selected in 1910 and 1911.^[6]

References

^ "Fletcher Gordon Buchanan".
^ Scotland. The Essential History of Rugby Union. Nick Oswald and John Griffiths. Headline Publishing. 2003.
^ Scotland. The Essential History of Rugby Union. Nick Oswald and John Griffiths. Headline Publishing. 2003.
^ https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0001876/19111120/010/0001. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
^ https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000576/19110123/110/0009. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
^ "Rugby Union - ESPN Scrum - Statsguru - Player analysis - Fletcher Buchanan - Test matches".

[1] "Fletcher Gordon Buchanan".

[2] Scotland. The Essential History of Rugby Union. Nick Oswald and John Griffiths. Headline Publishing. 2003.

[3] Scotland. The Essential History of Rugby Union. Nick Oswald and John Griffiths. Headline Publishing. 2003.

[4] ttps://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0001876/19111120/010/0001. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)

[5] ttps://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000576/19110123/110/0009. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)

[6] "Rugby Union - ESPN Scrum - Statsguru - Player analysis - Fletcher Buchanan - Test matches".

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