"FLYING SCOTSMAN”
Famous Rugby Players “Wager’.’ writes: —“Would you kindly advise nie of the correct name of the Scottish internatonal footballer nicknamed ‘The Flying Scotsman’? Will you kindly say, whether, there was more than one international footballer so nicknamed?” - , “The Flying Scotsman, as all the world should know, is the name borne by the London-Edinburgh express railway train,. which loses no time between the English and Scottish capitals. Any Rugby footballer who hailed from north of the Tweed, -and who could travel fast, ran a risk of being dubbed “The Flying Scotsman.” The Scottish international who was so nicknamed was lan Smith, who, with: G. P. S. Macpherson, has been responsible for keeping Scotland at the head of the Rugby ladder in Great Britain since the Great War. Smith, however, was by no means the first man to be dubbed “The ' Flying Scotsman.” This hopour was bestowed upon Duncan McGregor, the New Zealand wing-three-quarter, who scored two tries for.. New Zealand against the British team at Wellington’in 1904, and t ou J tries for New Zealand against England ut London in 1005.
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Dominion, Volume 23, Issue 219, 12 June 1930, Page 17
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