1905 ALL BLACK

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXVI, Issue 23277, 21 February 1939, Page 11

1905 ALL BLACK

DEATH IN WELLINGTON MR. F. T. GLASGOW'S CAREER PROMINENT RUGBY OFFICIAL [by telegraph—own correspondent! WELLINGTON, Monday The death occurred to-day of Mr. Francis Turnbull Glasgow, a member of the 1905 All Black team and a wellknown Rugby administrator. He was manager of the Te Aro branch of the Bank of New Zealand. Mr. Glasgow, who was born in Dunedin in 1880, joined the Bank of New Zealand at Te Aro in 1896 and after serving in other branches he returned to Te Aro in 1931, succeeding Mr. J. Fitzsiininons as manager. As a young officer of the bank Mr. Glasgow was transferred from Te Aro to Hawera in 1901 and to Eltham in 1903. Two years later he was granted nine months' leave of absence to enable him to visit England as a member of the famous All Black team. Upon his return he was transferred to Waipawa and later to Invercargill, where ho remained for four years.

In 1911 Mr. Glasgow was appointed manager at Kaikohe, and four years later he was transferred to a similar position at Ohura. In 1922 he was made manager at Raetilii and in 1938 was appointed to the relieving staff, after which he became manager at Te Aro. A fine forward in his younger days, Mr. Glasgow took a keen interest in the game wherever he was stationed and maintained that interest throughout his life. In inter-provincial football he was a prominent figure and it was as a Taranaki representative that he won his way into 1 the 1905 team, with which lie played in Australia as well as in England. In later years Mr. Glasgow appeared again for New Zealand against the Anglo-We.lsh team in 1908. He represented Wellington from 1899 to 1900, and Taranaki, Hawke's Bay and Southland. When his playing days were over he gave fine service as an official of clubs and unions, and for many years he was the King Country Union delegate to the New Zealand Rugby Union. He was a life member of the King Countrv Union.

In 1931 Mr. Glasgow was elected to a seat on the New Zealand Rugby Union, and since then he has been actively connected with tho administration of the game in New Zealand. One of his last important duties was to pilot the Springbok team on the greater part of its last tour of New Zealand.