Gordon Waddell
Rugby Player, Athlete
1937 – 2012
Who was Gordon Waddell?
Gordon Herbert Waddell was a Scottish rugby union player and the son of Herbert Waddell. He played for Scotland, the Barbarians and on two British and Irish Lions tours. In fact he is the only Scottish stand off to be a double lion. He had 18 caps between 1957–62 - this record for a Scotland fly-half was only later broken by John Rutherford. He played 12 times for the Barbarians between 1957 and 1960, scoring in three matches including their 1958 match against East Africa in Nairobi on 28 May 1958. In 1962 he was the controlling influence in Scotland's first win in Wales since the 1930s, a feat not repeated for another twenty years.
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- Born
- Apr 12, 1937
Glasgow - Also known as
- Gordon H. Waddell
- Gordon James Barr Waddell
- Gordon Herbert Waddell
- Parents
- Spouses
- Children
- Nationality
- Scotland
- Profession
- Education
- University of Cambridge
- Lived in
- Glasgow
- Died
- Aug 13, 2012
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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