Iain Laughland

Who is Iain Laughland?

Ian Hugh Page Laughland was a Scottish rugby player, who played for Scotland and London Scottish FC and, before that, Merchiston Castle School. He was a fly half, and took over from Gordon Waddell. He was capped 31 times between 1959-1967.

McLaren says of a game against South Africa in 1960

The Scottish try was a typical opportunist effort by Scotland's captain Arthur Smith. Iain Laughland operating at stand-off, tried a drop-goal after John Douglas, Norman Bruce and Hugh McLeod had rolled out of the back of a line-out. The ball sliced off Laughland's foot, but Arthur Smith, purring as always like a high powered Rolls Royce, screamed up the wing like a shell and got the touch before the ball rolled out of play... The match was marked by some magnificent Scottish tackling in which the mid-field of Laughland, Eddie McKeating, and George Stevenson set a superb example, that deprived a South African threequarter line comprising Janie Engelbrecht, Ian Kirkpatrick, John Gainsford and Hennie van Zyl of a try; some feat considering that those four contributed 38 tries during the tour.