Rugby player
| Birth name | Peter Laurence Duff | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Date of birth | (1912-11-12)12 November 1912 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Place of birth | Bothwell, Scotland | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Date of death | 6 November 2002(2002-11-06) (aged 89) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Place of death | Stirling, Scotland | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Peter Laurence Duff (12 November 1912 – 6 November 2002) was a Scotland international rugby union player. He also represented the British and Irish Lions.
Rugby Union career
Amateur career
He played for Glasgow Academicals, and Uddingston.
Provincial career
He represented Glasgow District.
He played for the Scotland Possibles side in their trial match against the Scotland Probables on 15 January 1938.
International career
He played 6 matches for Scotland.
He was selected for the 1938 British Lions tour to South Africa playing in two of the Test matches against South Africa, scoring a try in both.
References
- "Peter Laurance Duff". ESPN scrum.
- ^ Bath, p118
- ^ "Laurie Duff". lionsrugby.com. Retrieved 22 April 2012.
- https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000577/19380117/026/0004 – via British Newspaper Archive.
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- Sources
- Bath, Richard (ed.) The Scotland Rugby Miscellany (Vision Sports Publishing Ltd, 2007 ISBN 1-905326-24-6)
- Massie, Allan A Portrait of Scottish Rugby (Polygon, Edinburgh; ISBN 0-904919-84-6)
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- 1912 births
- 2002 deaths
- British & Irish Lions rugby union players from Scotland
- Glasgow Academicals rugby union players
- Glasgow District (rugby union) players
- Rugby union players from South Lanarkshire
- Scotland international rugby union players
- Scotland Possibles players
- Scottish rugby union players
- Uddingston RFC players
- Rugby union number eights
- People from Bothwell
- Scottish rugby union biography stubs