Alexander Cairns (rugby union)
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Scotland international rugby union player
Rugby player
| Birth name | Alexander Gordon Cairns | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Date of birth | (1878年04月26日)26 April 1878 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Place of birth | Hamilton, Scotland | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Date of death | 8 April 1968(1968年04月08日) (aged 89) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Place of death | Edinburgh, Scotland | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Alexander Cairns (1878–1968) was a Scotland international rugby union player[1]
Rugby Union career
[edit ]Amateur career
[edit ]Cairns played for Watsonians. He was nicknamed Fatty.
Provincial career
[edit ]He was capped by Edinburgh District in 1902 playing in the Inter-City match against Glasgow District.[2]
International career
[edit ]He was capped 12 times for the Scotland international side, from 1903 to 1906.[3]
References
[edit ]- ^ "Alexander Gordon Cairns". ESPN scrum.
- ^ "The Glasgow Herald - Google News Archive Search". news.google.com.
- ^ "Rugby Union - ESPN Scrum - Statsguru - Player analysis - Fatty Cairns - Test matches". ESPN scrum.
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