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About Scotland
The proud tradition of Scottish international rugby has long flowered in all aspects of the game. In the highest sphere of all, Scotland have played in every Rugby World Cup since the inaugural tournament in 1987. The best result that they have achieved was to finish fourth in 1991. In the semi-final of that tournament, Scotland had an agonising 6–9 loss to England at Murrayfield after a Gavin Hastings penalty miss very near to the posts. The team went on to lose the third-place play-off to New Zealand in Cardiff 13–6. In every succeeding tournament bar one they have reached the quarter final but progressed no further.
At home Scotland have embraced all the different strains of the competition – from the International Championship to the Five Nations and now in the Six Nations. The Scots have been playing international Rugby Union since 1871 when they beat England. Scotland have competed in this contest from the inaugural tournament in 1883, winning it 14 times outright—including the last ever Five Nations in 1999—and sharing it another 8. In 2000 the competition accepted a sixth competitor, Italy, thus forming the Six Nations but this is a period which has been bereft of a Scottish team gaining the top prize.
The tournament has spawned different trophies for different games or combinations of games. Thus the team that comes out top out of the four Home Nations wins the Triple Crown – an age-old tradition but one for which a trophy was only first presented in 2006. However the match between Scotland and England has a trophy and a tradition that outdates them all.
When the Calcutta (Rugby) Football Club was disbanded in 1878 which had been founded by pupils from Rugby School, members decided to keep the memory of the club alive by having the remaining 270 silver rupees in their bank account melted down to be made into a trophy. The trophy was then presented to the Rugby Football Union (RFU) to be used as “the best means of doing some lasting good for the cause of Rugby Football.” Hence the Calcutta Cup trophy which features three king cobras and an elephant!
Let’s look at some of the great players who have been proud to run out on the pitch at Murrayfield in Edinburgh in the blue Scottish jersey. Chris Paterson is not only Scotland’s most capped player with 109 appearances, he is also the country’s leading scorer with 809 points to his credit. Chris was able to play as full-back, wing and fly-half.
Two men share the distinction of being Scotland’s top try scorers, Ian Smith and Tony Stanger, each with 24 to their name. Tony is celebrated in Scotland for scoring the winning try against England which sealed Scotland’s third Grand Slam in 1990. Ian Scott Smith was born in Melbourne and brought up in New Zealand but via attending Oxford University and with Scottish parents, he became a legend in Scottish Rugby history. He played for Scotland until 1933 when he captained them in their Grand Slam season.
Over the years Scotland have won the tournament outright six times, sharing it a further nine times. They have achieved three grand slams, ten triple crowns and alas thirty three wooden spoons “awarded” for finishing bottom of the bunch.
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