Jock Wemyss


Andrew "Jock" Wemyss (pronounced "Weemz") (22 May 1893, Galashiels – 21 January 1974, Edinburgh) was a Scottish rugby union player, who played at prop. Wemyss lost one of his eyes in World War I, but continued to play after the war (games were suspended during the conflict).

Jock Wemyss
Birth nameAndrew Wemyss
Date of birth(1893-05-22)22 May 1893
Place of birthGalashiels, Scottish Borders, Scotland
Date of death21 January 1974(1974-01-21) (aged 80)
Place of deathEdinburgh, Scotland
Rugby union career
Amateur team(s)
Years Team Apps (Points)
Brunstane RFC ()
Haddington RFC ()
International career
Years Team Apps (Points)
Scotland

Rugby Union career

Amateur career

Wemyss played for Brunstane in Edinburgh.

From the Musselburgh News of 5 March 1920:

Mr Andrew Wemyss, who resides in Joppa, and is a former member of the Brunstane Rugby Football Club, has been selected by the Scottish Rugby Football Union to take part in the international match against England. It is the third international honour which has fallen to the lot of this player.

He became a founder member of two rugby union clubs; first Haddington and then Co-Optimists.

Wemyss, together with George St Claire Murray, a rugby enthusiast from the Watsonians club, founded the Co-Optimists invitational rugby club in 1924.[1] This came after an invitation game against Haddington, a club Wemyss had been a founder member of at the age of 17.

Wemyss went on to be successful journalist and commentator, and on the occasion of Haddington's 90th anniversary, the club received a letter from the Bill McLaren stating how much he owed Jock for early tutelage.

See also

References

  1. "Co-Ops History". Co-optimist Rugby. 2016. Archived from the original on 20 September 2016. Retrieved 15 May 2016.
  • Bath, Richard (ed.) The Scotland Rugby Miscellany (Vision Sports Publishing Ltd, 2007 ISBN 1-905326-24-6)
  • profile at scrum.com
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