Stan Coughtrie was a Scottish international

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1959 British Lions tour to Australia and New Zealand In 1959, the British Lions rugby union team toured Australia and New Zealand. The Lions won the two test matches against but lost the international series against the All Blacks by three matches to one. They also played two matches in Canada, ...

References

* Bath, Richard – ''A Scottish Rugby Miscellany'' * McLaren, Bill – Talking of Rugby * Massie, Allan ''A Portrait of Scottish Rugby'' (Polygon, Edinburgh; ) Scottish rugby union players Scotland international rugby union players British & Irish Lions rugby union players from Scotland Edinburgh Academicals rugby union players {{Scotland-rugbyunion-bio-stub