Perthshire Rugby Football Club, formerly known as Perthshire Academicals, is a

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History

Founded in 1868, it is one of the oldest rugby clubs in Scotland. Perthshire was a consistently successful club in the third division of the old National League in Scotland until recently. Over the seasons 2003–04, 2004–05 and 2005–06, the club gained successive promotions, reaching Scottish Premiership Division 3 for the first time in the 2006–07 season. They remained in this league until 2012–13 season when they were relegated to Caledonia Regional League 1. Perthshire also put a lot of emphasis into coaching youth players. The club has a development team who coach the youth teams and make regular visits to schools in the area to promote rugby. Perthshire recently launched its centre of excellence, which was the first in the country. In February 2020, the club's then-captain Adam Pattinson, 36, was killed in road accident while riding his bicycle to work (at Craigclowan Preparatory School) on the A912 Perth-to-Muirhead road."‘A big man with an even bigger heart’: Tributes flood in for teacher and rugby star who died in Perthshire crash"
- '' The Courier'', 28 February 2020 North Inch Perth

Honours

* Scottish League Championship, fourth tier ** Champions (1): 2006–07

Notable players

Perthshire has provided Scottish internationalist with the first being Dr R W Irvine and Dr Charles Reid during the 1880s. Welsh captain J A G William played for the club in the early 1950s. Jimmy Greenwood was the club's last international cap. He toured

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. In more recent times Perthshire has provided the Scotland Sevens team with one of their Top Try Scorers. James Fleming played for Perthshire from the age of 7 up until the age of 21. During his time with Perth he picked up the award for Premier 3 Player of the Season in 2008/09. Fleming was a member of the 12-man squad who lifted the London 7s Cup in 2015, where he exhibited is admirable turn of pace and power to score Scotland's first try in 27–26 win over South Africa in the tournament climax. He currently has amassed 555 points for Scotland.

References

External links

Club websiteTennent's Scottish National League 3 (Men's)
– ScottishRugby.org
Tennent's Scottish National League 3 Table
– BBC Sport {{Rugby union in Scotland Rugby clubs established in 1868 Scottish rugby union teams Sport in Perth, Scotland 1868 establishments in Scotland Rugby union in Perth and Kinross