Kenneth Grant MacLeod (2 February 1888 – 7 March 1967)Scrum dot com profile was a Scottish international rugby union player,Massie, p17 as well as a golfer, soccer player and cricketer.Massie, p18 He was capped ten times for between 1905 and 1908.Bath, p137
MacLeod was inducted into the Scottish Sports Hall of Fame in March 2010.
Career He was only seventeen when first capped for against , and was at Fettes College. He then went to Cambridge University and played for their rugby team, winning nine more international caps at the time. He retired at twenty one at the urging of his father, because his two elder brothers had been seriously injured playing rugby.
Allan Massie writes:
MacLeod's club was Cambridge University RFC.
He was the brother of Lewis MacLeod who was also capped for Scotland.
Other sports MacLeod also played cricket for Cambridge University, Lancashire, and other teams. He appeared in 94 first-class matches as a righthanded batsman who bowled right arm fast. He scored 3,458 runs with a highest score of 131 among six first-class centuries and held 108 catches. He took 103 wickets with a best analysis of six for 29.Kenneth MacLeod at CricketArchive
MacLeod played association football for Manchester City F.C. He also later won the Amateur Golf Championship of Natal.
See also List of Scottish cricket and rugby union players
References Bath, Richard (ed.) The Scotland Rugby Miscellany (Vision Sports Publishing Ltd, 2007 ) Massie, Allan A Portrait of Scottish Rugby (Polygon, Edinburgh; )
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