William Copeland Wood Murdoch (3 October 1914, Old Kilpatrick – October 1987, HelensburghPlayer profile on scrum.com. Retrieved 15 February 2010) was a Scottish international rugby union player who played at full-back.
Rugby Union career
Amateur career
Murdoch played for Hillhead HSFP
Provincial career
Murdoch played for Glasgow District
International career
He was capped a total of nine times, but there was an extremely long hiatus in his career due to the Second World War – he gained his first cap in 1935, and his last in 1948.Cotton, p75 He gained four caps in the 1947–48 season. This gives him one of the longest international careers on record.Jones, pp56,57 Only he and W.B. Young were capped on either side of the War.
Referee career
In later life, he became a referee.
References
Sources
Bath, Richard (ed.) The Scotland Rugby Miscellany (Vision Sports Publishing Ltd, 2007 ) Cotton, Fran (Ed.) (1984) The Book of Rugby Disasters & Bizarre Records. Compiled by Chris Rhys. London. Century Publishing. Jones, J.R. Encyclopedia of Rugby Union Football (Robert Hale, London, 1976 ) Massie, Allan A Portrait of Scottish Rugby (Polygon, Edinburgh; )