| Birth name | Graham Tullis Ross | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Date of birth | 5 July 1928 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Place of birth | Edinburgh, Scotland | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Date of death | 13 February 2009 (aged 80) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Place of death | Edinburgh, Scotland | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| School | George Watsons College | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Graham Ross (5 July 1928 – 13 February 2009) was a Scotland international rugby union footballer, who played as a fly-half. [1]
Rugby union career
Amateur career
Ross played for Watsonians. [2]
He also played for Edinburgh Academicals and Wasps. [3]
Provincial career
Ross played for Edinburgh District. He played in Scottish Inter-District Championship. He played in the 1954–55 season. [4]
He played for the Co-Optimists. [5]
International career
He was capped for Scotland four times in 1954. [6]
Business career
Ross trained in the Scottish Hotel School and then worked in the Savoy Hotel in London and then in Switzerland. [7]
He joined McVities Guest in 1955 as a Catering Director. [7]
This was taken over by Rank Hovis MacDougall in 1963. Ross worked for them before setting up his own company Ross's Restaurants. [7]
He sold the company to United Biscuits in 1975. [7]
He became the Managing Director of Crawford Catering Company. [7]
In 1981 he worked as an Executive Director of Scottish Business in the Community. Ross set up 47 Local Enterprise trusts around Scotland creating jobs. [7]
He received an OBE in 1990. [5]
References
- ^ "Graham Tullis Ross".
- ^ The Essential History of Rugby Union: Scotland. Nick Oswald and John Griffiths.
- ^ "Graham Ross And Oliver Turnbull - Scottish Rugby Union".
- ^ "The Glasgow Herald - Google News Archive Search".
- ^ a b "Graham Ross".
- ^ "Rugby Union - ESPN Scrum - Statsguru - Player analysis - Graham Ross - Test matches".
- ^ a b c d e f "A natural ability at rugby capped Graham Ross's career".
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- 1928 births
- 2009 deaths
- Scottish rugby union players
- Scotland international rugby union players
- Watsonians RFC players
- Edinburgh District (rugby union) players
- Rugby union players from Edinburgh
- Co-Optimist Rugby Club players
- Edinburgh Academicals rugby union players
- Wasps RFC players
- Rugby union fly-halves
- Scottish rugby union biography stubs