William Dallas Allardice (4 November 1919 — 4 June 2003) was a Scottish international rugby union player. He also played association football for Huntly FC as a centre-forward.[1]
| Full name | William Dallas Allardice | ||||||||||||||||
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| Date of birth | 4 November 1919 | ||||||||||||||||
| Place of birth | Glasgow, Scotland | ||||||||||||||||
| Date of death | 4 June 2003 (aged 83) | ||||||||||||||||
| Place of death | Dundee, Scotland | ||||||||||||||||
| School | Gordon School Aberdeen Grammar School | ||||||||||||||||
| Occupation(s) | Teacher | ||||||||||||||||
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Born in Glasgow, Allardice attended Gordon School in Huntly, having moved there with his family at age five. He completed his schooling as a boarder at Aberdeen Grammar School.[2]
Allardice served with the London Scottish 1st Battalion in Norway during the early stage of World War II, before training as a commando and being posted to Libya as part of the Long Range Desert Group. His unit suffered heavily casualties in Tobruk, with Allardice one of only three to survive. He was captured by German troops and made a prisoner of war in Italy, from which he escaped with a fellow Scottish soldier. They took refuge under the care of pentecostals in a mountainous area near Rome and remained there until the liberation of Italy.[2]
A diminutive scrum-half, Allardice played his rugby with Aberdeen Grammar School Former Pupils and was capped eight times for Scotland between 1947 and 1949. He made his debut against the touring Wallabies at Murrayfield in 1947, then played in all of Scotland's 1948 and 1949 Five Nations fixtures.[2]
Allardice had a trophy named after him for an annual fixture between Aberdeen Grammar and Dundee High School.[3]
See also
editReferences
edit- ^ "Allardice In Rugby Match". The Press and Journal. Aberdeen. 17 October 1946.
- ^ a b c "William Allardice". The Scotsman. 20 June 2003.
- ^ Law, Danny (7 November 2014). "Aberdeen Grammar aiming to retain Dallas Allardice Trophy". The Press and Journal. Aberdeen.
External links
edit- Dallas Allardice at ESPNscrum