| Born | Peter Sime Douty (1903-10-26)26 October 1903 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Died | 18 July 1948(1948-07-18) (aged 44) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| School | Sedbergh School | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| University | Pembroke College, Cambridge | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Peter Sime Douty (26 October 1903, in Leeds, England – 18 July 1948, in Newton Abbot, Devon) was a Scotland international rugby union player.[1] He played at Scrum Half but could also cover Full Back.
Rugby Union career
Amateur career
He played for Headingley.[2]
He played for Cambridge University when he went to Pembroke College.[3] He often played at Full back for the Cambridge side.[4]
He moved to play for London Scottish.[3]
Provincial career
He played for Scotland Possibles on 27 December 1924.[5]
He played for Yorkshire.[6]
He played for London against Hanover in 1929. He got a knee injury in the match which kept him out of rugby for a year.[7]
International career
He played three times for Scotland; against Wales, Australia and France in the 1927–28 season.[1] He suffered a gash to his head in the Wales match and had to receive medical attention before returning to the field.[8]
He also went on the 1927 British Lions tour to Argentina.
He played for the Barbarians seven times between 1925 and 1927.[9]
Family
He was a grandson of Peter Sime, of the timber merchants Bell and Sime of Dundee.[10] Peter Douty's mother was the daughter of the timber merchant, Jean Martin Sime, born in 1876 from Dundee. She married Caeser Coulston Douty from Bristol.
References
- ^ a b Player profile on scrum.com. Retrieved 7 May 2010
- ^ https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000452/19480721/109/0004
- ^ a b https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0005049/19271213/175/0012
- ^ https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0003212/19241124/212/0011
- ^ https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000452/19241227/253/0005
- ^ https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0005049/19261204/230/0013
- ^ https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000748/19290202/196/0011
- ^ https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000687/19280206/134/0004
- ^ https://www.barbarianfc.co.uk/player/douty-peter-sime/
- ^ https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000563/19480722/038/0004
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