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George Thomson was a Scottish rugby union player. He was the 96th President of the Scottish Rugby Union.




Rugby Union career






= Amateur career

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He played for Watsonians. He played sevens for Watsonians in the 1946 Jed-Forest Sevens.
He played for a Scottish Services XV in 1944.




= Administrative career

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Thomson became the 96th President of the Scottish Rugby Union. He served the standard one year from 1982 to 1983.




Military career


He was a sub-Lieutenant in the Second World War. He won a Distinguished Service Cross for his work on Arctic convoys.




Death


Thomson died in 2005.
Jim Telfer described Thomson as 'the father of (rugby union) coaching in Scotland'. He went to say:

We lost a great man when George died in 2005. It was his enthusiasm of developing a professional, cutting edge to rugby coaching that inspired me. Intriguingly he was fanatical about the development of the ruck as part of the Scottish armoury and, believe it or not, occasionally I had to dampen down his enthusiasm.




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