Mark Coxon Morrison

British Lions & Scotland international rugby union player

Rugby player
Mark Coxon Morrison
Birth nameMark Coxon Morrison
Date of birth(1877-04-02)2 April 1877
Place of birthDalmeny, Scotland
Date of death10 May 1945(1945-05-10) (aged 68)
Place of deathLongniddry, Scotland
SchoolRoyal High School, Edinburgh
Occupation(s)Farmer
Rugby union career
Position(s) Forward
Amateur team(s)
Years Team Apps (Points)
- Royal HSFP
Leicester Tigers		 ()
Provincial / State sides
Years Team Apps (Points)
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International career
Years Team Apps (Points)
1896-1904
1903		 Scotland
British and Irish Lions		 23
3		 (0)
(0)
55th President of the Scottish Rugby Union
In office
1934–1935
Preceded byJohn MacGill
Succeeded byWilliam Patrick Scott

Mark Coxon Morrison (2 April 1877 – 10 May 1945)[1] was a Scottish international rugby union footballer who captained both Scotland and the British and Irish Lions.

Rugby Union career

Amateur career

Morrison played for Royal HSFP.[2]

He played two games for Leicester, one in 1898 and one in 1902.[3]

Provincial career

Morrison played for Edinburgh District and played in the Inter-City matches against Glasgow District.[2]

International career

He played for Scotland twenty three times between 1896 and 1904, and captained the team fifteen times, a record which stood until the era of Arthur Smith, sixty years later.[4]

He first played for Scotland against Wales in 1896, while a teenager playing for Royal HSFP.[4] He continued to play for Scotland until 1904, and captained them a total of 15 times.[4] With Scotland he won three Home Nations Championship with them in 1901, 1903 and 1904. Two of those Championship victories were Triple Crown wins (1901 and 1903).[4]

He was chosen to captain the British and Irish Lions on the 1903 British Lions tour to South Africa. The Lions lost the Test series 1–0 with two drawn. In 2002 he was inducted into the Scottish Sports Hall of Fame.

Jimmy Sinclair, the Springbok forward described Morrison as "a real roughouse of a man, and a great leader."[4]

Administrative career

He was the 55th President of the Scottish Rugby Union, in post from 1934 to 1935.[5]

Outside of rugby

Mark Coxon Morrison was born to John Morrison (1839-1923) and Jane Begg (1846-1911) in Dalmeny, West Lothian. He was a farmer by trade.[4]

References

  1. ^ Mark Morrison rugby profile Scrum.com
  2. ^ a b "The Glasgow Herald - Google News Archive Search".
  3. ^ Farmer, Stuart; Hands, David. Tigers - Official history of Leicester Football Club. The Rugby DevelopmentFoundation. p. 435. ISBN 978-0-9930213-0-5.
  4. ^ a b c d e f Bath, p150
  5. ^ "Scottish Rugby Record 2018/19" (PDF). Scottish Rugby.
Sources
  1. Bath, Richard (ed.) The Complete Book of Rugby (Seven Oaks Ltd, 1997 ISBN 1-86200-013-1)

External links

  • Mark Coxon Morrison at the Scottish Sports Hall of Fame
  • Mark Morrison at ESPNscrum
  • "The names in the Hall of Fame". BBC. 30 November 2002. Retrieved 21 July 2008.
  • "1903 South Africa". lionsrugby.com. Archived from the original on 21 March 2009. Retrieved 21 July 2008.
  • "Six Nations roll of honour". BBC. 29 January 2004. Retrieved 21 July 2008.
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Notes
Note 1: Robert Seddon died on tour after a boating accident. Andrew Stoddart became captain for the remainder of the tour.

Note 2: Matthew Mullineux decided that after losing the first test that he should withdraw from further test matches, handing on field captaincy to Frank Stout, but remained tour captain.
Note 3: David Bedell-Sivright was injured during the first test. Teddy Morgan took over captaincy on the field but Bedell-Sivright remained tour captain.
Note 4: The team that John Raphael captained was not selected by the four Home Nations governing body, but had been organised by Oxford University and billed as the English Rugby Union team. However, it was considered the Combined British team by Argentina because it also included three Scots.
Note 5: Jack Jones was captain for the first test, but Tommy Smyth remained the tour captain.
Note 6: Bleddyn Williams captained in the third and fourth tests v New Zealand and the first test v Australia.
Note 7: Cliff Morgan captained in the third test.
Note 8: David Watkins captained in the second and foruth tests v New Zealand.
Note 9: Michael Owen captained the Lions in the first tour game, the test vs. Argentina in Cardiff. Brian O'Driscoll was injured at the beginning of the first test against New Zealand. Gareth Thomas replaced him as tour captain.
Note 10: Sam Warburton was injured in the second test. Alun Wyn Jones replaced him as captain for the third test.
Note 11: Tour captain Sam Warburton was named on the bench for the first test. Peter O'Mahony was the captain on the field.

Note 12: Tour captain Alun Wyn Jones left the squad for 17 days due to an injury in the first warm-up match, and was replaced by Conor Murray temporarily.
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