Alex Laing (rugby union)

In their appraisal of him, the Otago Witness also said that he was "a good dribbler and a splendid tackler and is a very dangerous man near the goal line.

Along with the rest of the tour party, they were found not to have contravened the rules and in late November 1888 they returned to Hawick, apparently to a hero’s welcome.

Laing emigrated in November 1889[5] to Buffalo, Wyoming, where he and Willie Burnet set up a successful sheep farming ranch.

[7] Laing was naturalized as a citizen of USA in November 1898 before the District Court of Sheridan County, Wyoming.

By 1920 he had lived uninterruptedly in buffalo for 31 years where he had established himself as a stock grower, specializing in sheep, although in 1920 he did apply to import into the USA a shipment of pure bred cattle from Scotland.