Douglas Elliot

[4] He was a backrow forward, and has also been inducted to the Scottish Sports Hall of Fame.

[3] He was one of the few Scottish players to escape untarnished by the 44-0 defeat by South Africa during the period.

[3] Elliot was the only Scot to be named by the South African rugby correspondent R.K. Stent amongst the best players who had faced the 1951-2 Springbok tour to the British Isles.

[8] Allan Massie talking of the 1950s, said: Bill McLaren remembers in 1947 going for a Scotland trial, and playing at the back of the line-out, Elliot was invited to play with the British and Irish Lions, but could not afford to spend six months away from his farm; his offer to pay for his flights (the Lions generally went by boat in those days.

)[3] The amateur era was quite different, in both ethos and time, but as Elliot once told Bill McLaren, farmwork could take a lot of time too: McLaren says when selecting his all-time Scotland XV that "I believe, for instance, that Douglas Elliot (Edinburgh Academicals)... would still have made massive impact in the modern game although it might have irked him not a little that he would have to give far more of his time from farming to attend so many squad sessions.