Gary Armstrong OBE (born 30 September 1966, in Edinburgh) is a former Scotland international rugby union player.
[3] Gary Armstrong had succeeded a fellow British and Irish Lion and Scotland player, Roy Laidlaw, as scrum half at Jed-Forest.
[6] He joined Newcastle Falcons in 1995/96,[3] and his appetite for the fray was seen to best advantage when the club won England's Allied Dunbar Premiership title in 1998, featuring in all 22 matches of the season.
Armstrong made his full senior international debut in 1988, in a game against Australia building to their 1991 world cup victory.
[2][3] Richard Bath writes of him: It was Armstrong's dart to the blind side that provided the spark opening the opportunity leading to Tony Stanger's try.
[2] He was scrum half in Scotland's 1990 Grand Slam win and his country's run to the 1991 rugby world cup semi final.
He then joined the 50-cap club when he led Scotland to victory in the World Cup play-off match against Samoa that October.
Armstrong captained Scotland to victory in the 1999 Five Nations and to a quarter final place in the same year's rugby world cup.
He was skipper throughout the previous two Five Nations Championships and was also captain on Scotland’s 1999 visit to South Africa, when he played in all four matches and scored the opening try of the tour in the victory over Border.
Points: 21 (5 tries) (Rewritten from the SRU website - used with permission) He was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 2000 New Year Honours.