Jimmy Ross was a Scottish rugby union player.
The Glasgow Herald told of the time when Ross - with a SRU party of dignities - was with their sports journalist travelling to watch Scotland play France.
The party was directed by the French police the wrong way up a one-way street to speed their progress to the Parc des Princes.
The journalist recalled Ross's quip: 'If they had got their army to the Front this quickly, the course of history might have been changed'.
The obituary noted that Ross was a journalist's delight: a man with an opinion on everything; and his best stories were told against himself.