Nairn Alexander MacEwan (12 December 1941 – 31 May 2018) was a Scottish international rugby player and coach.
[1][2] He played at flanker,[1] and was capped twenty times for Scotland between 1971 and 1975, including a try in the match against England in 1972.
"[4] Bill McLaren notes that Bill Dickinson included MacEwan in "one of the most formidable packs of all time", alongside the Scottish rugby greats like Ian McLauchlan, Sandy Carmichael, Alistair McHarg, Gordon Brown, Peter Brown and Rodger Arneil.
], England coach John Burgess made the notorious comment, I've seen this Scottish pack rucking.
[5] MacEwan became the second national coach for Scotland in 1977 (a position which was unpaid at the time), succeeding Bill Dickinson, but was unsuccessful over the next three seasons—Scotland only won one game in this period.