Douglas Elliot, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
TweetDouglas Elliot
Scottish rugby union player
Date of Birth: 18-Apr-1923
Place of Birth: Scotland, United Kingdom
Date of Death: 12-Mar-2005
Profession: rugby union player
Nationality: United Kingdom
Zodiac Sign: Aries 
About Douglas Elliot
- Douglas Elliot (18 April 1923 – 12 March 2005) also known as W.I.D.
- Elliot and Doug(i.e.) Elliot was a Scottish international rugby union player, who played for Scotland.
- He was capped 29 times for Scotland between 1947–54.
- He was never dropped, but did spend at least six matches away due to injuries including the whole 1953 seasons.
- He was six feet three inches and over fourteen stone.He was a backrow forward, and has also been inducted to the Scottish Sports Hall of Fame. He was one of the few Scottish players to escape untarnished by the 44-0 defeat by South Africa during the period.
- 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.Allan Massie talking of the 1950s, said: "Elliot was my first Rugby hero, and for a long time in the Fifties, he was the only one a Scots boy could have...
- the Scottish sides he played in, especially in the Fifties, gave him little chance to display his attacking abilities.
- All the same, match reports of the time make frequent mention of Elliot bursting from the line-out to run thirty yards...
- He was undoubtedly the nearest thing to a forward in the classic All Black mould that Scotland produced in the twenty years after the war, for he was fast also, possessed all the basic skills, and breathed aggression.
- It was fitting that almost his last game for Scotland was against the All Blacks in 1954, when he captained the side that held the tourists to a single penalty goal."Bill McLaren remembers in 1947 going for a Scotland trial, and playing at the back of the line-out, "the only time the ball was thrown anywhere near there and I got it I found myself enmeshed in a vice-like grip.
- The feeling was of two iron bands imprisoning my arms.
- The bands belonging to Douglas Elliot, one of the greatest Scottish wing-forwards, whose strength had been developed in his every-day life as a son of the soil.
- I was much impressed by the form of temporary paralysis he imposed on my arms and it did not surprise me that he remained Scotland's most capped wing-forward with 29 appearances until John Jeffrey gained his 30th cap in the second Test against the All Blacks in Auckland in June 1990."
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