| Fletcher Buchanan | |
| Birth Name: | Fletcher Gordon Buchanan |
| Birth Place: | Glasgow, Scotland |
| Birth Date: | 23 December 1889 |
| Death Place: | Dollar, Clackmannanshire, Scotland |
| Ru Position: | Centre |
| Ru Amateurclubs: | Kelvinside Academicals Oxford University Kelvinside Academicals |
| Ru Provinceyears: | 1911 |
| Ru Province: | Whites Trial |
| Ru Nationalteam: | Scotland |
| Ru Nationalyears: | 1910-11 |
| Ru Nationalcaps: | 3 |
| Ru Nationalpoints: | (0) |
| University: | Oxford University |
Fletcher Buchanan (23 December 1889 – 24 May 1960) was a Scotland international rugby union player. He played as a Centre.[1]
Buchanan played for Kelvinside Academicals.[2]
On studying at Oxford University he then played for Oxford University.[3]
After studying at Oxford, he returned to Glasgow and played for Kelvinside Academicals once more. He captained the side.
The Scottish Referee, 20 November 1911, said this of Buchanan:[4]
one of the best three-quarters who played for Oxford last season has improved since he returned to the land of his birth, but it is a fact, and to-day the Kelvinside captain is one of the finest players behind the scrummage we have in Scotland. His displays in recent matches have shattered the opinion that he was only a fair weather sailor. He is more than that; he is a most excellent defensive player, besides being an aggressive artist of the premier type - Buchanan is a great exponent of the carrying game, and we hope this season to find him adorned with that emblem which only falls to the lot of a selected few.
He played for the Whites Trial side against the Blues Trial side on 21 January 1911, while still with Oxford University.[5]
He played for Scotland three times, selected in 1910 and 1911.[6]