George McConnell | |
Birth Date: | 1 August 1889 |
Birth Place: | Fanad, County Donegal, Ireland |
Death Place: | Carnoustie, Scotland |
Position: | Forward |
Repyears1: | 1912–13 |
Repcaps1: | 4 |
Reppoints1: | 0 |
George McConnell (1 August 1889 — 24 March 1948) was an Irish international rugby union player.
Born in Fanad, County Donegal, McConnell played rugby with Edinburgh University while studying medicine. He was capped four times as a forward for Ireland across the 1912 and 1913 Five Nations Championships.[1]
McConnell served with the Royal Army Medical Corps in Salonika during World War I.[2]
A doctor, McConnell practised medicine in the Scottish town of Carnoustie, which he moved to in 1919.[1]