| Malcolm Allan | |||||||||||
| Birth Name: | Malcolm Alexander Allan | ||||||||||
| Birth Date: | 6 April 1900 | ||||||||||
| Birth Place: | Glasgow, Scotland | ||||||||||
| Death Place: | Carlisle, England | ||||||||||
| Ru Position: | Forward | ||||||||||
| Amatyears1: | - | ||||||||||
| Amatteam1: | Glasgow Academicals | ||||||||||
| Provinceyears1: | 1921 | ||||||||||
| Provinceyears2: | 1921 | ||||||||||
| Province1: | Glasgow District | ||||||||||
| Province2: | Scotland Possibles | ||||||||||
| Coachyears1: | - | ||||||||||
| Refereeyears1: | 1931–48 | ||||||||||
| Refereecomps1: | Five Nations Championship | ||||||||||
| Relatives: | David Allan, father | ||||||||||
| School: | The Glasgow Academy | ||||||||||
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Malcolm Allan (6 April 1900 – 1974) was a Scottish rugby union player. He became an international referee and the 67th President of the Scottish Rugby Union.[1]
Allan was captain of Glasgow Academy in 1915–16 and 1916–17. He was captain of the rugby union team and the cricket team.[2]
He played for Glasgow Academicals.[3]
He represented Glasgow District in the 1921 inter-city match.[4]
He played for Scotland Possibles in the final trial match of 1921, scoring a try.[3]
According to The Glasgow Herald it was Allan's lack of pace that denied him a Scotland cap.[5]
Allan was noted as a strict referee. One commentator writing of Allan's refereeing style wrote: ‘so woe betide anybody who persistently breaks the rules’.[5]
He was an international referee. He refereed the Ireland versus Wales match in the 1931 Five Nations Championship.[6] His last international match - the same fixture – was in 1948.[7]
He refereed in the Scottish Unofficial Championship (1936).[8]
On one occasion, when refereeing a match at Netherdale, after hearing taunts from the crowd – he stopped the match and walked over to the crowd and delivered a lecture on the ethics of sportmanship before resuming the game. This caused embarrassment for the Gala officials.[5]
He was a Scottish Rugby Union committee member from 1931[9] and in 1950 he was acting as a selector – along with Herbert Waddell – for the Scotland international team.[10]
He was elected vice president of the Scottish Rugby Union in 1952.[11]
He was president of the Scottish Rugby Union for the period 1953 to 1954.[12]
He played cricket for Glasgow Academicals.[13] [14]
He was best man to Max Simmers on his wedding in 1932.[15]
He worked for the India Tyre factory in Inchinnan.[5]
He later moved to Carlisle where he worked at Morton Sundour Fabrics. During the Second World War he was in the Home Guard; and captained the Home Guard XI cricket team.[5]
His father David Allan played association football for Queen's Park and the Scotland international team.[5]