Norm Suddon Explained

Norm Suddon
Birth Name:Norman Suddon
Birth Date:28 June 1943
Birth Place:Cavers, Scotland
Weight:90kg (200lb)
Ru Position:Prop
Ru Amateuryears:-
Ru Amateurclubs:Hawick
Ru Provinceyears:-
Ru Nationalyears:1965-70
Ru Nationalcaps:13
Ru Nationalpoints:(0)

Norm Suddon (28 June 1943 – 18 April 2022) was a Scotland international rugby union player. He played as a Prop.[1]

Rugby Union career

Amateur career

Suddon played for Hawick.[2] He was deemed a protege of Hugh McLeod, a long-time Hawick prop.[3]

Provincial career

Suddon played for a Scottish Border XV in their October 1962 matches against Durham County and Royal Air Force Rugby Union; both warm-up matches to help selection to the South district side.[4] [5]

He played for South of Scotland District.[6]

He played for the Whites Trial side in their match against the Blues Trial side on 9 February 1963.[7] After impressing he then turned out for the Blues Trial side against the Whites Trial side in their final match that season on 2 March 1963.[7]

Suddon played for Scotland Probables in their match against Scotland Possibles on 31 December 1966. However after a poor display by the Probables front row, Suddon was deemed a 'scapegoat' by the Aberdeen Press and Journal when he was left out of the Scotland international team to meet France in January 1967.[8]

He was named for Scotland Probables in their match against Scotland Possibles on 9 January 1971.[9] However he had to withdraw due to a knee injury that he sustained in his club match prior to this. Suddon had to have surgery on his cartillage.[10]

International career

Suddon was capped 13 times for Scotland.[11]

He also played in a combined Scotland-Ireland team that played against England-Wales on 14 October 1972 to mark the SRU centenary.[12]

Later life and death

Suddon worked as a hosiery worker in Hawick.[3] He died on 18 April 2022, at the age of 78.[13]

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Norman Suddon. ESPN scrum.
  2. Scotland. The Essential History of Rugby Union. Nick Oswald and John Griffiths. Headline Publishing. 2003.
  3. Web site: Register. subscription. British Newspaper Archive.
  4. Web site: The Glasgow Herald - Google News Archive Search. news.google.com.
  5. Web site: The Glasgow Herald - Google News Archive Search. news.google.com.
  6. Web site: The Glasgow Herald - Google News Archive Search. news.google.com.
  7. Web site: The Glasgow Herald - Google News Archive Search. news.google.com.
  8. Web site: Register. subscription. British Newspaper Archive.
  9. Web site: Register. subscription. British Newspaper Archive.
  10. Web site: Register. subscription. British Newspaper Archive.
  11. Web site: Rugby Union - ESPN Scrum - Statsguru - Player analysis - Norm Suddon - Test matches. ESPN scrum.
  12. Web site: Register. subscription. British Newspaper Archive.
  13. News: Norman Suddon, Scottish rugby player . 13 May 2022 . The Scotsman . 13 May 2022.