| William Young | |
| Birth Name: | William Brewitt Young |
| Birth Date: | 7 May 1916 |
| Birth Place: | Ardrossan, Scotland |
| Death Place: | Sevenoaks, England |
| Ru Position: | No. 8 |
| Ru Amateuryears: | - |
| Ru Amateurclubs: | King's College Hospital London Scottish |
| Ru Provinceyears: | 1938 |
| Ru Province: | Scotland Probables |
| Ru Nationalyears: | 1937-48 1949-50 |
| Ru Nationalcaps: | 10 3 |
| Ru Nationalpoints: | (3) |
William Young (7 May 1916 - 25 April 2013)[1] was born in Ardrossan and was a Scotland international rugby union player. He later played for the representative East Africa multi-national side.[2]
Young played rugby union for King's College Hospital before then playing for London Scottish.[3]
He was supposed to play for the Scotland Probables in the first trial match of season 1937-38. The match due on 18 December 1937 was called off due to frost despite the contingency of straw being placed on The Greenyards pitch at Melrose. He did however turn out for the Scotland Probables side for the second and final trial match of that season, on 15 January 1938.[4]
He was capped ten times for between 1937–48 and three times for East Africa between 1949 and 1950. Along with Maurice Daly of, he is one of only two people to have been capped by a major rugby playing nation and by East Africa.
Along with W.C.W. Murdoch, he was one of only two Scottish players to be capped on either side of World War II, giving him one of the longest international careers on record.[5] John "Jack" Heaton[6] and Thomas Arthur "Tommy" Kemp[7] also achieved this feat for .
He attended City of London School and studied medicine at St Catharine's College, Cambridge.[1] and became a doctor after he finished playing rugby.
Young was the son of Alexander Robert Young (born c1885 Govan, Lanarkshire Scotland) and Christina Leiper (born c1883 Lanark, Lanarkshire).