Willie Brydon | |
Birth Date: | 6 November 1915 |
Death Place: | Edinburgh, Scotland |
Position: | Scrum-half |
Repyears1: | 1939 |
Repcaps1: | 1 |
Reppoints1: | 0 |
William Ritchie Crawford Brydon (6 November 1915 — 11 June 1980) was a Scottish international rugby union player.
Brydon was not a regular first XV player for his club Heriot's FP when he gained his solitary Scotland cap in the 1939 Home Nations. His club had favoured E. O. Kollien as their preferred scrum-half since 1935, but Brydon performed well opposite Kollien in the trials, in which he partnered well with fly-half Wilson Shaw.[1] Both Brydon and Shaw were consequently picked as the half-back combination for Scotland's opening match against Wales in Cardiff.[2]
In World War II, Brydon served with the Royal Armoured Corps and was held as a prisoner of war in Germany.[3]