Douglas Schulze
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5 March 1881
| Born | Douglas Gordon Schulze 5 March 1881 Glasgow, Scotland | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Died | 17 May 1956 (aged 75) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| School | Fettes College | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Douglas Schulze (5 March 1881 – 17 May 1956) was a Scotland international rugby union player. He played as a Full Back.[1]
Amateur career
He initially played for Glasgow Academicals and Fettes College at school and then played for Edinburgh Wanderers.[2]
Schulze played for Oxford University when he moved to study there.[3]
In 1904 he was listed as playing for Manchester.[4] This was the university side. He moved there to study to become a teacher.[5]
He then played for London Scottish, Dartmouth Naval College and Northampton Saints.[6]
Provincial career
He played for Anglo-Scots against South of Scotland District on 24 December 1904.[4] He was hailed as the Scottish Find of the season, by the Illustrated Police News, seemingly oblivious to Schulze's Scottish roots:[7]
A Scottish Find. D. G. Schulze, the Manchester back, is being hailed as the find the Scottish trial season, and the critics north of the Tweed are beginning to regard him as possible International candidate. Schulze’s Scottish qualifications may or may not consist solely of his Fettes connection, but at all events at that famous nursery of the game he played back in a team which contained the elder Sivright and L. M. McLeod.
While in Manchester, he played for Northern Universities.[8]
He played for Anglo-Scots against South of Scotland District on 22 December 1906.[9]
He played for Provinces District against Cities District on 12 January 1907.[10]
He played for Provinces District against Cities District on 16 January 1909.[11]
International career
Schulze was capped 13 times for Scotland from 1905 to 1911.[12]