Duncan Paterson
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| Birth name | Duncan Sinclair Paterson | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Date of birth | 27 March 1943 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Place of birth | Galashiels, Scotland | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Date of death | 22 December 2009 (aged 66) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| School | Galashiels Academy | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Notable relative(s) | Chris Paterson | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Duncan Paterson (27 March 1943 – 22 December 2009) was a Scottish rugby union player. He played at scrum-half, for Gala RFC at club level and was capped at international level for Scotland.[1] While he had a short and quiet international career, he served in the administrative offices of the Scottish Rugby Union in the late 1990s.[2]
Paterson earned his first international cap for Scotland against South Africa in December 1969. During the high-point of his career, Paterson started all of his country's matches during the 1971 Five Nations Championship. His most memorable match took place that same year against England at Twickenham Stadium, where the Scots had not won since 1938. With Scotland trailing 5–9 early in the first half, Paterson picked up a loose ball near the centre of the pitch following a line-out, and successfully booted a drop-goal. With about six minutes remaining in the match, however, England held a 15–8 advantage. Paterson, receiving the ball from a ruck, box-kicked the ball down the right-hand touch line, where Billy Steele appeared to knock it on. No knock-on was called however, and in a moment of hesitation by the English backs, Paterson swooped in and dotted the ball down for a try. Scotland went on to win 16–15 on a Peter Brown conversion of Chris Rea's last-minute try. These would be the only points which Duncan Paterson scored for his country.
After the 1971 Calcutta Cup match at Twickenham, Paterson was in the match against England at Murrayfield that next week. The match was the hundredth anniversary of Rugby's first international. Scotland defeated England for 26-6.[3]
