Record

CodeDS/UK/1903
Dates1932-2014
Person NameMcLeod; Hugh Ferns (1932-2014); OBE; Scottish rugby union player
SurnameMcLeod
ForenamesHugh Ferns
TitleOBE
EpithetScottish rugby union player
ActivityProp, played for Hawick RFC, Barbarian FC, Scotland (1954-1962, 40 caps, 0 points) and British and Irish Lions (1959, 6 caps, 0 points). Also toured with 1955 Lions. Later President Hawick RFC. Story told by Bill McLaren. On evening before Scotland and France at Colombes, Paris, 1963, Hugh McLeod and Bill McLaren were out having a meal together and bumped into Frans ten Bos who invited them to have a coffee ... McLeod looked the 'giant Frans straight in the eye "Frans, ye think ye're a guid forrit but really ye're jist a big lump o' potted meat ... If ah was half yer size I'd pick up the first two Frenchman that looked at me the morn and ah'd chuck them right ower the bloody stand." Ten Bos tapped McLaren on the shoulder as they left the cafe, and said, "You know, I'd follow him anywhere." Bill McLaren 'Talking of Rugby'. Named in Bill McLaren's World XV. Member of Scottish Borders Sports Hall of Fame.
RelationshipsUncle of Colin Telfer q.v.
Archive Catalogue
RefNoTitle
BML/1/2/4Big sheet and bundle, Scotland versus Wales, Murrayfield, 2 February 1957
BML/1/4/1Big sheet and bundle, France versus Scotland, Au Stade Olympique De Colombes, Paris, 8 January 1955.
BML/2/2/6Big sheet and bundle, Scotland versus Australia, Murrayfield, 15 February 1958
BML/1/1/6Big sheet and bundle, England versus Scotland, Twickenham, 21 March 1959
BML/1/1/3Big sheet and bundle, Scotland versus England, Murrayfield, 17 March 1956
BML/1/4/4Big sheet and bundle, Scotland versus France, Murrayfield, 11 January 1958
BML/6/1/92Big sheet, Hawick versus Stewart's Melville FP, [Mansfield Park, Hawick?], 12 January 1985
BML/1/4/2Big sheet and bundle, Scotland versus France, Murrayfield, 14 January 1956
BML/1/2/5Big sheet and bundle, Wales versus Scotland, Cardiff Arms Park, 1 February 1958
BML/1/2/1Big sheet and bundle, Wales versus Scotland, Swansea, 10 April 1954
BML/6/1/91Big sheet and bundle, Kelso versus Hawick, Poynder Park, Kelso, 17 November 1984.
BML/6/1/10Big sheet and bundle, Scottish XV versus Combined Services, Murrayfield, 14 December 1960
BML/1/2/7Big sheet and bundle, Wales versus Scotland, Cardiff Arms Park, 6 February 1960
BML/6/1/87Big sheet and bundle, Stewart's Melville FP versus Hawick, Inverleith, Edinburgh, 26 November 1983
BML/1/3/4Big sheet and bundle, Ireland versus Scotland, Lansdowne Road, 1 March 1958.
BML/1/3/6Big sheet and bundle, Ireland versus Scotland, Lansdowne Road, 27 February 1960
BML/1/2/2Big sheet and bundle, Scotland versus Wales, Murrayfield, 5 February 1955
BML/1/3/2Big sheet and bundle, Ireland versus Scotland, Lansdowne Road, 25 February 1956.
BML/1/3/8Big sheet and bundle, Ireland versus Scotland, Lansdowne Road, 24 February 1962.
BML/1/3/5Big sheet and bundle, Scotland versus Ireland, Murrayfield, 28 February 1959.
BML/1/1/4Big sheet and bundle, England versus Scotland, Twickenham, 16 March 1957
BML/1/4/7Big sheet and bundle, France versus Scotland, Colombes, Paris, 7 January 1961
BML/1/4/8Big sheet and bundle, Scotland versus France, Murrayfield, 13 January 1962
BML/1/3/3Big sheet and bundle, Scotland versus Ireland, Murrayfield, 23 February 1957
BML/1/1/9Big sheet and bundle, Scotland versus England, Murrayfield, 17 March 1962
BML/6/1/7Big sheet and bundle, Glasgow versus British Isles, [late 1950s]
BML/6/1/84Big sheet and bundle, Hawick versus Heriot's FP, Mansfield Park, Hawick, 22 October 1983
BML/6/3/3Big sheet and bundle, Edinburgh versus South, Murrayfield, 14 January 1961
BML/1/2/6Big sheet and bundle, Scotland versus Wales, Murrayfield, 7 February 1959
BML/2/16/10Big sheet and bundle, Scotland versus South Africa, Murrayfield, 21 January 1961
BML/1/1/2Big sheet and bundle, England versus Scotland, Twickenham, 19 March 1955
BML/6/1/13Big sheet and bundle, Stewart's College FP versus Hawick, Inverleith, Edinburgh, 22 December 1962.
BML/6/3/2Big sheet and bundle, Glasgow versus South, Westerlands, Glasgow, 15 October 1960
BML/2/2/3Big sheet and bundle, Australia versus South of Scotland, Mansfield Park, Hawick, 7 December 1957
BML/1/4/6Big sheet and bundle, Scotland versus France, Murrayfield, 9 January 1960
BML/2/16/7Big sheet and bundle, Scottish Districts XV versus South African Universities (The Sables), Murrayfield, Edinburgh, 22 December 1956
BML/1/4/3Big sheet and bundle, France versus Scotland, Au Stade Olympique De Colombes, Paris, 12 January 1957
BML/1/2/3Big sheet and bundle, Wales versus Scotland, Cardiff Arms Park, 4 February 1956
BML/1/1/7Big sheet and bundle, Scotland versus England, Murrayfield, 19 March 1960
BML/6/1/12Big sheet and bundle, Kelso Select XV versus International XV, Poynder Park, Kelso, 25 October 1961
BML/6/1/68Big sheet and bundle, Hawick versus West of Scotland, Mansfield Park, Hawick, 24 October 1981
BML/1/1/5Big sheet and bundle, England versus Scotland, Murrayfield, 15 March 1958
BML/1/2/8Big sheet and bundle, Scotland versus Wales, Murrayfield, 11 February 1961
BML/2/16/9Big sheet and bundle, South Africa versus South of Scotland, Mansfield Park, Hawick, 19 November 1960
BML/6/1/89Big sheet and bundle, Hawick versus Melrose, Mansfield Park, Hawick, 10 March 1984
BML/2/16/5Programme, South Africa versus South of Scotland, Mansfield Park, Hawick, 19 January 1952 [digital copies available]
BML/1/4/5Big sheet and bundle, France versus Scotland, Au Stade Olympique De Colombes, Paris, 10 January 1959
BML/1/3/7Big sheet and bundle, Scotland versus Ireland, Murrayfield, 25 February 1961
BML/2/15/1Big sheet and bundle, Scotland versus Rest, Murrayfield, 30 December 1961.
BML/6/1/85Big sheet and bundle, Gala versus Hawick, October 1983.
BML/1/1/1Big sheet, Scotland versus England, Murrayfield, 20 March 1954
BML/1/1/8Big sheet and bundle, England versus Scotland, Twickenham, 18 March 1961
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