Norman Mair
| Full name | Norman George Robertson Mair | ||||||||||||
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| Date of birth | 7 October 1928 | ||||||||||||
| Place of birth | Edinburgh, Scotland | ||||||||||||
| Date of death | 7 December 2014 (aged 86) | ||||||||||||
| Place of death | Edinburgh, Scotland | ||||||||||||
| School |
Edinburgh Academy Merchiston Castle School |
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| University | University of Edinburgh | ||||||||||||
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| Position | Hooker | ||||||||||||
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| Years | Club / team | ||
| - | Edinburgh University RFC | ||
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| Years | Club / team | Caps | (points) |
| - | Edinburgh District | ||
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| Years | Club / team | Caps | (points) |
| 1951 | Scotland | 4 | (0) |
Norman George Robertson Mair (7 October 1928 – 7 December 2014) was a Scottish international rugby union and cricket player. He later became a journalist for The Scotsman on rugby and golf., and also wrote for Rugby World
He was educated at Merchiston Castle School (1942-1947) and the University of Edinburgh where he played for Edinburgh University RFC.
He was selected for the provincial Edinburgh District side and played in the Scottish Inter-District Championship. He won the title with Edinburgh in the inaugural 1953-54 season and was the championship's top points scorer of that season.
He won four caps for the Scotland national rugby union team in 1951.
He was inducted to the Scottish Rugby Hall of Fame in 2013.
He also played for the Scotland national cricket team.
Mair played for Scotland in 1952. He was capped only once, playing against Worcestershire. He scored four not out in his only innings.
Bill McLaren rated Mair as one of the best rugby journalists that Scotland produced:
Writing of the Australian player Mark Ella, he once said: "Ella has hands so adhesive that when he fumbled a ball against Scotland (in 1984) you would not have been surprised to see those Australians of the appropriate religious persuasion cross themselves"
Mair was always outspoken in his opinions. In the early fifties, for example, criticising the large number of new caps in each game in 1953 and 1954, he said that he consider the "inhabitants of lunatic asylums... had a fair grievance while the S.R.U. selectors walked around free and uncertified."
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