Английская Википедия:Frans ten Bos
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Frans Herman ten Bos (21 April 1937 – 1 September 2016)[1] was a Scottish rugby union footballer. He played for Шаблон:Nrut as a lock in the 1960s,[2] and was capped seventeen times.[3]
Ten Bos attended Fettes College in Edinburgh,[3] where he was introduced to the game, and later played for Oxford University RFC and London Scottish FC.[2]
Ten Bos was controversially dropped before the Scotland-Шаблон:Nrut game in Dublin in 1960, because he was recovering from an injury.[4] Yet according to Bill McLaren, "he took part in all the preparatory activities and pronounced himself as fit to play. He certainly gave it 100 per cent during a vigorous session." Yet Alf Wilson, chairman of the selectors, did not think so, and he was replaced by Oliver Grant of Hawick. McLaren continues: "there was a feeling that ten Bos had been unfairly treated and that the lad himself was hurt and distressed by the decision to leave him out."[4]
Notably, ten Bos scored a try against Шаблон:Nrut in Cardiff, in the 1962 match there, which resulted in Scotland's first victory against Wales in an away game in thirty five years; the score was 8-3 to Scotland.[5]
A famous story involving ten Bos and Hugh McLeod is told by Bill McLaren. On the evening before the 1963 game between Шаблон:Nrut and Шаблон:Nrut at Colombes in Paris, Hugh McLeod and Bill McLaren were out having a meal together and bumped into ten Bos near a cafe.[6] Hugh McLeod took Ten Bos aside, and told him bluntly:
- "Frans, ye think ye're a guid forrit [forward] 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 [tomorrow] and ah'd chuck them right ower the bloody stand."[6]
Scotland later won the game 11-6, rare for an away game.[6]
Ten Bos tapped McLaren on the shoulder as they left the cafe, and said, "You know, I'd follow him anywhere."[6]
He later became Chairman of Henderson Strata Investments.[3]
He is profiled in the August, 1973 edition of Rugby World.[7]
He died on 1 September 2016 at the age of 79.[8]
References and sources
Printed and Electronic Sources
- McLaren, Bill Talking of Rugby (1991, Stanley Paul, London Шаблон:ISBN),
- Massie, Allan A Portrait of Scottish Rugby (Polygon, Edinburgh; Шаблон:ISBN)
- Distinguished Pupils on Fettes.com
Footnotes
- ↑ Frans Bos rugby profile Scrum.com
- ↑ 2,0 2,1 Massie, p173
- ↑ 3,0 3,1 3,2 Шаблон:Cite web
- ↑ 4,0 4,1 McLaren, p90
- ↑ McLaren, p122
- ↑ 6,0 6,1 6,2 6,3 McLaren, p123
- ↑ Шаблон:Cite web
- ↑ ten Bos.-Frans H.
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