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Jan 31, 1858 Died on 07 Mar 1936 (aged 78)
Scottish rugby union player
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About Ninian Finlay
- Ninian Jamieson Finlay (31 January 1858-7 March 1936) was a Scottish international rugby player.
- He was capped nine times for Scotland between 1875–81, and is generally considered to be the youngest player ever to be capped for Scotland - he was seventeen years and thirty six days old when he was capped against England on 8 March 1875.
- He vies for this record with Charles Reid, who was the same age when capped - however, Reid had lived through an extra leap year day, when he was capped in 1881.Finlay attended Edinburgh Academy, which he was attending when capped.
- He later played for Edinburgh Academicals RFC, and Edinburgh University RFC.The first historian of Scottish rugby, R.J.
- Phillips, says of Ninian Finlay, "there never was such glamour and reputation attached to any Scottish player till A.R.
- Don Wauchope reached the zenith of his powers."In later life he was a Writer to the Signet.
