Andrew "Jock" Wemyss (pronounced "Weemz") (22 May 1893, Galashiels – 21 January 1974, Edinburgh) was a Scottish rugby union player, who played at prop. Wemyss lost one of his eyes in World War I, but continued to play after the war (games were suspended during the conflict).
Rugby Union career
Amateur career
Wemyss played for Brunstane in Edinburgh.
From the Musselburgh News of 5 March 1920:
Mr Andrew Wemyss, who resides in Joppa, and is a former member of the Brunstane Rugby Football Club, has been selected by the Scottish Rugby Football Union to take part in the international match against England. It is the third international honour which has fallen to the lot of this player.
He became a founder member of two rugby union clubs; first Haddington and then Co-Optimists.
Wemyss, together with George St Claire Murray, a rugby enthusiast from the Watsonians club, founded the Co-Optimists invitational rugby club in 1924. This came after an invitation game against Haddington, a club Wemyss had been a founder member of at the age of 17.
Wemyss went on to be successful journalist and commentator, and on the occasion of Haddington's 90th anniversary, the club received a letter from the Bill McLaren stating how much he owed Jock for early tutelage.
See also
Alex Angus and Charlie Usher, who also played both before and after the First World War. Thomas Gisborne Gordon, one-armed Irish player.
References
Bath, Richard (ed.) The Scotland Rugby Miscellany (Vision Sports Publishing Ltd, 2007 ) profile at scrum.com