William Copeland Wood Murdoch (October 3, 1914, Old Kilpatrick

Old Kilpatrick

Old Kilpatrick is a village in West Dunbartonshire, Scotland.The village is on the north bank of the River Clyde immediately to the north of the Forth and Clyde Canal, three miles from Clydebank on the road to Dumbarton. The Great Western Road runs through Old Kilpatrick, and the next village to...

-October 1987, Helensburgh

Helensburgh

Helensburgh is a town in Argyll and Bute, Scotland. It lies on the north shore of the Firth of Clyde and the eastern shore of the entrance to the Gareloch....

) was a Scottish international rugby union

Rugby union

Rugby union, often simply referred to as rugby, is a full contact team sport which originated in England in the early 19th century. One of the two codes of rugby football, it is based on running with the ball in hand...

 player who played at full-back.

He was capped a total of nine times, but there was an extremely long hiatus in his career due to the Second World War - he gained his first cap in 1935, and his last in 1948. He gained four caps in the 1947-48 season. This gives him one of the longest international careers on record. Only he and W.B. Young

W.B. Young

William Brewitt Young was a Scottish and East African rugby football player.He was capped ten times for between 1937–48 and three times for East Africa between 1949-50. Along with Maurice Daly of he is one of only two people to have been capped by a major rugby playing nation and by East...

were capped on either side of the War.

In later life, he became a referee.