Headline man: Michael Dods celebrates scoring for Scotland in 1996

1925: Scotland 25 France 4 (Inverleith):
The opening game of what proved to be a Grand Slam season and Scotland started in style in front of a 20,000 crowd with a seven-try demolition of a team that had beaten them in Paris the previous season. Ian Smith – the glamorous Australian- born wing educated in New Zealand before he moved to Winchester and Oxford University – crossed for four tires, a feat he repeated in the next match against Wales. Another Australian- born wing Johnnie Wallace – he played for ...