HE days of a first choice Test prop captaining his national Seven to a ‘world title’ are probably long gone but that’s what happened back in 1973 when the Scottish Rugby Union, celebrating their Centenary, staged the inaugural world invitational Sevens tournament.
The Scots invited Wales, Ireland, England, New Zealand, France and Australia to join them and an all-star Presidents VII based around some of the biggest names in South African and Scottish rugby to join them in a jamboree of Sevens at Murrayfield. Two groups of four with the winners playing in a Grand Final. At ...