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Edinburgh’s links with the auld enemy run deep

WHISPER it quietly but Edinburgh Academy have some interesting links with the auld enemy across the wall, the cursed Sassenachs.
Not only do they have the Crombie brothers from Durham School to thank for introducing the game to the school but some of the biggest early figures in the school’s rugby history had English connections.
In that first ever international between Scotland and England in 1871 not only did the Academy and their old boys provide eight of Scotland’s 20-man team but another Accie, Benjamin Burns, was in the England line-up.
Burns was Scottish to the core but m...

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