Peter Jackson: Unions shamed into Doddie charity donation

There was a time when the stinginess of the Scottish Rugby Union knew no bounds, when players were given one pair of socks per year and instructions to hand them back with the rest of the kit at the end of the season, writes
.There is a story, perhaps apocryphal, concerning one of the very few who played in the last match before The Great War in 1914 and survived to reappear for the next one in 1920.