ru_nationalteam ru_amateurclubs ru_ntupdate university birth_place ru_nationalcaps ru_amupdate article_title school birth_date nickname ru_nationalpoints ru_position other name ru_nationalyears occupation
scotland london scottish fc oxford university rfc anglo-scots 15 november 2009 university of oxford richmond , england 17 15 november 2009 frans ten bos
 fettes college 21 april 1937 flying dutchman -lrb- 3 -rrb- lock yes frans ten bos 1959-1963 former chairman of henderson strata and wace
frans ten bos

frans herman ten bos -lrb- 21 april 1937 -rrb- was an english-born rugby union footballer , of dutch ancestry .
he played for as a lock in the 1960s , and was capped seventeen times .
he is arguably the most successful dutch rugby player prior to tim visser and the professional era .
ten bos attended fettes college in edinburgh , where he was introduced to the game , and later played for oxford university rfc and london scottish fc .
ten bos was controversially dropped before the scotland - game in dublin in 1960 , because he was recovering from an injury .
yet according to bill mclaren , `` he took part in all the preparatory activities and pronounced himself as fit to play .
he certainly gave it 100 per cent during a vigorous session . ''
yet alf wilson , chairman of the selectors , did not think so , and he was replaced by oliver grant of hawick .
mclaren continues : `` there was a feeling that ten bos had been unfairly treated and that the lad himself was hurt and distressed by the decision to leave him out . ''
notably , ten bos scored a try against in cardiff , in the 1962 match there , which resulted in scotland 's first victory against wales in an away game in thirty five years ; the score was 8-3 to scotland .
a famous story involving ten bos and hugh mcleod is told by bill mclaren .
on the evening before the 1963 game between and at colombes in paris , hugh mcleod and bill mclaren were out having a meal together and bumped into ten bos near a cafe .
hugh mcleod took ten bos aside , and told him bluntly : '' `` frans , ye think ye 're a guid forrit but really ye 're jist a big lump o ' potted meat .
if ah was half yer size i 'd pick up the first two frenchman that looked at me the morn -lsb- tomorrow and ah 'd chuck them right ower the bloody stand . '' ''
scotland later won the game 11-6 , rare for an away game .
ten bos tapped mclaren on the shoulder as they left the cafe , and said , `` you know , i 'd follow him anywhere . ''
he later became chairman of henderson strata investments .
he is profiled in the august , 1973 edition of `` rugby world '' .
