Editing Finlay Calder (section)

==Rugby Union career==

===Amateur career===

Born in [[Haddington, East Lothian|Haddington]], [[East Lothian]]<ref name="ESPN profile">{{cite web |url=http://en.espn.co.uk/scotland/rugby/player/9986.html |title=Rugby: Player profile: Finlay Calder, Scotland |publisher=[[ESPN]] |access-date=3 October 2015}}</ref> and educated at [[Stewart's Melville College]],

Calder played at open side [[Flanker (rugby union)|flanker]]. He played for [[Stewart's Melville RFC|Stewart's Melville]] and [[Heriot's Rugby Club|Heriots]].

===Provincial career===

He played for [[Edinburgh District (rugby union)|Edinburgh District]]. He was part of the side that won the [[1986–87 Scottish Inter-District Championship]].

He played for [[Combined Scottish Districts]] on 1 March 1986 against [[South of Scotland District (rugby union)|South of Scotland]].<ref>{{cite web | url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=GGgVawPscysC&dat=19860303&printsec=frontpage&hl=en | title=The Glasgow Herald - Google News Archive Search }}</ref>

===International career===

He received 2 caps for [[Scotland B national rugby union team|Scotland 'B']] in 1983 to 1984.

His full international debut was against France in 1986.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.espnscrum.com/statsguru/rugby/player/9986.html|title=Rugby Union - ESPN Scrum - Statsguru - Player analysis - Finlay Calder - Test matches|website=ESPN scrum}}</ref>

He won 34 caps representing [[Scotland national rugby union team|Scotland]] from 1986 to 1991. His last international game was against [[New Zealand]] in the third-place play-off match in the [[1991 Rugby World Cup]].

He captained the [[British and Irish Lions]] [[1989 British and Irish Lions tour to Australia|tour]] to [[Australia]] in 1989.

Richard Bath wrote that
:"''Calder's ability to use his drive, determination and innate knowledge of the game to overcome his undoubted shortcomings - in particular he was always a bit slow for an out-and-out open-side - helped him become one of the most effective back-row operators of the modern era. If he and the other two members of the Grand Slam back row [[John Jeffrey]] and [[Derek White (rugby union)|Derek White]] could not impose their own game, they certainly would make sure that the opposition could not impose theirs''".<ref name=Bath>{{cite book |editor-last=Bath |editor-first=Richard  |title=The Complete Book of Rugby |publisher=Seven Oaks Ltd |date=1997 |isbn=1-86200-013-1 |pages=127–8}}</ref>

When in 1989 Calder captained the Lions, he was the first Scottish player selected to do this since [[Mike Campbell-Lamerton]] in 1966 and the first captain to lead the side to victory since Willie John McBride in 1974.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.scotsman.com/news/finlay-calder-1-463926 |title=Finlay Calder |work=[[The Scotsman]]|date=2 May 2002 |access-date=3 October 2015}}</ref>