Doug Scott obituary | Letter

The mountaineer Doug Scott was a founder of Nottingham Moderns RFC, whose formation arose from the grip that grammar schools often held over rugby union in England. When you left school and wanted to play the game, but had attended a secondary modern school rather than a grammar, there was often nowhere to go. This was particularly the case in Nottingham, where a group of rugby-mad former secondary modern pupils, including Doug, and a motley crew of trainee Welsh school teachers formed their own