Waid 1st XV 1889–1890
Back row: T D Murray, D Cook, W Carnegie, D Ireland, W Sime, H Cargill, C P Edie, G Lumsden
Middle row: J Bell, A Cook, R Reid, H Edie, W Band, A C Robertson
Front row: C Stockwell, F Bruce
Jamie Anderson and Jack McLaren, senior students at Waid Academy, are volunteering after school each week to help us digitise our photo collection.
As part of our project, working with the Burgh Collection, we have been archiving old Waid sports photographs, and while doing so, this picture caught our eye.
This was because it not only pictured a rugby team, which is a sport we both enjoy playing and spectating, but it was also the oldest sports photograph in our very packed Waid Academy sport archive.
This picture was taken in 1889, three years on from the opening of the very historic school, which has long been regarded as a top rugby school.
This photograph further shows how Waid Academy has had sports teams from the very beginning and paved the way for other schools to follow in their footsteps regarding school sport.
What is also fascinating about this picture is that The Burgh Collection has been able to gather the names of all participating in this team photograph. Although we don’t know the match scores of this team, we know the importance this team has had on Waid sport and its long-standing reputation.