{{Short description|Scotland international rugby union player}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}} {{Infobox rugby biography | name = Fletcher Buchanan | image = | caption = | birth_name = Fletcher Gordon Buchanan | birth_place = Glasgow, Scotland | birth_date = {{Birth date |1889|12|23|df=y}} | death_place = Dollar, Clackmannanshire, Scotland | death_date = {{Death date and age |1960|05|24|1889|12|23|df=y}} | height = | weight = | position = Centre | amatyears1 = | amatteam1 = Kelvinside Academicals | amatteam2 = Oxford University | amatteam3 = Kelvinside Academicals | ru_amclubcaps = | ru_amclubpoints = | ru_amupdate = | provinceyears1 = 1911 | province1 = Whites Trial | provinceapps1 = | provincepoints1 = | repteam1 = Scotland | repyears1 = 1910-11 | repcaps1 = 3 | reppoints1 = 0 | ru_ntupdate = | coachteams1 = | coachyears1 = | ru_coachupdate = | university = Oxford University }}
'''Fletcher Buchanan''' (23 December 1889 – 24 May 1960) was a Scotland international rugby union player. He played as a Centre.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://en.espn.co.uk/scotland/rugby/player/2076.html|title = Fletcher Gordon Buchanan}}</ref>
==Rugby Union career==
===Amateur career===
Buchanan played for Kelvinside Academicals.<ref>Scotland. The Essential History of Rugby Union. Nick Oswald and John Griffiths. Headline Publishing. 2003.</ref>
On studying at Oxford University he then played for Oxford University.<ref>Scotland. The Essential History of Rugby Union. Nick Oswald and John Griffiths. Headline Publishing. 2003.</ref>
After studying at Oxford, he returned to Glasgow and played for Kelvinside Academicals once more. He captained the side.
The ''Scottish Referee'', 20 November 1911, said this of Buchanan:<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0001876/19111120/010/0001|title = }}</ref> <blockquote> one of the best three-quarters who played for Oxford last season has improved since he returned to the land of his birth, but it is a fact, and to-day the Kelvinside captain is one of the finest players behind the scrummage we have in Scotland. His displays in recent matches have shattered the opinion that he was only a fair weather sailor. He is more than that; he is a most excellent defensive player, besides being an aggressive artist of the premier type - Buchanan is a great exponent of the carrying game, and we hope this season to find him adorned with that emblem which only falls to the lot of a selected few. </blockquote>
===Provincial career===
He played for the Whites Trial side against the Blues Trial side on 21 January 1911, while still with Oxford University.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000576/19110123/110/0009|title = }}</ref>
===International career===
He played for Scotland three times, selected in 1910 and 1911.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://en.espn.co.uk/statsguru/rugby/player/2076.html?class=1;template=results;type=player;view=match|title = Rugby Union - ESPN Scrum - Statsguru - Player analysis - Fletcher Buchanan - Test matches}}</ref>
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