{{Use dmy dates|date=September 2023}} {{Infobox rugby biography | name = Pat Burnet | image = | caption = | birth_name = Patrick John Burnet | birth_date = {{birth date and age|1939|7|25|df=yes}} | birth_place = Edinburgh, Scotland | death_date = | death_place = | height = | weight = | position = Centre | rl_youthclubs = | amatyears1 = | amatteam1 = Edinburgh Academicals | amatyears2 = | amatteam2 = Oxford University | years1 = | apps1 = | points1 = | clubupdate = | repteam1 = Scotland | repyears1 = 1960 | repcaps1 = 1 | reppoints1 = 0 | repupdate = | superyears1 = | super1 = | superapps1 = | superpoints1 = | superupdate = | province1 = Edinburgh District | provinceyears1 = 1961- | provinceapps1 = | provincepoints1 = | province2 = Blues Trial | provinceyears2 = 1963 | provinceapps2 = | provincepoints2 = | ru_provinceupdate = | university = Lincoln College, Oxford }}
'''Pat Burnet''' (born 25 July 1939) is a former Scotland international rugby union player who played as a Centre.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.espnscrum.com/scotland/rugby/player/6505.html|title=Patrick John Burnet|website=ESPN scrum}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://en.espn.co.uk/scotland/rugby/player/6019.html|title=Tommy McClung - Rugby Union - Players and Officials - ESPN Scrum|work=ESPN scrum}}</ref>
==Rugby Union career==
===Amateur career===
He played for Edinburgh Academicals.<ref>Scotland. The Essential History of Rugby Union. Nick Oswald and John Griffiths. Headline Book Publishing. 2003</ref><ref name="auto">{{Cite web|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=GGgVawPscysC&dat=19631216&printsec=frontpage&hl=en|title=The Glasgow Herald - Google News Archive Search|website=news.google.com}}</ref>
He went to Lincoln College, Oxford, and then played rugby union for Oxford University.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000769/19601206/248/0020|title=Register |url-access=subscription |via=British Newspaper Archive}}</ref>
===Provincial career===
Burnet was capped by Edinburgh District. His first Edinburgh cap came against Northumberland in 1961.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://edinburghrugby.org/about-us/150-years-of-edinburgh-rugby/full-player-list/|title=Full Player List|website=Edinburgh Rugby}}</ref>
He played for Blues Trial against Whites Trial in December 1963.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000769/19631209/326/0034|title=Register |url-access=subscription |via=British Newspaper Archive}}</ref><ref name="auto"/>
===International career===
Burnet was capped by Scotland just the once, in 1960, to play against South Africa.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.espnscrum.com/scrum/rugby/match/20009.html|title=South Africa v Scotland|website=ESPN scrum}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.thetimes.com/article/short-and-sharp-when-scotlands-pioneers-ventured-to-south-africa-kq6tlhmvk|title=Short and sharp: When Scotland's pioneers ventured to South Africa|first=Alasdair Reid, Scottish Rugby|last=Correspondent|via=www.thetimes.co.uk}}</ref>
==References==
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