Charles Reid

Charles Reid (14 January 1864 - 25 October 1909) was a Scotland international rugby union player. Rugby Union career Amateur career Reid attended Edinburgh Academy, and played rugby union for the Edinburgh Academicals . He was still a schoolboy of the academy when first capped by Scotland. In the match against in 1881, he played against his classmate Frank Wright at Raeburn Place. Frank Wright was also seventeen at the time but - as a boarder from Manchester - represented the England side. At the end of the match, both of the boys were carried on the shoulders of their fans back to Edinburgh Academy. He acquired a nickname of Hippo at the school; this does not refer to his being like a hippopotamus, but the fact that he didn't know the word for a horse, when asked once in an Ancient Greek class at the Edinburgh Academy.