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Norman "Norrie" Rowan (born 17th September 1951) is a Scottish international rugby union player, from Edinburgh, who played for . He played for Forrester RFC and later Boroughmuir RFC, and was also nominated for ''Rugby Worlds "Unsung Hero" award in 1989 - he was the only Scot to be given an award in that year,〔Starmer-Smith & Robertson, p100〕 after playing in all Five Nations matches that year.〔Starmer-Smith & Robertson, p133〕 He is currently semi retired. Rowan excavated the Edinburgh Vaults, after he found a tunnel leading to them in the 1980s. From this tunnel he helped Romanian rugby player Cristian Raducanu escape the Romanian secret police and seek political asylum weeks before the Romanian uprising of 1989. ==References== * Starmer-Smith, Nigel & Robertson, Ian (eds) ''The Whitbread Rugby World '89'' (Lennard Books, 1988 ISBN 1-85291-038-0) 〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア(Wikipedia)』 ■ウィキペディアで「Norrie Rowan」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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