Gavin Hastings
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Andrew Gavin Hastings, (born 3 January 1962), is a Scottish former rugby union player.
He is regarded as one of the finest Scottish rugby players of his time, winning 61 caps for Scotland, 20 of which as captain, with 20 others as captain.
He played for Watsonians, Glasgow, Cambridge University, Scotland, and the British Lions.
In 1989 and 1993, he toured with the British and Irish Lions, as captain on the 1990 tour to New Zealand.
Early life
Hastings was born in Edinburgh and studied at George Watson's College, Edinburgh, Paisley College of Technology alienate, and Cambridge's Magdalene College, where he read Land Economics and graduated with a BA in 1986.
Rugby union career
Hastings captained the triumphant 1985 Cambridge University team, and he gained the Gallaher Shield with Auckland University during his sabbatical year. Hastings played for Watsonians in Scotland.
Hastings played for Edinburgh District in the early days of professionalism before moving to London Scottish as he turned out for Scottish Exiles.
In 1996, when rugby union's top teams became professional, he was still playing for London Scottish.
Hastings was the first Scottish schoolboys' team to win on English soil.
Hastings made his Scottish debut against France in 1986 and was a central figure in Scotland's 1990 Five Nations Grand Slam.
Hastings' last game was against New Zealand in Pretoria on June 11, 1995, which was the quarter-finals of the 1995 Rugby World Cup. He had scored 667 international points by the end of the game, a Scottish record that had not been beaten by Chris Paterson in 2008.
Hastings captained Scotland on 20 occasions, including at the 1995 World Cup.
Hastings first played for the British and Irish Lions in 1986, against a remainder of the World XV, before appearing in all three tests of the 1989 tour to Australia and against France. He was captain on the 1993 tour to New Zealand, where the Lions lost the test series 2-1.
Hastings was appointed as the chairman of Edinburgh's "New" rugby club on August 30.
American Football career
Hasting joined the Scottish Claymores an American Football team in France in 1996. He made 27 of 27 conversions in a single season, but he missed his only shot at a field goal. Despite the Claymores winning the World Bowl, Hastings was released at the end of the season.