SATURDAY, June 14, 1958, was the day of Glasgow Schools’ Rowing Club’s 16th annual regatta at Glasgow Green. Four trophies – the Murchison Cup, the St Mungo Quaich, the Boyd Cup and the Coronation Cup – were fought for by a record 69 crews. Watched by the city’s Lord Provost, Myer Galpern, the Possil School crew took the Boyd Cup despite the school having only recently joined the schools’ rowing club. In the invitation St Mungo Quaich race, Allan Glen’s once again emerged triumphant. A friendly race, a four-oared event, was won by Adelphi Terrace School, who finished a length ahead of Eastpark School.
That same day, Britain’s female tennis players won the Wightman Cup for the first time since 1930, with 17-year-old Christine Truman making a pivotal contribution. Scottish football fans, meanwhile, were looking forward to Sunday’s must-win match against France in the World Cup in Sweden. The national team had just lost to a Paraguay side described by the Glasgow Herald’s Cyril Horne as “one of the poorest I have seen in International football. Their greatest assets were their tremendous enthusiasm and the variety of unfair tricks they employed.” Much rested on the game against France, then, but, amid some sniping from fans and journalists in relation to the Scotland selectors’ choice of players, the team lost 2-1. Another World Cup dream was over.
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