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Scottish Schools Team Championship
The Scotsman Trophy
The competition began in season 1967-68. The early winners were:-
1968 Boroughmuir High School, Edinburgh
1969 Allan
Glen's School, Glasgow
1970 Boroughmuir High School, Edinburgh
Boroughmuir pupils, and teacher
Three of them were in the 1968 Glorney Cup team: RD Waugh; CC
Campbell, and EJ Holt
By the time of the fourth championship, The Scotsman
newspaper in Edinburgh had stepped forward and donated the Scotsman
Trophy for the event.
The trophy was to be held by the winning team for a year, with each member of both teams in the final to receive a miniature of the trophy. The members of the winning team also received a gift voucher.
The first winner of the trophy was Ayr Academy; 50 schools competed, compared to 36 the year before. John Glendinning, the then president of the Scottish Junior Chess Association, predicted a higher entry in the years following as some 62 schools were now affiliated to the association.
1971 Ayr Academy
1972 Ayr Academy
1973 Ayr
Academy
1972 Scotsman School Trophy winners Ayr Academy
L to R: David
Findlay, Clement Caldwell, Alan Taylor and David Bentley.
(Thanks to
Joe Parks, Steve Rivett and Stephen Hamilton for helping to identify
Caldwell and Taylor.) Photo: JBW Robertson
The 1972 finalists Ayr Academy and Allan Glen's School
L to R:
unidentified; David Findlay; Clement Caldwell; Alan Taylor; David Bentley
(Ayr Academy); Ken Stevenson; Stephen Swanson; Dave Mackay (partly
hidden), Walter Buchanan (Allan Glen's), and John Glendinning, president
of the Scottish Junior Chess Association. Thanks to Walter Buchanan for
his help on this one. Photo: JBW Robertson.
1974 Madras College, St Andrews (Tim Upton on board 1)
1975 St Aloysius College, Glasgow (Andy Muir on board 1)
1976 Eastbank
Academy, Glasgow
1977 Paisley Grammar School
1978 St Saviour's High
School, Dundee
1979 St Savious's High School
1980 St Saviour's High
School
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1981 Glenalmond
College |
2001 St Margaret's High, Airdrie |
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1982 Glenalmond
College |
2002 Greenwood Academy, Dreghorn |
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1983 Glenalmond
College |
2003 Greenwood Academy, Dreghorn |
| 1984 Gryffe High School, Houston | 2004 George Heriot's School |
| 1985 Greenwood Academy, Dreghorn | 2005 Robert Gordon's School |
| 1986 Greenwood Academy | 2006 George Heriot's School |
| 1987 Greenwood Academy | 2007 Robert Gordon's School |
| 1988 James Gillespie's High School | 2008 Not completed |
| 1989 Perth High School | 2009 James Gillespie's High School |
| 1990 Ardrossan Academy | 2010 Not completed |
| 1991 James Gillespie's High School | 2011 Not held |
| 1992 Aberdeen Grammar | 2012 Not held |
| 1993 Aberdeen Grammar | 2013 Not held |
| 1994 James Gillespie's High School | 2014 Not held |
| 1995 Aberdeen Grammar | 2015 |
| 1996 George Heriot's School | 2016 |
| 1997 George Heriot's School | 2017 Bishopbriggs Academy |
| 1998 Ardrossan Academy | |
| 1999 Ardrossan Academy | |
| 2000 St Margaret's High, Airdrie |
Sources:
The Scotsman, 19 June 1971
Andrew Muir: thanks for additional information.
Contributions, corrections or photographs welcomed.
Alan McGowan
Archivist/Historian, Chess Scotland
updated 1/12/2023