Notable Players
The club throughout history has boasted some impressive individual rugby players and have represented Scotland and the British and Irish Lions.
Since the dawn of the professional era, the club has not had any Scottish international or British Lions players again but annually boasts several age group Scottish internationals and in 2008/09 had 15 players selected for the Scottish Universities squad.
- Ronald S. Cummings, the first AURFC international cap in 1921, when he played against Wales for Scotland
- John Robert Stephen Innes, Scotland in 1939 and 1946
- E.T.S Michie, the first University of Aberdeen British and Irish Lions player in the 1955 tour to South Africa
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