Background
Louis Moritz Speirs was born on 23 October 1885 in Glendevon, Perthshire, Scotland, the son of Ebenezer B Speirs, the Minister of Glendevon Parish and his wife Marie, who had been born in Ronilly, West Prussia.
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Louis Speirs
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Between 1891 and 1901 his father died and the family moved to Edinburgh Morningside. Here, the young Moritz, as he was referred to, went to school. Speirs played for the Watsonians Football Club, originally the club for the old boys of George Watson"s College.
Speirs made his Test debut for Scotland vs South Africa at Glasgow on 17 November 1906.
He played in a further 9 matches for his country between 1906 and 1910 all of which were in the Five Nations tournament. In 1910 he was selected for the first official British tour to South Africa (in that it was sanctioned and selected by the four Home Nations official governing bodies).
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In the 1909/10 season he was a member of the team that was undefeated against Scottish opposition during that entire season.
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United Kingdom