Career
He was a fly half, and took over from Gordon Waddell. He was capped 31 times between 1959-1967. McLaren says of a game against South Africa in 1960
The Scottish try was a typical opportunist effort by Scotland"s captain Arthur Smith.
Iain Laughland (London Scottish) operating at stand-off, tried a drop-goal after John Douglas (Stewarts College FP), Norman Bruce (London Scottish) and Hugh McLeod (Hawick) had rolled out of the back of a line-out.
The ball sliced off Laughland"s foot, but Arthur Smith, purring as always like a high powered Rolls Royce, screamed up the wing like a shell and got the touch before the ball rolled out of play. The match was marked by some magnificent Scottish tackling in which the mid-field of Laughland, Eddie McKeating (Heriots FP), and George Stevenson (Hawick) set a superb example, that deprived a South African threequarter line comprising Janie Engelbrecht, Ian Kirkpatrick, John Gainsford and Hennie van Zyl of a try.
Some feat considering that those four contributed 38 tries during the tour.