Hector Forsayth (18 December 1899 – 7 March 1952) was a Scotland international rugby union player. Rugby Union career Amateur career Forsayth played for Oxford University. He received two 'blues' for playing against Cambridge in 1920 and 1921. In 1922 he turned out for Blackheath. The Tatler of 25 October 1922 reporting: H. H. FORSAYTH, the brilliant Oxford and Scotland full back, created quite a small sensation the other day by turning out for Blackheath. It had been generally assumed, and indeed announced in the Press, that, having finished his Oxford career, he would return to Australia but he appeared at the Rectory Field against Newport, and is said to be available for the rest of the season. His arrival is most opportune, for Blackheath badly needed a first-class full back, no one having been found worthy of filling the shoes of the redoubtable B. S. Cumberlege. Forsayth played a splendid game against Newport, and had much to do with keeping the score down to reasonable proportions. In the second half he was seized with cramp, and after one or two plucky efforts to continue, had to leave the field shortly before the close. This may have been due to being only partly fit, as is natural enough in one's first game of the season, or it may have been the result of fastening his stockings too tightly. It was to be observed during the first aid so zealously administered by R. Edwards, the burly English International playing for Newport, that Forsayth had tied up his stockings with what appeared to be a stay-lace if there are such things nowadays -and if this were too tight it might easily cause cramp. The best thing to keep up one's stockings is the old-fashioned, home-made garter of elastic about an inch broad. But I may be trespassing on Eve's province, so enough said! The fact that Forsayth returned to Rugby in the red and black of Blackheath, and not in the chaste attire of the London Scottish, furnished food for mirth to the ungodly, who chose to see in this an indication of the slenderness of the player's connection with Scotland, for whom he has played so many great games during the past two seasons. He came to Oxford from Australia, I believe, as a Rhodes scholar, and doubtless had some sort of kinship with Scotland, who were glad enough to secure