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Where: Murrayfield (previously Inverleith)
Winners play for: Miller Cup (since 1953). Named after the Edinburgh Lord Provost Sir James Miller.
Notes: Charity tournament, originally in aid of the Edinburgh Infirmary (from 1925). Charity donor changed to the Red Cross in 1940 and remained throughout the Second World War. A decision in 1948 meant the tournament lost it’s Infimary tag and was instead run for the club’s benefit. Previously also known as the Inverleith Sevens and now the Murrayfield Sevens. Tournament began in 1922.
Past winners
Mens
- 1982 Stewarts Melville
- 1981 Heriots (for RSSPCC, now Children 1st)
- 1980 Heriots
- 1979
- 1978
- 1977
- 1976
- 1975
- 1974 Edinburgh Wanderers
- 1973 Edinburgh Wanderers
- 1972 Edinburgh Wanderers
- 1971 Edinburgh Wanderers
- 1970 Boroughmuir
- 1969 Watsonians
- 1968 Royal HSFP
- 1967 Edinburgh Wanderers
- 1966 Edinburgh Wanderers
- 1965 Stewarts College F.P.
- 1964 Stewarts College F.P.
- 1963 Stewarts College F.P.
- 1962 Stewarts College F.P.
- 1961 Watsonians
- 1960 Co-optimists
- 1959 Stewarts College F.P.
- 1958 Heriots
- 1957 Stewarts College F.P.
- 1956 Heriots
- 1955 Heriots
- 1954 Heriots
- 1953 Edinburgh Wanderers
- 1952 Watsonians
- 1951 Watsonians
- 1950 Heriots
- 1949 Musselburgh
- 1948 Stewarts College F.P.
- 1947 abandoned after 2nd round – inclement weather
- 1946 Edinburgh University
- 1945 Edinburgh Academicals – Wanderers
- 1944 Army VII (for Lady Provost’s Comfort Fund for the Forces)
- 1943 Heriots
- 1942 Edinburgh Academicals – Wanderers
- 1941 Edinburgh University
- 1940 Hawick
- 1939 Co-optimists
- 1938 Dunfermline
- 1937 Watsonians
- 1936 Heriots
- 1935
- 1934 Watsonians
- 1933 Edinburgh Academicals
- 1932 Edinburgh Academicals
- 1931 Dunfermline
- 1930 Stewarts College F.P.
- 1929 Edinburgh Academicals
- 1928 Stewarts College F.P.
- 1927
- 1926
- 1925 Co-optimists
- 1924 Watsonians
- 1923
- 1922
Tournaments
1 April 1972
Edinburgh Wanderers retained the Miller Cup.
https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=GGgVawPscysC&dat=19720403&printsec=frontpage&hl=en
4 April 1964
https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=GGgVawPscysC&dat=19640406&printsec=frontpage&hl=en
2 April 1949
https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=GGgVawPscysC&dat=19490404&printsec=frontpage&hl=en
5 April 1947
https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000540/19470407/183/0007
https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=GGgVawPscysC&dat=19470407&printsec=frontpage&hl=en
4 April 1942
https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=GGgVawPscysC&dat=19420406&printsec=frontpage&hl=en
1938
https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000577/19380404/035/0004
5 April 1930
https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000577/19300407/260/0010
7 April 1928
https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000577/19280409/145/0010
1949 winners Musselburgh
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Thanks Eric. Now added.
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