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215:. The side opened with consecutive defeats against the United States and Hungary but won their remaining three matches to finish the competition in seventh place. As of May 2021, he remains the last Scotsman to represent Britain at the Olympics in water polo. After retiring from playing, Ferguson spent four years as the coach of the British national side.
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in the late 1940s and played as a forward. He captained the RAF team and trained the side to victory in an inter-services tournament against the other branches of the armed forces. He also scored the winning goal in the final of the 1949 Amateur
Swimming Association water polo final, the only time
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