EDINBURGH PHOENIX

Based: Meadowbank Stadium (trained at Seafield Recreation Ground)
Career Record: 22-17-0
Colours: Black shirts/Silver pants/Silver helmet
Website: No
Honours: None

1992 NDMA Division Two Northern Conference 4-4-0
1991 BNGL National Division Scottish Conference 7-3-0
1990 BNGL National League Scottish Conference 6-4-0
1989 CGL Duke Premier Division Scottish Conference 5-5-0

Team Notes: Formed in 1989 as a result of the merger between Edinburgh Blue Eagles and Capital/Lothian Clansmen. Entered the CGL in 1989 and registered a 5-5 season. Played in BNGL in 1990 finishing with a 6-4-0 record. Al-Penn White quarterbacked the Phoenix in 1991, leading them to a 7-3-0 record, before leaving at the beginning of the 1992 season. Won the 1991 BNGL National Scottish Conference, but a BNGL decision to reverse their win over Clydesdale Colts due to the Phoenix playing unregistered players meant the Colts took the title. The Phoenix appealed to BAFA and were reinstated in the playoffs, but the BNGL suspended the club so that the playoffs could continue without them. Owner Robert Orr said, "My lawyer said we could have had an injunction which would have halted the playoffs. It would have wrecked and bankrupted the league." But the players voted not to take the league to court. Penn-White quit the club in a dispute over money, and promptly signed for their rivals Glasgow Cyclones.

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QB Al Penn-White

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Imports:

1990

Al Penn White
Chris Luper (NAIA All Decade Team
JD Chumbley
Lorenzo Lilly

Internationals

25th May 1991 - Al Penn White threw for 437yards and  6TDs vs Fife 49ners
4th May 1991 - Al Penn White threw for 9tds vs East Kilbride and 425 yards
28th April 1991 - Al Penn White threw for 397yds and 8 TDs vs Strathclyde