Spring Road Trip Drive On A923 From Dundee To Visit Coupar Angus Perthshire Scotland

Tour Scotland Spring travel video of an April road trip drive, with Scottish music, North on the A923 road from the centre of the city of Dundee in Tayside, on ancestry, history visit to Coupar Angus, Gaelic: Cùbar Aonghais, in Perthshire. The A923 road starts on the A991 ring road in the centre of Dundee, making its way out of town along Lochee Road and Coupar Angus Road before crossing the A90 Kingsway Junction. The road appears more rural immediately although we're passing between the Camperdown Country Park and Downfield golf course and we're still within Dundee. We cross the city limit to drive through Muirhead, where the B954 branches off towards Newtyle and Meigle. From here the road begins to rise up through the Sidlaw Hills before levelling out and becoming dead straight to reach Coupar Angus and the A94 Road. The A923 was built, or at least rebuilt by Major Caulfeild in the 1760s as part of the military road network. It was a southern extension of the route north from Blairgowrie to Fort George via Braemar and Blairgowrie. John Bain " Jock " Sutherland was born on March 21, 1889 in Coupar Angus. After emigrating to America he got his start in football by playing end at the University of Pittsburgh, commonly known as Pitt, under legendary coach Glenn Scobey " Pop " Warner. He was named an All American and played on Pitt's national championship teams in 1915 and 1916. He coached college football at Lafayette College, 1919 to 1923, and the University of Pittsburgh, 1924 to 1938, and professional football for the Brooklyn Dodgers, 1940 to 1941 and Pittsburgh Steelers, 1946 to 1947. He was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame in 1951. Sutherland died in Pittsburgh on April 11, 1948, following surgery to remove a malignant brain tumour. He is interred in Pittsburgh's Homewood Cemetery. The Scottish name Coupar is a habitational name thought to be taken on from the place name Cupar in Fife, which is probably of Pictish origin, with an unknown meaning. As an English name Coupar was occupational for a cooper, that is, a maker of barrels. Spelling variations of this family name include: Coupar, Cooper, Cowper, Couper, Copper and others. Thomas Coupar settled in Virginia, America, in 1606; John Coupar arrived in America in 1793. All photographs are copyright of Sandy Stevenson, Tour Scotland, and may not be used without permission.

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