David Meiklejohn

Davie Meiklejohn
Personal information
Full name	David Ditchburn Meiklejohn
Date of birth	(1900-12-12)12 December 1900
Place of birth	Govan, Scotland
Date of death	22 August 1959(1959-08-22) (aged 58)
Place of death	Airdrie, Scotland
Playing position	Centre back
Youth career
–1919	Maryhill
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps^†	(Gls)^†
1919–1936	Rangers	490	(42)
National team
1922–1933	Scotland	15	(3)
1921–1932	Scottish League XI	6	(0)
Teams managed
1947–1959	Partick Thistle
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. † Appearances (goals)

David "Davie" Ditchburn Meiklejohn (12 December 1900 – 22 August 1959) was a Scottish professional footballer most famous for his time with Scottish club Rangers.

Career

Born in Govan, Glasgow, Meiklejohn joined Rangers from junior club Maryhill in 1919 and spent the rest of his playing days with the Ibrox club.

He played 563 games, scoring 46 goals and winning 12 League Championships and 5 Scottish Cups. On 5 September 1931, he captained the Rangers side in the Old Firm game which saw the Celtic goalkeeper John Thomson accidentally killed contesting for a ball with Rangers' Sam English. Meiklejohn is credited with having realised the seriousness of the situation and gestured to calm the home support whilst the injured Thomson was being attended to.

He was capped 15 times by Scotland during an 11-year international career. He also scored 3 times and captained the side six times. He made his debut against Wales. Meiklejohn also represented the Scottish League XI six times.^[1]

Meiklejohn retired from football in 1936 and took a job with the Daily Record newspaper. In 1947 he became manager of Partick Thistle.

He collapsed and died, aged 58, in the director's box at Broomfield Park, home of Airdrieonians. On 15 November 2009 he was inducted into the Scottish Football Hall of Fame.^[2]

References

↑ "Scotland FL Players by Appearances". Londonhearts.com (London Hearts Supporters' Club). Retrieved 27 November 2011.
↑ Eight more Scots greats enter Hall of Fame The Scotsman, 16 November 2009

External links

David Meiklejohn at scottishfa.co.uk

Partick Thistle F.C. – managers

Easton (1903–29)
Turner (1929–47)
Meiklejohn (1947–59)
Thornton (1959–68)
Symon (1968–70)
McParland (1970–74)
Auld (1974–80)
Quinn^c (1980)
Cormack (1980–84)
Rooney (1984–86)
Auld (1986)
Johnstone (1986–87)
Hagart^c (1987)
Lamont (1987–88)
Watson^c (1988)
Lambie (1988–89)
Clark (1989–90)
Collins^c (1990)
Lambie (1990–95)
MacLeod (1995–97)
McVeigh (1997–98)
Bryce (1998–99)
Lambie (1999–03)
Collins (2003)
Britton & Whyte (2003–04)
Lambie^c (2004–05)
Campbell (2005–07)
Bone^c (2007)
McCall (2007–11)
McNamara (2011–13)
Archibald (2013–)

Rangers F.C. – Hall of Fame

Scottish Football Hall of Fame

Players & managers	Archibald Auld Bauld Baxter Bremner Bill Brown Bobby Brown C. Brown Buchan Busby Butcher Caldow Campbell Cowan Crerand Dalglish Delaney Docherty Evans Ferguson Gallacher Gemmell Gemmill Gilzean Goram Gough Graham Gray Greig Hansen Henderson James Jardine M. Johnston B. Johnstone D. Johnstone J. Johnstone Jordan Lambert Larsson Laudrup Law Leighton Lennox Liddell Lorimer Mackay McCoist McColl McGrain McGrory McLean McLeod McLintock McNeill McPhail McQueen McStay Maley Malpas Meiklejohn Miller Morton Murdoch Narey Nicholas Ormond L. Reilly R. Reilly Robertson Rough Shankly Simpson G. Smith W. Smith Souness St John Stanton Steel Stein Strachan Struth Symon Thomson Turnbull Waddell B. Walker T. Walker Watson White Wilson Woodburn Young

Non-players	Hillis Wharton

Special inductees	McCrae's Battalion

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