Jack Borthwick (footballer)

Jack Borthwick

Personal information
Full name	John James Blacklaw Borthwick[1]
Date of birth	15 February 1886
Place of birth	Leith, Scotland
Date of death	1942 (aged 55–56)
Playing position	Centre half
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps^†	(Gls)^†
	Royal Oak
	Edinburgh Clifton
	Wemyss Violet
	Lochgelly United
1907–1908	Hibernian	30	(0)
1908–1911	Everton	25	(0)
1911–1915	Millwall Athletic
	East Fife
	Cowdenbeath
	Hibernian
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. † Appearances (goals)

John James Blacklaw "Jack" Borthwick (15 February 1886–1942) was a Scottish professional football centre half who played in the Football League for Everton.^[1] He also played in the Scottish League for Hibernian.^[2]

Personal life

Borthwick served as a private with the 17th (Service) Battalion of the Duke of Cambridge's Own (Middlesex Regiment) during the First World War and was wounded in the head at Delville Wood in 1916.^[3] He described his injuries in a letter to Bert Lipsham: "my head has been trepanned, as the skull was knocked in. The cut extends from nearly the top of my head down to my eyebrow. It was a near thing of losing my right eye".^[4]

References

1. Joyce, Michael (2012). Football League Players' Records 1888 to 1939. Nottingham: Tony Brown. p. 32. ISBN 190589161X.
2. "Hibernian Player John Borthwick Details". www.fitbastats.com. Retrieved 2016-03-10.
3. Riddoch, Andrew; Kemp, David (2010). When the Whistle Blows: The Story of the Footballers' Battalion in the Great War. Sparkford, Yeovil, Somerset: Haynes Publishing. pp. 124–125. ISBN 978-0857330772.
4. Riddoch & Kemp 2010, p. 146.