Jimmy Robertson (footballer, born 1910)
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Date of birth | 1910 | ||
| Place of birth | Dundee, Scotland | ||
| Playing position | Centre forward | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps† | (Gls)† |
| – | Lochee United | ||
| – | Logie Thistle | ||
| 1928–1933 | Dundee | 157 | (47) |
| 1933–1934 | Birmingham | 6 | (1) |
| 1934–1938 | Kilmarnock | ||
| National team | |||
| 1931 | Scotland | 2 | (0) |
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* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. | |||
James E. Robertson (1910 – after 1937) was a professional footballer who won two caps for the Scotland national football team. He made more than 150 appearances in the First Division of the Scottish Football League for Dundee,[1] and also played in the English Football League for Birmingham and the Scottish First Division for Kilmarnock.[2]
Robertson was born in Dundee. A centre forward, he played for junior clubs Lochee United and Logie Thistle before joining Dundee in June 1928.[3] In a five-and-a-half-year career with the club, he scored 50 goals in 169 games in all competitions, of which 47 goals came from 157 games in the First Division.[1] At the end of the 1930–31 season, Robertson was included in the squad for Scotland's European tour;[4] he played in two full international matches, a 5–0 defeat to Austria on 16 May 1931[5] and a 3–0 defeat to Italy four days later.[6]
In December 1933, English First Division club Birmingham paid £1,250 for Robertson's services, seeing him as a potential successor to the prolific Joe Bradford, who was coming to the end of his career.[3] He went straight into the starting eleven, and played six consecutive games, scoring once,[7] but he suffered badly from homesickness, which affected his play, and at the end of the season he returned to Scotland to join First Division club Kilmarnock for a fee of £1,000. He maintained a scoring rate of a goal every other game while at Kilmarnock, and retired from the game in 1938.[3]
References
- 1 2 1928–29, 1929–30, 1930–31, 1931–3, 1932–33, and "1933–34". DundeeFC.net. Retrieved 19 May 2013.
- ↑ Joyce, Michael (2004). Football League Players' Records 1888 to 1939. Nottingham: SoccerData. p. 223. ISBN 978-1-899468-67-6.
- 1 2 3 Matthews, Tony (1995). Birmingham City: A Complete Record. Derby: Breedon Books. p. 120. ISBN 978-1-85983-010-9.
- ↑ "Dark Blue for Club and Country". Dundee F.C. Archived from the original on 6 December 2008.
- ↑ "Austria v Scotland 16 May 1931". Scottish Football Association. Retrieved 19 May 2013.
- ↑ "Italy v Scotland 20 May 1931". Scottish Football Association. Retrieved 19 May 2013.
- ↑ Matthews, p. 176.
External links
- Jimmy Robertson at scottishfa.co.uk
- Robertson's Scotland profile at London Hearts