Jimmy Robertson (footballer, born 1909)

James Edward Robertson[1] (1909–1979) 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,[2] and also played in the English Football League for Birmingham and the Scottish First Division for Kilmarnock.[3][4]

Jimmy Robertson
Personal information
Full name James Edward Robertson
Date of birth 1909
Place of birth Dundee, Scotland
Date of death 1979 (aged 70)
Place of death Cupar, Scotland
Position(s) 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 107 (54)
National team
1931 Scotland 2 (0)
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only

Life and career

Robertson was born in Dundee in 1909.[5] A centre forward, he played for junior clubs Lochee United and Logie Thistle before joining Dundee in June 1928.[6] 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.[2] At the end of the 1930–31 season, Robertson was included in the squad for Scotland's European tour;[7] he played in two full international matches, a 5–0 defeat to Austria on 16 May 1931[8] and a 3–0 defeat to Italy four days later.[9]

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.[6] He went straight into the starting eleven and played six consecutive games, scoring once,[10] 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.[6] He maintained a scoring rate of a goal every other game while at Kilmarnock,[11] and retired from the game in 1938.[6]

Robertson died in 1979[5] in Cupar at the age of 70.[12]

References
  1. John Litster (October 2012). A Record of pre-war Scottish League Players. Scottish Football Historian magazine.
  2. 1928–29, 1929–30, 1930–31, 1931–3, 1932–33, and "1933–34". DundeeFC.net. Retrieved 19 May 2013.
  3. Joyce, Michael (2004). Football League Players' Records 1888 to 1939. Nottingham: SoccerData. p. 223. ISBN 978-1-899468-67-6.
  4. Played For Dundee and Kilmarnock – Jimmy Robertson Dundee FC, 4 May 2017
  5. "Player search Robertson, JE (Jimmy)". English National Football Archive. Retrieved 9 June 2020.
  6. Matthews, Tony (1995). Birmingham City: A Complete Record. Derby: Breedon Books. p. 120. ISBN 978-1-85983-010-9.
  7. "Dark Blue for Club and Country". Dundee F.C. Archived from the original on 6 December 2008.
  8. "Austria v Scotland 16 May 1931". Scottish Football Association. Retrieved 19 May 2013.
  9. "Italy v Scotland 20 May 1931". Scottish Football Association. Retrieved 19 May 2013.
  10. Matthews, p. 176.
  11. "Kilmarnock: Player details: Robertson, Jimmy". FitbaStats. Bobby Sinnet and Thomas Jamieson. Retrieved 9 June 2020.
  12. "Statutory registers – Deaths – Search results". ScotlandsPeople. Retrieved 9 June 2020.
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