John Hanlon (footballer)

John Hanlon (1892 – 1976) was a Scottish footballer who played as an outside right.[3]

John Hanlon
Personal information
Date of birth 1892
Place of birth Addiewell, Scotland
Date of death 1976 (aged 83–84)[1]
Place of death West Calder, Scotland
Height 5 ft 7 in (170 cm)[2]
Position(s) Outside right
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
– Fauldhouse West End
1913–1919 Hamilton Academical  88 (11)
1916–1919 Heart of Midlothian  1 (0)
1919–1922 Hamilton Academical  96 (15)
1922–1926 Heart of Midlothian  18 (2)
1924 → Bathgate (loan)  6 (1)
1925–1926 → Alloa Athletic (loan)  5 (0)
1926–1927 Peebles Rovers  
1928–1929 Stoneyburn  
Total 214 (28)
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only

Career

Hanlon played primarily for Hamilton Academical – he signed for the Accies as a teenager in 1913 a week after being selected for Scotland at junior level,[2][4] featuring regularly for much of that time.[3]

He moved to Heart of Midlothian in 1916[5] but only played in one Scottish Football League match[3] during his initial three years at Tynecastle Park and was away from the club for much of the time serving in World War I.

He returned to Hamilton in late 1919 (and was a Lanarkshire Cup winner in 1920) then signed for Hearts again in 1922,[2][5] but failed to become established there, serving lower-division loans at Bathgate and Alloa Athletic.[3]

Outside football

Hanlon was a noted athlete (often competing under the pseudonym 'Harris'),[2][4] his speciality being middle-distance running and particularly the half mile, recording a 1min 55sec time in a meeting at Shawfield Stadium in 1922.[4] He won multiple track events with his regiment (Royal Scots) in a post-war Rhine Army Sports Championship in 1919;[2][4] during the conflict itself, he was employed as a dispatch runner.[2]

References
  1. Statutory registers - Deaths - Search results, ScotlandsPeople
  2. Hanlon, Jock (1913), Hamilton Academical Memory Bank
  3. John Litster (October 2012). "A Record of pre-war Scottish League Players". Scottish Football Historian magazine. Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  4. John Hanlon, Hearts and Scotland, Midlothian Advertiser, 21 July 1950 via Addiewell Heritage
  5. (Hearts player) John Hanlon, London Hearts Supporters Club
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