Personal information | |||
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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) |
International career | |||
1931 | Scotland | 2 | (0) |
*Club domestic league appearances and goals |
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]
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]