Archie Kyle | |
Fullname: | Archibald Kyle |
Birth Date: | 13 July 1883 |
Birth Place: | Kinning Park, Scotland |
Death Place: | Glasgow, Scotland |
Position: | Centre forward |
Youthclubs1: | Parkhead |
Years1: | 1904–1908 |
Clubs1: | Rangers |
Caps1: | 99 |
Goals1: | 47 |
Years2: | 1908–1909 |
Clubs2: | Blackburn Rovers |
Caps2: | 36 |
Goals2: | 8 |
Years3: | 1909 |
Clubs3: | Bradford Park Avenue |
Years4: | 1910 |
Clubs4: | Bo'ness |
Years5: | 1910 |
Clubs5: | Linfield |
Years6: | 1910–1911 |
Clubs6: | Clyde |
Caps6: | 27 |
Goals6: | 6 |
Years7: | 1911–1914 |
Clubs7: | St Mirren |
Caps7: | 90 |
Goals7: | 12 |
Years8: | 1914–1918 |
Clubs8: | Hamilton Academical |
Caps8: | 129 |
Goals8: | 32 |
Nationalyears1: | 1906–1908 |
Nationalteam1: | Scottish League XI[1] |
Nationalcaps1: | 2 |
Nationalgoals1: | 1 |
Archibald Kyle (13 July 1883 – 21 July 1957) was a Scottish football player who played for Rangers, Blackburn Rovers and Hamilton Academical.
Kyle joined Rangers from Parkhead in 1904.[2] He was one of a number of Roman Catholic players at the club during the early 1900s.[3] [4] Kyle made 110 League and Scottish Cup appearances for the club and scored 52 goals during his four-season spell. He was unable to claim any major honours in an era when rivals Celtic were dominant, the nearest being a runners-up medal from the 1904–05 Scottish Cup.[5]
He left Rangers 1908 to move to England with Blackburn Rovers and later Bradford Park Avenue before a brief stint in Ireland at Linfield. Kyle returned to Scotland and played with Clyde, St Mirren[6] and Hamilton Academical.[7]
Kyle married Letitia Hargreaves in 1905 and raised his family in Bridgeton, Glasgow. His grandson from daughter Mary "Catherine" Miller née Kyle is singer-songwriter Frankie Miller.
In 1924, he and John Browning, a former Celtic player, were found guilty of attempting to bribe Bo'ness player Peter Brown in a public house in Glasgow's Dundas Street: both men were sentenced to 60 days' hard labour.[8]