Bob Donnelly (footballer) explained
| Bob Donnelly |
| Fullname: | Robert Donnelly |
| Height: | 5ft 11in |
| Position: | Centre half |
| Birth Date: | 9 September 1908[1] |
| Birth Place: | Craigneuk, Scotland[2] |
| Death Date: | [3] |
| Death Place: | Carluke, Scotland |
| Years1: | – |
| Clubs1: | Wishaw Juniors |
| Years2: | 1931–1935 |
| Clubs2: | Partick Thistle |
| Caps2: | 74 |
| Goals2: | 0 |
| Years3: | 1935–1937 |
| Clubs3: | Manchester City |
| Caps3: | 37 |
| Goals3: | 1 |
| Years4: | 1937–1938 |
| Clubs4: | Morton |
| Caps4: | 7 |
| Goals4: | 0 |
| Years5: | – |
| Totalcaps: | 108 |
| Totalgoals: | 1 |
Robert Donnelly (9 September 1908 – 3 June 1969) was a Scottish footballer who played as a centre half for Partick Thistle, Manchester City and Morton.
While with Partick, he was selected for a Scottish Football Association tour of North America in the summer of 1935; none of the matches was considered a full international.[4] [5] [6] He moved to Manchester City as a replacement for Sam Cowan for a £5,000 transfer fee a matter of days after his return from tour,[7] and was a member of the squad when the Citizens won the Football League championship in 1936–37, albeit he made only five appearances during the campaign[8] [9] with the more experienced Bobby Marshall moving back from an inside forward role to play in the heart of the defence.
Notes and References
- https://www.ancestry.co.uk/imageviewer/collections/1518/images/30807_A001063-00328?treeid=&personid=&hintid=&queryId=acb42183e7a958d79680edbe4f7bf0b1&usePUB=true&_phsrc=Has12349&_phstart=successSource&usePUBJs=true&_ga=2.236272709.539142173.1612552235-1516444615.1577920901&pId=10048125 Duchess of Richmond, Liverpool
- A Record of pre-war Scottish League Players. John Litster. Scottish Football Historian magazine. October 2012.
- https://www.scotlandspeople.gov.uk/record-results?search_type=people&dl_cat=statutory&dl_rec=statutory-deaths&surname=Donnelly&surname_so=syn&forename=Robert&forename_so=syn&other_surname_so=exact&mmsurname_so=exact&birth_year=1908&birth_year_range=1&record_type=stat_deaths Statutory registers - Deaths - Search results
- Web site: Scottish Football Association Tour, 1935. Canadian Soccer History . 8 November 2020 .
- Web site: British "FA XI" Tours: 1935 Tour of Canada and USA by the Scottish FA. Neil Morrison. 4 January 2018. . 8 November 2020 .
- Web site: The Year in American Soccer - 1935. David Litterer. American Soccer History Archives. 1 June 2011. 8 November 2020. 2 November 2015. https://web.archive.org/web/20151102021434/http://homepages.sover.net/~spectrum/year/1935.html. dead.
- http://partickthistleahistory.wikifoundry.com/page/1935+-+Donnelly+to+Man+City Partick Thistle Let Donnelly Away
- https://bluemoon-mcfc.co.uk/history/Players/Player.aspx?id=373 Robert Donnelly
- https://www.vintagefootballers.com/product/donnelly-robert-image-3-partick-thistle-1934/ Donnelly Robert Image 3 Partick Thistle 1934
