Bob Smellie Explained

Bob Smellie
Fullname:Robert Smellie
Position:Left back
Birth Date:22 December 1867
Birth Place:Blantyre, Scotland
Death Place:East Kilbride, Scotland
Youthclubs1:Clydesdale Colts
Years1:1884–1885
Clubs1:Hamilton Academical
Years2:1885–1895
Clubs2:Queen's Park
Years7:1895
Clubs7:Motherwell
Years9:1896
Clubs9:St Bernards
Years10:1903
Clubs10:Hamilton Academical
Caps10:1
Goals10:0
Nationalyears1:1887–1893
Nationalteam1:Scotland
Nationalcaps1:6
Nationalgoals1:0

Robert Smellie (22 December 1867 – 14 October 1951) was a Scottish footballer who played for Hamilton Academical,[1] Queen's Park,[2] Motherwell, St Bernard's, Corinthian[3] and Scotland, as a left back.[4] He was a Scottish Cup winner with Queen's Park in 1890 and 1893.[5] He was later the Queen's Park club president; away from football he was an auctioneer in the farming industry, working in a family business which continued into the 21st century.[6]

His career has sometimes erroneously included details of another player of the same name who played in the same position for Annbank, Sunderland[7] [8] [9] and Walsall Town Swifts in the mid-1890s, based on the assumption that as an amateur he was able to move fairly freely between different clubs. However, that did not apply to professional English Football League clubs, and evidence such as both men playing matches for different clubs on the same day[10] shows them to be separate people.

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  1. https://sites.google.com/site/hamiltonacademicalmemorybank/players/smellie-robert-1903 Smellie, Robert (1903)
  2. http://www.qpfc.com/appearances/s/smellierj.htm Name: Smellie, Robert J.
  3. https://www.andrewwatsoncorinthian.co.uk/Scottish-corinthians Scottish Corinthians
  4. https://www.scotsfootballworldwide.scot/arnott Walter Arnott
  5. A Record of pre-war Scottish League Players. John Litster. Scottish Football Historian magazine. October 2012.
  6. http://www.lssmellie.co.uk/our-history/ Our History
  7. http://thestatcat.co.uk/Player.aspx?PlayerID=763 Robert Smellie
  8. Book: Dykes. Garth. Lamming. Doug. All the Lads: A Complete Who's Who of Sunderland AFC. 2000. Great Britain. 9781899538157.
  9. Book: Mitchell, Andy . The men who made Scotland: The definitive Who's Who of Scottish Football Internationalists 1872-1939 . Amazon . 2021 . 9798513846642.
  10. https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=AadEAAAAIBAJ&sjid=3bUMAAAAIBAJ&pg=3941%2C2708083 Scottish Cup. Annbank v. Hurlford—Final Ayrshire Cup.