Harold McKenna explained

Harold McKenna
Fullname:Hugh Harold McKenna[1]
Birth Date: 1895
Birth Place:Ireland
Death Date:[2]
Death Place:Bearsden, Scotland
Years1:1916–1921
Clubs1:Rangers
Caps1:40
Goals1:0
Years2:1918–1920
Clubs2:St Mirren (loan)
Caps2:50
Goals2:0
Years3:1921–1924
Clubs3:Third Lanark
Caps3:93
Goals3:2
Years4:1924–1925
Clubs4:Brighton & Hove Albion
Caps4:7
Goals4:0
Years5:1925–1926
Caps5:17
Goals5:0
Years6:
Totalcaps:207
Totalgoals:2

Hugh Harold McKenna (1895–1985) was a footballer who played as a left half or centre half.

Career

Having moved to Scotland from Belfast in Ireland with his family as a young child in about 1898, McKenna was raised amidst the shipyards of western Glasgow (Whiteinch and Yoker)[3] and began his senior football career with Rangers in 1916; his employment in a reserved occupation as an engineer at the yards spared him from being called up to active service with the armed forces during World War I. He played in 24 Scottish Football League matches in his first season at Ibrox, then in 12 in his second (1917–18) as the club finished as champions.[4] [5] McKenna was then loaned to St Mirren for two years,[5] during which he won the 1919 Victory Cup with the Paisley side.[6] [7] Returning to Rangers he found himself down the queue for selection, and though the Gers won the league again in 1920–21, he made only four appearances[4] and is unlikely to have received a medal.

In October 1921 he moved on to Third Lanark, playing regularly for three seasons[5] including in a Scottish Cup semi-final in 1923,[8] and took part in the club's tour of South America in the summer of that year.[9] [10] He transferred to England with Brighton & Hove Albion (then members of the Football League Third Division South) in November 1924, returning to Scotland nine months later with second-tier Alloa Athletic where he played for one season before retiring.[5]

Notes and References

  1. https://search.ancestry.co.uk/cgi-bin/sse.dll?indiv=1&dbid=1518&h=27960478&tid=&pid=&queryId=6488f1f74a423d196061bdf59f55867c&usePUB=true&_phsrc=DGT43&_phstart=successSource 'Highland Pride': La Plata, Argentina to Liverpool, England, 4 Aug 1923
  2. https://www.scotlandspeople.gov.uk/record-results?search_type=people&dl_cat=statutory&dl_rec=statutory-deaths&surname=mckenna&surname_so=exact&forename=hugh&forename_so=starts&other_surname_so=exact&mmsurname_so=exact&birth_year=1896&birth_year_range=1&record_type=stat_deaths Statutory registers – Deaths – Search results
  3. https://www.scotlandspeople.gov.uk/view-image/nrs_census/28723173?image=6&return_row=0 1911 McKenna, Martha (Census 575/2 3/ 6) Page 6 of 23
  4. https://www.fitbastats.com/rangers/player.php?playerid=1723 (Rangers player) McKenna, Harold J.
  5. A Record of pre-war Scottish League Players. John Litster. Scottish Football Historian magazine. October 2012.
  6. Web site: Victory Cup. StMirren.info. 17 January 2021. 16 November 2020. https://web.archive.org/web/20201116195052/http://www.stmirren.info/id18.html. dead.
  7. Web site: Sat 26 Apr 1919; St Mirren 3 Hearts 0 AET. London Hearts Supporters Club. 17 January 2021.
  8. https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=bZNAAAAAIBAJ&sjid=NKUMAAAAIBAJ&pg=1341%2C1459212 Association Football Hibernian, 1; Third Lanark, 0.
  9. Web site: Río de la Plata Trip of Third Lanark 1923 . Ciullini . Pablo . . 17 January 2021.
  10. https://books.google.com/books?id=1xojAwAAQBAJ&dq=%22willie+frame%22+motherwell&pg=PT52 Tommy McInally: Celtic's Bad Bhoy