| Jack Borthwick | |
| Fullname: | John James Blacklaw Borthwick |
| Birth Date: | 15 February 1886 |
| Birth Place: | Leith, Scotland |
| Death Date: | [1] |
| Death Place: | Liverpool, England |
| Height: | 5 ft 10+3/4 in |
| Position: | Centre half |
| Youthyears1: | 1902–1903 |
| Youthclubs1: | Royal Oak |
| Youthyears2: | 1903–1904 |
| Youthclubs2: | Edinburgh Clifton |
| Youthyears3: | 1904–1905 |
| Youthclubs3: | Wemyss Violet |
| Youthyears4: | 1905–1906 |
| Youthclubs4: | Lochgelly United |
| Years1: | 1906–1908 |
| Clubs1: | Hibernian |
| Caps1: | 30 |
| Goals1: | 0 |
| Years2: | 1908–1911 |
| Clubs2: | Everton |
| Caps2: | 25 |
| Goals2: | 0 |
| Years3: | 1911–1914 |
| Clubs3: | Millwall Athletic |
| Years4: | 1914–1915 |
| Clubs4: | East Fife |
| Years5: | 1915 |
| Clubs5: | Cowdenbeath |
| Years6: | 1916 |
| Clubs6: | Hibernian |
John James Blacklaw Borthwick (15 February 1886 – 23 April 1942) was a Scottish professional footballer who played as a centre half in the Football League for Everton.[2] He also played in the Scottish League for Hibernian.[3] [4]
Borthwick's younger brother Watty also became a footballer and his son Bill worked as a trainer for Everton.[5] [6] Borthwick served as a private in the Football Battalion of the Middlesex Regiment during the First World War and suffered a gunshot wound to the head at Delville Wood in 1916.[7] He described his injuries in a letter to Bert Lipsham: "my head has been trepanned, as the skull was knocked in. The cut extends from nearly the top of my head down to my eyebrow. It was a near thing of losing my right eye".[8] Borthwick was discharged on 12 April 1917. After his retirement from football, he ran the Winslow Hotel, opposite Goodison Park.
| Season | League | National Cup | Total | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Division | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | |||
| Hibernian | 1906–07 | Scottish Division One | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | |
| 1907–08 | 28 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 31 | 1 | |||
| Total | 30 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 33 | 1 | |||
| Everton | 1907–08[9] | First Division | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | |
| 1908–09 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | |||
| 1909–10 | 19 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 19 | 0 | |||
| 1910–11 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | |||
| Total | 25 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 25 | 0 | |||
| Career total | 55 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 58 | 1 | |||