| Jimmy Galt | |
| Fullname: | James Hill Galt[1] |
| Birth Date: | 11 August 1885 |
| Birth Place: | Saltcoats, Scotland |
| Death Date: | [2] [3] |
| Death Place: | Whitecraigs, Scotland |
| Position: | Centre half |
| Clubs1: | Ardrossan Winton Rovers |
| Years2: | –1906 |
| Clubs2: | Ardeer Thistle |
| Years3: | 1906–1914 |
| Clubs3: | Rangers |
| Caps3: | 185 |
| Goals3: | 5 |
| Years4: | 1914–1916 |
| Clubs4: | Everton |
| Caps4: | 32 |
| Goals4: | 2 |
| Years5: | 1916 |
| Clubs5: | Partick Thistle |
| Caps5: | 3 |
| Goals5: | 0 |
| Years6: | 1920 |
| Clubs6: | Third Lanark |
| Caps6: | 0 |
| Goals6: | 0 |
| Clubs7: | Alloa Athletic |
| Nationalyears1: | 1908 |
| Nationalteam1: | Scotland |
| Nationalcaps1: | 2 |
| Nationalgoals1: | 1 |
| Nationalyears2: | 1911–1912 |
| Nationalteam2: | Scottish League XI |
| Nationalcaps2: | 2 |
| Nationalgoals2: | 0 |
| Nationalyears3: | 1916 |
| Nationalteam3: | Scotland (wartime) |
| Nationalcaps3: | 1 |
| Nationalgoals3: | 1 |
James Hill Galt (11 August 1885 – 17 November 1935) was a Scottish professional footballer who played as a left half for Rangers and Everton.
Galt played with Rangers for eight years between 1906 and 1914.[4] He made 240 appearances and scored six goals for the club. During his time at Ibrox he won three Scottish league championships, two Glasgow Cups and three Glasgow Merchants Charity Cups, as well as the Edinburgh Exhibition Cup in 1908.[5]
Galt swapped Glasgow for Merseyside in 1914 and joined Everton. He made 36 appearances for the Toffees and scored four goals.[6] Despite captaining them to the First Division title,[7] he left after only one season when World War I took hold and official football was suspended in England, returning to Scotland to play for Partick Thistle and Third Lanark. He guested for Fulham during the war.[8]
Galt won his two Scotland caps in May 1908.[9] He scored on his second appearance, against Ireland on 14 May. Galt also played and scored in one unofficial wartime international, against England on 13 May 1916.[10]
During the First World War he served with Army Service Corps and latterly the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders as a Second Lieutenant.[11] He was wounded in action, suffering severe shell-shock, which meant that he did not resume his football career to any great extent after the war ended.
Galt was also an accomplished golfer: he battled for the 'Scottish Professional Footballers Golf Championship' with Jimmy Lawson of Dundee who later switched sports to turn professional in the United States.[12]
After retiring from football, Galt ran a series of billiard halls with ex-Rangers teammate Jimmy Gordon.[13]