John Murphy | |
Fullname: | John Dickie Elliot Murphy |
Height: | 5ft 7in |
Position: | Outside right |
Birth Date: | 1898 |
Birth Place: | Govan, Scotland |
Years1: | – |
Years2: | 1919–1925 |
Clubs2: | Heart of Midlothian |
Caps2: | 142 |
Goals2: | 40 |
Years3: | 1922 |
Clubs3: | → St Mirren (loan) |
Caps3: | 0 |
Goals3: | 0 |
Years4: | 1925 |
Clubs4: | → Hamilton Academical (loan) |
Caps4: | 0 |
Goals4: | 0 |
Years5: | 1925–1926 |
Clubs5: | Motherwell |
Caps5: | 18 |
Goals5: | 3 |
Years6: | 1926–1929 |
Clubs6: | Kilmarnock |
Caps6: | 45 |
Goals6: | 10 |
Years7: | 1928–1929 |
Clubs7: | → Coleraine (loan) |
Years8: | 1929–1930 |
Clubs8: | Ballymena United |
Years9: | 1930–1931 |
Clubs9: | Shelbourne |
Totalcaps: | 205 |
Totalgoals: | 54 |
John Dickie Elliot Murphy (born 1898) was a Scottish footballer who played as an outside right.[1] His first and longest senior spell was with Heart of Midlothian[2] where he spent the better part of seven seasons (including brief loans at St Mirren and Hamilton Academical),[3] followed by around a year at Motherwell[4] and 18 months at Kilmarnock.[5] He then moved to the Irish leagues with Coleraine and Ballymena United in County Antrim then Dublin side Shelbourne.