Robert Stevenson | |
Position: | Inside left |
Clubs1: | Petershill[1] |
Years2: | 1913–1921 |
Clubs2: | Morton |
Caps2: | 222 |
Goals2: | 54 |
Years3: | 1921–1924 |
Clubs3: | St Mirren |
Caps3: | 69 |
Goals3: | 13 |
Years4: | 1924 |
Caps4: | 7 |
Goals4: | 0 |
Years5: | 1924–1925 |
Clubs5: | Arthurlie |
Caps5: | 5 |
Goals5: | 0 |
Years6: | – |
Totalcaps: | 303 |
Totalgoals: | 67 |
Robert Stevenson was a Scottish footballer who played as a inside left for Morton, St Mirren, Clydebank and Arthurlie.[2] [3] He left Morton the year before the Greenock club won the Scottish Cup in 1922, but was a regular member of their team in the period around World War I when they finished in the top four of the Scottish Football League table for six seasons running (Stevenson missed one of these campaigns entirely, likely as a result of wartime commitments).[2] He did take part in both of the Navy and Army War Fund Shield finals, the first of which in 1915 Morton won by defeating Rangers[4] and the second in 1918 which they lost to Celtic.[5] After he moved to Renfrewshire derby rivals St Mirren, Stevenson quickly struck up a fruitful partnership with fellow new signing Dunky Walker, who finished as the top scorer across European club football in their first season together.[6]