Jimmy Galt
Template:Short description Script error: No such module "For". Template:Use British English Script error: No such module "Unsubst". Template:Infobox football biography James Hill Galt (11 August 1885 – 17 November 1935) was a Scottish professional footballer who played as a left half for Rangers and Everton.[1]
Club career
Galt played with Rangers for eight years between 1906 and 1914.[2] He made 240 appearances and scored six goals for the club.[2] 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.[3]
Galt swapped Glasgow for Merseyside in 1914 and joined Everton. He made 36 appearances for the Toffees and scored four goals.[4] Despite captaining them to the First Division title,[5] 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.[6]
International career
Galt won his two Scotland caps in May 1908.[7] He scored on his second appearance, against Ireland on 14 May.[7] Galt also played and scored in one unofficial wartime international, against England on 13 May 1916.[8]
Military service
During the First World War he served with Army Service Corps and latterly the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders as a Second Lieutenant.[9] 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.[1]
Personal life (military service)
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.[10]
After retiring from football, Galt ran a series of billiard halls with ex-Rangers teammate Jimmy Gordon.[11]
References
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- ↑ Football. | Rangers v. Dundee, The Glasgow Herald, 13 August 1908
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