Alex Lambie
Personal information
Full name Alexander Lambie
Date of birth 15 April 1897[1]
Place of birth Troon, Scotland
Date of death 26 February 1963(1963-02-26) (aged 65)[2]
Place of death Prestwick, Scotland
Height 6 ft 2 in (1.88 m)[3]
Position(s) Centre half
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
– Dreghorn Juniors
1919–1920 Kilmarnock 1 (0)
1920–1921 Troon Athletic
1921–1931 Partick Thistle 264 (15)
1931 Chester 1 (0)
1931–1934 Swindon Town 83 (1)
1934 Lovell's Athletic
1934 Distillery
International career
1928 Scottish League XI 1 (0)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Alexander Lambie (15 April 1897 – 26 February 1963) was a Scottish footballer who played as a centre half.[4]

Career

Club

Although he began his career with Ayrshire teams including Kilmarnock, Lambie featured primarily for Glasgow club Partick Thistle where he spent a decade (all in the top division), making 325 appearances for the Jags in all competitions and scoring 17 goals,[5] having been brought in during 1921 as a replacement for Willie Hamilton, the regular of the past decade who had died of tuberculosis.[6]

He played in the 1930 Scottish Cup Final which Partick lost to Rangers after a replay,[7] but did manage to claim winner's medals in the Glasgow Merchants Charity Cup in 1927[8] and the one-off Glasgow Dental Hospital Cup in 1928, both against the same opponents.[9]

After he moved on from Partick Thistle in 1931, a spell at Chester lasting just a few weeks was followed by three seasons as a regular at Swindon Town,[10] and then further brief period in Wales with Lovell's Athletic and Ireland with Distillery before retiring.[3]

International

While playing for Partick Thistle, Lambie was selected once for the Scottish Football League XI against the English Football League XI in 1928,[1] and took part in what proved to be the last Home Scots v Anglo-Scots international trial match in the same year,[11] although this did not lead to a full cap for Scotland. He also played in two editions of the Glasgow Football Association's annual challenge match against Sheffield.[12][4]

Personal life

His nephews[lower-alpha 1] Jim, Jock and Tom Brown were all footballers, and their sons also became sportsmen.[13]

References

  1. ↑ They were not blood relatives: Lambie's wife and the Brown brothers' mother were sisters.
  1. 1 2 (SFL player) Alex Lambie, London Hearts Supporters Club
  2. ↑ Alex Lambie, The Thistle Archive. Retrieved 31 December 2021
  3. 1 2 Lambie Alec Image 1 Partick Thistle 1922, Vintage Footballers
  4. 1 2 John Litster (October 2012). "A Record of pre-war Scottish League Players". Scottish Football Historian magazine. {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  5. ↑ Players L, Partick Thistle History Archive
  6. ↑ Death of Well-known Local Footballer, The Dunfermline Press, 20 August 1921, via Partick Thistle History Archive (archived version, 2015)
  7. ↑ The Cup Final | Rangers Win Replay at Hampden, The Glasgow Herald, 17 April 1930
  8. ↑ Rout of the Rangers in the Charity Cup Final, The Sunday Post, 15 May 1927, via Partick Thistle History Archive
  9. ↑ Football | Partick Thistle, 2; Rangers, 0 | Glasgow Dental Hospital Cup–Final Tie, The Glasgow Herald, 11 December 1928, via Partick Thistle History Archive
  10. ↑ Alec Lambie Player Profile, Swindon-Town-FC
  11. ↑ Football. Anglo-Scots Trial., The Scotsman, 14 March 1928, via London Hearts Supporters Club
  12. ↑ Player Representative Honours, Partick Thistle History Archive
  13. ↑ Soccer Player Profile: Jim Brown, NJ Sports.com
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