Dan Kirkwood
Personal information
Full name Daniel Kirkwood
Date of birth (1900-12-24)24 December 1900
Place of birth Dalserf, Scotland
Date of death 20 October 1977(1977-10-20) (aged 76)
Place of death Stonehouse, Scotland
Height 5 ft 11 in (1.80 m)[1]
Position(s) Inside right
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
– Ashgill YMCA
1923–1924 Airdrieonians 4 (2)
1924–1926 Rangers 1 (0)
1925–1926 → St Johnstone (loan) 20 (5)
1926–1928 Sheffield Wednesday 18 (1)
1928–1933 Brighton & Hove Albion 168 (74)
1933 Luton Town 2 (1)
1933–1934 Swindon Town 7 (0)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Daniel Kirkwood (24 December 1900 – 20 October 1977)[1] was a Scottish professional footballer who played in the Scottish League for Rangers[2] and scored 76 goals from 205 appearances in the Football League playing for Sheffield Wednesday, Brighton & Hove Albion, Luton Town and Swindon Town. He played as an inside right.[3]

Kirkwood was born in Dalserf, South Lanarkshire. He turned professional with Airdrieonians in 1923, and in August of the following year moved to Rangers.[1][4][5] Unable to dislodge Scotland international Andy Cunningham from the starting eleven, Kirkwood spent a season on loan at St Johnstone,[1] and played only once for Rangers in the Scottish League,[2] in a 2–1 defeat of Partick Thistle on 28 August 1926.[6]

In November of that year, he joined Sheffield Wednesday, where he made 18 appearances in as many months before moving on to Brighton & Hove Albion at the end of the 1927–28 season for a £500 fee. Described as slow but constructive, Kirkwood scored 74 goals from 168 League appearances for the club[1] and was their top scorer in the 1928–29 season with 21 goals in all competitions.[7] His career was affected by injury, and he was allowed to leave on a free transfer in October 1933, spending a few weeks with Luton Town before finishing the season and his professional career with Swindon Town. Kirkwood returned to Scotland where he worked as a miner. He died in Stonehouse, South Lanarkshire in 1977 at the age of 76.[1]

His elder brother Andrew Kirkwood was also a footballer who was contracted to Rangers[8] and was loaned to St Johnstone at the same time as Dan where the siblings played together;[9] Andrew also featured for Hamilton Academical.[10]

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 Carder, Tim & Harris, Roger (1997). Albion A–Z: A Who's Who of Brighton & Hove Albion F.C. Hove: Goldstone Books. p. 135. ISBN 0-9521337-1-7.
  2. 1 2 "Player History – I/J/K". The Rangers Archive. Gersnet Online. Archived from the original on 6 October 2011. Retrieved 18 October 2010.
  3. ↑ Joyce, Michael (2004). Football League Players' Records 1888 to 1939. Nottingham: SoccerData (Tony Brown). p. 149. ISBN 978-1-899468-67-6.
  4. ↑ John Litster (October 2012). "A Record of pre-war Scottish League Players". Scottish Football Historian magazine. {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  5. ↑ (Rangers player) Kirkwood, Daniel, FitbaStats
  6. ↑ "Sat 28 August 1926". rangersfchistory.co.uk. Retrieved 16 July 2010.
  7. ↑ Carder & Harris, Albion A–Z, p. 338.
  8. ↑ (Rangers player) Kirkwood, Andrew R., FitbaStats
  9. ↑ Early Shock For Hearts, The Sunday Post, 13 December 1925, via London Hearts Supporters Club
  10. ↑ Kirkwood, Andrew (1922), Hamilton Academical Memory Bank
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