Английская Википедия:George Hamilton (footballer)

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Шаблон:Short description Шаблон:EngvarB Шаблон:Use dmy dates Шаблон:Lead too short Шаблон:Infobox football biography George Hamilton (7 December 1917 – May 2001) was a Scottish international footballer, who spent most of his 21-year career with Aberdeen. He also played for Queen of the South, Heart of Midlothian and Hamilton Academical.

Playing career

Queen of the South

Born in Irvine, Hamilton started out with local junior side Irvine Meadow before moving to Dumfries to join Queen of the South. Hamilton was comfortable with the ball on either foot and had an obvious love of playing the game. After a single season with Queens (scoring nine goals in 31 league games) Aberdeen managed by Dave Halliday (another ex-Queen of the South player) purchased him for £3000 in April 1938.

Aberdeen

Hamilton would prove as shrewd a signing as Halliday would ever make as he would emerge as an inspirational player of real quality.

Like many of his contemporaries, Hamilton's career was significantly disrupted by the Second World War and, when League football in Scotland went into abeyance in 1939, he returned to his native Ayrshire. Eventually, temporary Regional Leagues were established, and, due to war-time travel restrictions, players would guest for local sides. This resulted in Hamilton turning out for first Ayr United, then Rangers between 1940 and 1945.

Hamilton returned to Aberdeen at the end of global hostilities and enjoyed his most successful period, lifting the transitional 1945–46 League Cup then scoring the winner in the 1947 Scottish Cup Final against Hibernian. Despite this, when Heart of Midlothian offered £8000 plus the younger Archie Kelly for his services in December 1947, the Reds considered it good value for a 30-year-old, and accepted.

Heart of Midlothian

After only 17 appearances (scoring six goals in thirteen league games) for Hearts, an unsettled Hamilton returned to Aberdeen.

Return to Aberdeen

In March 1950 Hamilton played in a titanic Scottish Cup quarter final tussle against former club Queen of the South, eventually losing 4–3 after being three goals up.

Despite Aberdeen's erratic league results, Hamilton helped the side to two further (losing) Scottish Cup Final appearances, in 1953 and 1954.

Age eventually caught up with Hamilton and he was transferred to Hamilton Academical in 1955, having largely watched from the sidelines as a young Dons side won the 1954–55 League title with the long serving Halliday still at the helm.

Hamilton Academical

Hamilton retired a matter of months after joining Academicals, not long after his 38th birthday. In his eleven league appearances for the club he scored two goals.

International career

Hamilton's consistent good form in 1945–46 earned him a Scotland national team debut against Northern Ireland.

Hamilton twice earned an international recall, initially in 1951, when he scored a hat-trick against Belgium, then remarkably in 1954 when aged 36. He played two games against Norway, scoring the only goal of the game played in Scotland. This latter return coincided with the 1954 FIFA World Cup and Hamilton was selected in the 22-man squad for Switzerland. Scotland decided to take only 13 players to the finals, and Hamilton was initially one of the players told to stay at home on reserve. Bobby Johnstone then withdrew through injury, and Hamilton was called in to replace him in the 13-man squad. Hamilton did not play in either of Scotland's two games at the tournament.

Hamilton was the first former Queen of the South player to travel to the World Cup Finals. Sam Malcolmson to Spain in 1982 and Bernie Slaven at Italia 90 are the others to have done so.

Later years

After hanging up his boots, Hamilton joined the Aberdeen coaching team.

Career statistics

Club

Appearances and goals by club, season and competition

Club	Season	League			Scottish Cup		League Cup		Total
		Division	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals
Irvine Meadow	1934–35	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
	1935–36		-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
	1936–37		-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
	Total		-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Queen of the South	1937–38	Scottish Division One	31	9	-	-	-	-	31+	9+
Aberdeen	1938–39	Scottish Division One	37	17	5	1	-	-	42	18
	1939–40		4*	2	0	0	-	-	4*	2
	1940–41	League football cancelled due to the Second World War
	1941–42
	1942–43
	1943–44
	1944–45
	1945–46
	1946–47	Scottish Division One	26	17	7	5	9	11	42	33
	Total		67	36	12	6	9	11	88	53
Heart of Midlothian	1947–48	Scottish Division One	15	13	2	0	0	0	17	15
Aberdeen	1947–48	Scottish Division One	8	2	0	0	6	7	14	9
	1948–49		19	10	1	1	6	4	26	15
	1949–50		26	9	5	2	1	0	32	11
	1950–51		28	17	2	4	10	8	40	29
	1951–52		19	13	0	0	4	1	23	14
	1952–53		18	15	6	2	0	0	24	17
	1953–54		15	0	5	3	6	1	26	4
	1954–55		4	2	1	0	6	1	11	3
	Total		137	68	20	12	33	22	196	102
Hamilton Academical	1954–55	Scottish Division Two	11	2	-	-	-	-	11+	2+
Career total			261	128	34+	18+	42+	33+	343+	181+

International

#	Date	Opponent	Result	Hamilton goals	Competition
1	27 November 1946	Шаблон:Fb	Scotland 0–0 Northern Ireland	0	1947 British Home Championship
2	20 May 1951	Шаблон:Fb	Belgium 0–5 Scotland	3	Friendly match
3	27 May 1951	Шаблон:Fb	Austria 4–0 Scotland	0	Friendly match
4	5 May 1954	Шаблон:Fb	Scotland 1–0 Norway	1	Friendly match
5	19 May 1954	Шаблон:Fb	Norway 1–1 Scotland	0	Friendly match

Honours

Aberdeen

• Scottish Cup: 1947
• Southern League Cup (Scotland): 1946

See also

• List of Scotland national football team hat-tricks

References

• Шаблон:Cite book
• Шаблон:Cite book

External links

• George Hamilton full career profile on the official Queen of the South website
• Шаблон:SFA profile
• Appearances at londonhearts.com