James Gillespie (footballer)
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| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Date of birth | 22 March 1868[1] | ||
| Place of birth | Glasgow, Scotland | ||
| Date of death | 5 August 1932 (aged 64)[2] | ||
| Place of death | Glasgow, Scotland | ||
| Position(s) | Outside right | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| Star | |||
| 1888–1891 | Clyde | ||
| 1890–1892 | Sunderland Albion | ||
| 1892–1897 | Sunderland | 129 | (51) |
| 1897–1902 | Third Lanark | 32 | (10) |
| 1902–1903 | Ayr | 17 | (7) |
| International career | |||
| 1898 | Scottish League XI[3] | 1 | (1) |
| 1898 | Scotland | 1 | (3) |
| * Club domestic league appearances and goals | |||
James Gillespie (22 March 1868 – 5 August 1932) was a Scottish footballer who played for Clyde, Sunderland Albion, Sunderland, Third Lanark, Ayr and Scotland.
Gillespie, an outside right, joined Sunderland Albion from Clyde in 1891,[1] moving on to Sunderland in 1892 when Albion folded.[4] Gillespie won the English league championship twice with Sunderland, in 1893 and 1895, and won the 1895 World Championship.[4] He scored a total of 57 goals in 146 appearances for the club in all official competitions.[2]
He returned to Scotland in 1897 with Third Lanark[5] and it was with the Glasgow club that he won his only international cap aged 30. Despite scoring a hat-trick in Scotland's 5–2 win over Wales on 19 March 1898 (with the others from fellow debutant James McKee), he was never capped again for his country.[4][6] Away from football he worked as an upholsterer and was based in Bearsden.[1]