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Scottish footballer

Andrew Donaldson
Personal information
Full name Andrew Clark Donaldson
Date of birth 8 November 1886
Place of birth Mossend, Scotland
Date of death 14 June 1980(1980-06-14) (aged 93)
Place of death Cleland, Scotland
Height 5 ft 6 in (1.68 m)
Position(s) Inside left
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1904–1906 Ashfield
1906–1908 Motherwell 63 (15)
1908–1911 Airdrieonians 92 (22)
1911–1912 Celtic 17 (6)
1912–1918 Airdrieonians 215 (64)
1918–1920 Third Lanark 44 (9)
1920 Airdrieonians 15 (5)
1920–1922 St Johnstone
1922 Dykehead
Total 446 (121)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Andrew Clark Donaldson (8 November 1886 – 14 June 1980) was a Scottish footballer who played as an inside left. His clubs included Motherwell, Airdrieonians (three spells, making 337 Scottish Football League and Scottish Cup appearances in total and scoring 95 goals), Celtic and Third Lanark.

Career

Donaldson's father died when he was an infant – his mother remarried and at the time of the 1891 census he was known as Andrew Colquhoun. Soon afterwards his mother also died and his stepfather moved away; he and his brothers reverted to their original surname and were raised by their maternal grandparents in Motherwell. He began his football career in the juniors at Ashfield, and in March 1906 scored twice for Scotland Juniors against Ireland in March 1906; he was also capped against England a few weeks later.

Donaldson played regularly in the top division of Scottish football for 14 seasons, but never won a major trophy nor took part in a final – however, Airdrie won the minor Lanarkshire Cup six times while he was with the club, and he is known to have been involved in the 1914 victory but likely to have played in most if not all of the other finals. In January 1915 he scored four goals for Airdrie in a 5–0 league victory over Rangers, albeit this was during World War I when the SFL continued but wartime commitments and restrictions often affected the matches.

He later worked as a trainer and scout at Motherwell, including during the club's most successful period in the early 1930s and then worked as a groundsman until he was 83.

References

  1. Andy Donaldson, MotherWELLnet
  2. Donaldson's Goals. | Airdrie Win Easily. The Scottish Referee, 20 October 1913. Scan via London Hearts Supporters Club
  3. ^ John Litster (October 2012). "A Record of pre-war Scottish League Players". Scottish Football Historian magazine. {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  4. (Celtic player) Donaldson, Andrew, FitbaStats
  5. Andrew Colquhoun in the 1891 Scotland Census, Ancestry UK (subscription required)
  6. Andrew Donaldson in the 1901 Scotland Census, Ancestry UK (subscription required)
  7. Junior Scotland 1889 to 2019: The Players and Matches, Douglas Gorman and Tom McGouran, 2019, via Scottish Football Historical Archive
  8. Association Football., The Glasgow Herald, 3 January 1914
  9. Association Football., The Glasgow Herald, 5 January 1915
  10. Donaldson, Andrew, The Celtic Wiki
  11. 1931/32 Squad Photo, MotherWELLnet


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