Bobby Tait (Cowdenbeath footballer)

Scottish footballer

Bobby Tait
Personal information
Full name	Robert Tait
Date of birth	c. 1886
Place of birth	Scotland
Date of death	1950 (aged 64)
Place of death	Cowdenbeath, Scotland
Position(s)	Inside forward
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
	Glenbuck Cherrypickers
0000–1908	Carlisle United
1908–1909	Motherwell	30	(5)
1909–1911	Nithsdale Wanderers
1911–1922	Cowdenbeath	68	(17)
1920	Lochgelly United
	Cowdenbeath Wednesday
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Robert Tait was a Scottish footballer who played in the Scottish League for Cowdenbeath and Motherwell as an inside forward.

Personal life

After his retirement from football, Tait worked as a tailor in Cowdenbeath.

Appearances and goals by club, season and competition
Club	Season	League			National Cup		Total
Club	Season	Division	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals
Motherwell	1908–09	Scottish Division One	30	5	2	0	32	5
Cowdenbeath	1911–12	Scottish Division Two	17	5	11	0	28	5
	1912–13		12	0	3	0	15	0
	1913–14		19	5	6	0	25	5
	1914–15		20	7	2	0	22	7
	1919–20	Central League	0	0	8	0	8	0
	1920–21	Central League	0	0	3	0	3	0
	Total		68	17	33	0	101	17
Career total			98	22	35	0	133	22

Cowdenbeath

Individual

^ "Robert Tait". Motherwellnet. Retrieved 4 July 2018.
^ "Bobby Tait". Cowdenbeath FC – Blue Brazil Online. Retrieved 4 July 2018.
^ Litster, John. Record of Pre-War Scottish League Players. Norwich: PM Publications.
Cowdenbeath F.C. at the Football Club History Database

v t e Cowdenbeath F.C. – Hall of Fame inductees
Players	Adamson H. Allan R. Allan Archibald Armstrong R. Birrell W. Birrell Bostock G. Brown J. Brown Buchanan Buckley Burns Cairns Callaghan Cowan Curle Devlin Dickson Drummond Dryburgh Edwards Falconer Frame Geddes Gildea Gilfillan Glancy Gomis Grant Hamill Hay Hemmings Henderson Hendren Hughes Jack Jones Jordan Kinnell Laing Lancaster Law Leonard Liddle Lindsay Mackenzie Malone Mbu McArthur McDowell McGarr McGlashan McGregor McLauchlan Menzies Mercer Middleton Mowbray Murphy Murray Paatelainen J. Paterson W. Paterson Philp Ja. Pollock Jo. Pollock Pullar Quinn Rankin Rankine Reid Renfrew Ritchie J. Robertson P. Robertson Ross R. Russell T. Russell Smith Steele G. Stewart W. Stewart Tait Taylor Turnbull Venters Walker Wall Walls Ward Wilson Winter Wright Yardley
Managers	Duncan Harrow Levein Matthew Rolland

Players

Managers

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