Bob Preston
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Robert Preston | ||
| Date of birth | 1895 | ||
| Place of birth | Loanhead,Scotland | ||
| Date of death | May 1945 (aged 49–50)[1] | ||
| Place of death | Northern Ireland | ||
| Position(s) | Wing half/Centre half | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| – | Bathgate | ||
| 1914–1922 | Heart of Midlothian | 127 | (9) |
| 1922–1923 | Torquay United | ||
| 1923–1928 | Plymouth Argyle | 143 | (3) |
| 1928–19?? | Torquay United | 15 | (0) |
| Managerial career | |||
| 1934–35 | Sligo Rovers | ||
| *Club domestic league appearances and goals | |||
Robert Preston(1895 – May 1945) was a Scottish professionalfootballerwho played in theScottish LeagueforHeart of Midlothianand inthe Football LeagueforPlymouth ArgyleandTorquay United.He played as awing halforcentre half.[2][3]
Career
[edit]Preston signed forHeart of MidlothianfromBathgate F.C.shortly before the outbreak of theFirst World War.[4][5]In November 1914 he was among the Hearts players who volunteered to joinSir George McCrae's newbattalion of the Royal Scots.Military service took him away from Edinburgh for five years, so it was 1919 before he made his debut for Hearts in theScottish League First Division.He remained with the club until the1922–23 season.
Preston then came to England to play forTorquay United,[6]then aSouthern Leagueclub, and moved on toThird Division SouthclubPlymouth Argylein 1923. He made 147 appearances for the club in all competitions. His last game for Argyle came at the end of the 1927–28 season, and he returned to Torquay United, by then a Football League team, for the following season.[3][7]
Personal life
[edit]After retiring from playing, Preston moved toIrelandand became a publican. He died in 1945.[1]
His elder brotherThomas[8]was also a footballer who played forAirdrieoniansand was selected for theScottish League XI.
References
[edit]- ^abAlexander, Jack (2004).McCrae's Battalion: The Story of the 16th Royal Scots.Mainstream Publishing/Random House.ISBN9781845968212.
- ^"Hearts player Bob Preston".London Hearts Supporters Club.Retrieved10 April2017.
- ^abJoyce, Michael (2004).Football League Players' Records 1888 to 1939.Nottingham: SoccerData (Tony Brown). p. 212.ISBN978-1-899468-67-6.
- ^Purdie, Tom (2014).Hearts: The Supreme Sacrifice to Hearts at War.Amberley Publishing.ISBN9781445633343.
- ^John Litster (October 2012). "A Record of pre-war Scottish League Players". Scottish Football Historian magazine.
{{cite journal}}:Cite journal requires|journal=(help) - ^"1922–23".London Hearts Supporters Club.Retrieved18 August2010.
- ^"Bob Preston".Greens on Screen.Retrieved18 August2010.
- ^Census returns - Census - Search results,ScotlandsPeople
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- 1895 births
- 1945 deaths
- Footballers from Edinburgh
- People from Loanhead
- Footballers from Midlothian
- Scottish men's footballers
- Men's association football defenders
- Heart of Midlothian F.C. players
- Torquay United F.C. players
- Plymouth Argyle F.C. players
- Scottish Football League players
- Royal Scots soldiers
- Southern Football League players
- English Football League players
- Bathgate F.C. players
- Sligo Rovers F.C. managers
- League of Ireland managers
- Scottish football managers
- British Army personnel of World War I
- McCrae's Battalion
- Military personnel from Midlothian
- Scottish football defender, 1890s birth stubs