Personal information | |||
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Full name | James Hill Galt[1] | ||
Date of birth | 11 August 1885 | ||
Place of birth | Saltcoats, Scotland | ||
Date of death | 17 November 1935[2][3] | (aged 50)||
Place of death | Whitecraigs, Scotland | ||
Position(s) | Centre half | ||
Senior career* | |||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
Ardrossan Winton Rovers | |||
–1906 | Ardeer Thistle | ||
1906–1914 | Rangers | 185 | (5) |
1914–1916 | Everton | 32 | (2) |
1916 | Partick Thistle | 3 | (0) |
1920 | Third Lanark | 0 | (0) |
Alloa Athletic | |||
International career | |||
1908 | Scotland | 2 | (1) |
1911–1912 | Scottish League XI | 2 | (0) |
1916 | Scotland (wartime) | 1 | (1) |
*Club domestic league appearances and goals |
James Hill Galt (11 August 1885 – 17 November 1935) was a Scottish professional footballer who played as a left half for Rangers and Everton.[4]
Galt played with Rangers for eight years between 1906 and 1914.[5] He made 240 appearances and scored six goals for the club.[5] During his time at Ibrox he won three Scottish league championships, two Glasgow Cups and three Glasgow Merchants Charity Cups, as well as the Edinburgh Exhibition Cup in 1908.[6]
Galt swapped Glasgow for Merseyside in 1914 and joined Everton. He made 36 appearances for the Toffees and scored four goals.[7] Despite captaining them to the First Division title,[8] he left after only one season when World War I took hold and official football was suspended in England, returning to Scotland to play for Partick Thistle and Third Lanark. He guested for Fulham during the war.[9]
Galt won his two Scotland caps in May 1908.[10] He scored on his second appearance, against Ireland on 14 May.[10] Galt also played and scored in one unofficial wartime international, against England on 13 May 1916.[11]
During the First World War he served with Army Service Corps and latterly the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders as a Second Lieutenant.[12] He was wounded in action, suffering severe shell-shock, which meant that he did not resume his football career to any great extent after the war ended.[4]
Galt was also an accomplished golfer: he battled for the 'Scottish Professional Footballers Golf Championship' with Jimmy Lawson of Dundee who later switched sports to turn professional in the United States.[13]
After retiring from football, Galt ran a series of billiard halls with ex-Rangers teammate Jimmy Gordon.[14]