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Archie Kyle
Scottish footballer
Archibald Kyle (13 July 1883 – 21 July 1957) was a Scottish football player who played for Rangers, Blackburn Rovers and Hamilton Academical.
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Archibald Kyle | ||
| Date of birth | 13 July 1883 | ||
| Place of birth | Kinning Park, Scotland | ||
| Date of death | 21 July 1957(1957-07-21) (aged 74) | ||
| Place of death | Glasgow, Scotland | ||
| Position(s) | Centre forward | ||
| Youth career | |||
| Parkhead | |||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 1904–1908 | Rangers | 99 | (47) |
| 1908–1909 | Blackburn Rovers | 36 | (8) |
| 1909 | Bradford Park Avenue | ||
| 1910 | Bo'ness | ||
| 1910 | Linfield | ||
| 1910–1911 | Clyde | 27 | (6) |
| 1911–1914 | St Mirren | 90 | (12) |
| 1914–1918 | Hamilton Academical | 129 | (32) |
| International career | |||
| 1906–1908 | Scottish League XI[1] | 2 | (1) |
| *Club domestic league appearances and goals | |||
Kyle joined Rangers from Parkhead in 1904.[2] He was one of a number of Roman Catholic players at the club during the early 1900s.[3][4] Kyle made 110 League and Scottish Cup appearances for the club and scored 52 goals during his four-season spell. He was unable to claim any major honours in an era when rivals Celtic were dominant, the nearest being a runners-up medal from the 1904–05 Scottish Cup.[5]
He left Rangers 1908 to move to England with Blackburn Rovers and later Bradford Park Avenue before a brief stint in Ireland at Linfield. Kyle returned to Scotland and played with Clyde, St Mirren[6] and Hamilton Academical.[7]
Kyle married Letitia Hargreaves in 1905 and raised his family in Bridgeton, Glasgow. His grandson from daughter Mary "Catherine" Miller née Kyle is singer-songwriter Frankie Miller.
In 1924, he and John Browning, a former Celtic player, were found guilty of attempting to bribe Bo'ness player Peter Brown in a public house in Glasgow's Dundas Street: both men were sentenced to 60 days' hard labour.[8]
- "Archie Kyle - Scotland Football League Record from 24 Mar 1906 to 29 Feb 1908 clubs - Rangers". Londonhearts.com. Retrieved 11 April 2014.
- "Archie Kyle". Rangers FC History.co.uk. Archived from the original on 18 June 2010. Retrieved 11 March 2010.
- Catholics who signed for Rangers in the early 1900s Archie Kyle (1904–1908), Willie Kivlichan (1906–1907), Colin Mainds (1906–1907), Tom Murray (1907–1908) (Bill Murray, The Old Firm - Sectarianism, Sport and Society in Scotland (John Donald Publishers, 1984) pp. 64–5
- Ibrox left-footers, The Glasgow Herald, 15 September 1989
- "Rangers player Archie Kyle profile". Fitbastats. Retrieved 29 November 2017.
- John Litster (October 2012). "A Record of pre-war Scottish League Players". Scottish Football Historian magazine.
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- "Liverpool player John Browning profile". LFC History. Retrieved 29 November 2017.