- Bob McPhail
Football player infobox
playername = Bob McPhail
fullname = Robert Lowe McPhail
dateofbirth =October 25 1905
cityofbirth =Barrhead
countryofbirth =Scotland
dateofdeath = Death date and age|2000|8|24|1905|10|25
position =Striker
years = 19??-1927
1927-1940
clubs = Airdrieonians
Rangers
caps(goals) =
nationalyears = 1927-1937
nationalteam = Scotland
nationalcaps(goals) = 17 (7)
pcupdate = 1 August 07
ntupdate = 1 August 07Robert Lowe "Bob" McPhail (
25 October 1905 -24 August 2000 ) was a Scottish professional footballer who played for Airdrieonians and Rangers.Born in
Barrhead , Bob McPhail started his career at Glasgow Junior side Pollok, before signing for Airdrie, where at 18 he helped them to aScottish Cup triumph in 1924. He was signed by Rangers in 1927 for a then substantial fee of £5,000. He went on to become one of the most prolific strikers ever to play for the club, scoring 261 goals in 408 appearances.He made his first appearance for Rangers on
August 13 1927 in a 3-2 win over Aberdeen at Pittodrie. He netted his first goals onSeptember 3 1927 , a double in a 5-1 win over St Johnstone at Ibrox. Rangers won both the League title and theScottish Cup in McPhail's first season with the club and McPhail scored a total of 23 goals in 42 appearances, including a goal in the 4-0 win over Celtic in the Scottish Cup final.McPhail continued to be an important member of Rangers' team in what was a highly successful period for the club. During McPhail's 12 years at Ibrox, he won 9 League championship's and 6 Scottish Cup's - a record number of Scottish Cup wins for a Rangers player and a record shared with former Celtic stars
Jimmy McMenemy andBilly McNeill .He scored a total of 230 League goals for the club, a record which stood for over 50 years before being broken by
Ally McCoist in 1997.McPhail also had a successful Scotland career, winning 17 caps and scoring 7 goals, most notably a double in a 3-1 win over England at Hampden on
17 April 1937 in front of a Hampden record crowd of 149,415.McPhail died in August 2000, two months before what would have been his 95th birthday. He was the last surviving member of the great Rangers team of the late 1920s early 1930s.
International goals
:"Scores and results list Scotland's goal tally first."
External links
*SFA Profile|id=113410
* [http://www.londonhearts.com/scotland/players/robertlowmcphail.html International stats] at Londonhearts.com
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