John Murphy (footballer, born 1898)

John Murphy

Personal information
Full name	John Dickie Elliot Murphy [a]
Date of birth	1898 (1898)
Place of birth	Govan, Scotland
Height	5 ft 7 in (1.70 m) [4]
Position	Outside right
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
–	St Anthony's
1919–1925	Heart of Midlothian	142	(40)
1922	→ St Mirren (loan)	0	(0)
1925	→ Hamilton Academical (loan)	0	(0)
1925–1926	Motherwell	18	(3)
1926–1929	Kilmarnock	45	(10)
1928–1929	→ Coleraine (loan)
1929–1930	Ballymena United
1930–1931	Shelbourne
Total		205	(54)
* Club domestic league appearances and goals

John Dickie Elliot Murphy ^[a] (born 1898) was a Scottish footballer who played as an outside right. ^[5] His first and longest senior spell was with Heart of Midlothian ^[6] where he spent the better part of seven seasons (including brief loans at St Mirren and Hamilton Academical), ^[4] followed by around a year at Motherwell ^[7] and 18 months at Kilmarnock. ^[8] He then moved to the Irish leagues with Coleraine and Ballymena United in County Antrim then Dublin side Shelbourne.

Notes and references

1. His parents had yet to marry when he was born, and the certificate bears his mother's maiden surname of Elliot. ^[1] He lived with his maternal great-aunt in childhood, and on two editions of the census ^{[2] [3]} her married name Dickie was given as John's surname (it was also his middle name). He later used his father's surname Murphy.

1. Statutory registers - Births - Search results, ScotlandsPeople
2. Census returns - Census - Search results (1901), ScotlandsPeople
3. Census returns - Census - Search results (1911), ScotlandsPeople
4. Murphy, John (1925), Hamilton Academical Memory Bank
5. John Litster (October 2012). "A Record of pre-war Scottish League Players". Scottish Football Historian magazine.{{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
6. (Hearts player) John Murphy, London Hearts Supporters Club
7. John Murphy, MotherWELLnet
8. (Kilmarnock player) Murphy, John, FitbaStats