Personal information | |||
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Place of birth | British India | ||
Position(s) | Forward | ||
Senior career* | |||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
Calcutta Rangers | |||
International career | |||
1938 | India | 5 | (8) |
*Club domestic league appearances and goals |
R. Lumsden was an Indian footballer, who played for the India national football team as a striker.
Lumsden played for Calcutta Rangers in the Calcutta Football League. [1] [2]
He was India's first ever hat-trick scorer. [3] [4] [5] He scored it against Australia national football team during a friendly match on 24 September 1938. His hat-trick includes a penalty at the 46th minutes. [6] [7] [8]
Lumsden scored eight official goals for India from five international friendly matches against Australia during the Australia tour, considered as first ever international tour of the national side. [6] [7] He also scored two more hat-tricks and a total of 10 goals from 11 matches during that tour from some friendly matches against clubs and Australian state teams. [9] [10] [11]
Goal | Date | Venue | Opponent | Score | Result | Competition |
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1 | 3 September 1938 | Royal Agricultural Show Ground, Sydney, Australia | ![]() | 3–4 | 3–5 | Friendly |
2 | 10 September 1938 | Royal Brisbane Exhibition Ground, Brisbane, Australia | ![]() | 4–4 | 4–4 | Friendly |
3 | 17 September 1938 | Newcastle Sports Ground, Newcastle, Australia | ![]() | 2–1 | 4–1 | Friendly |
4 | 3–1 † | |||||
5 | 24 September 1938 | Royal Agricultural Show Ground, Sydney, Australia | ![]() | 1–3 | 4–5 | Friendly |
6 | 2–3 | |||||
7 | 3–4 † | |||||
8 | 1 October 1938 | Melbourne Showgrounds, Victoria, Australia | ![]() | 1–2 | 1–3 | Friendly |
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