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Robert Walker (Third Lanark footballer)

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Robert Walker
Youth career
–1875 Queen's Park[1]
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1875–1877 3rd Lanark RV 0 (0)
1877–1878 Parkgrove 0 (0)
Total 0 (0)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Robert Walker was a Scottish footballer who was one of the first black players of the sport.[2] He played in the late 1870s for Parkgrove (alongside fellow black player Andrew Watson) and between 1875 and 1877 for 3rd Lanark RV (with whom he was a runner-up in the 1876 Scottish Cup Final).[3][1] He took part in two trials for the Scotland national football team (1876 and 1877),[4][5] but this did not lead to a full cap.[6]

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References

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  1. ^ a b "Scotland's first black footballer: Robert Walker, the 'curly-haired son of Africa'". Scottish Sport History. Retrieved 11 January 2021.
  2. ^ Andrew Downie (15 February 2017). "Strathbungo's Sharpshooters: Third Lanark". Bygone Bungo. Retrieved 17 September 2018.
  3. ^ Richard McBrearty. "The world's earliest known black footballers". Show Racism the Red Card. Retrieved 17 August 2020.
  4. ^ International Trial Match., The Glasgow Herald, 21 February 1876
  5. ^ Football. | Matches Played On Saturday., The Glasgow Herald, 19 February 1877
  6. ^ John Litster (October 2012). "A Record of pre-war Scottish League Players". Scottish Football Historian magazine.