Archie Kyle

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Archibald Kyle (13 July 1883 – 21 July 1957) was a Scottish football player who played for Rangers, Blackburn Rovers and Hamilton Academical.

Career

Kyle joined Rangers from Parkhead in 1904.[1] He was one of a number of Roman Catholic players at the club during the early 1900s.[2][3] 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.[4]

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[5] and Hamilton Academical.[6]

Personal life

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.[7]

References

  1. 1."Archie Kyle". Rangers FC History.co.uk. Archived from the original on 18 June 2010. Retrieved 11 March 2010.
  2. 2.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
  3. 3.Ibrox left-footers, The Glasgow Herald, 15 September 1989
  4. 4."Rangers player Archie Kyle profile". Fitbastats. Retrieved 29 November 2017.
  5. 5.John Litster (October 2012). "A Record of pre-war Scottish League Players". Scottish Football Historian magazine.
  6. 6.Kyle, Archie, Hamilton Academical Memory Bank
  7. 7."Liverpool player John Browning profile". LFC History. Retrieved 29 November 2017.