Jack Borthwick (footballer)
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | John James Blacklaw Borthwick[1] | ||
| Date of birth | 15 February 1886 | ||
| Place of birth | Leith, Scotland | ||
| Date of death | 1942 (aged 55–56) | ||
| Playing position | Centre half | ||
| Youth career | |||
| Royal Oak | |||
| Edinburgh Clifton | |||
| Wemyss Violet | |||
| Lochgelly United | |||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 1907–1908 | Hibernian | 30 | (0) |
| 1908–1911 | Everton | 25 | (0) |
| 1911–1915 | Millwall Athletic | ||
| East Fife | |||
| Cowdenbeath | |||
| Hibernian | |||
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* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. | |||
John James Blacklaw "Jack" Borthwick (15 February 1886–1942) was a Scottish professional football centre half who played in the Football League for Everton.[1] He also played in the Scottish League for Hibernian.[2]
Personal life
Borthwick served as a private with the 17th (Service) Battalion of the Duke of Cambridge's Own (Middlesex Regiment) during the First World War and was wounded in the head at Delville Wood in 1916.[3] He described his injuries in a letter to Bert Lipsham: "my head has been trepanned, as the skull was knocked in. The cut extends from nearly the top of my head down to my eyebrow. It was a near thing of losing my right eye".[4]
References
- 1 2 Joyce, Michael (2012). Football League Players' Records 1888 to 1939. Nottingham: Tony Brown. p. 32. ISBN 190589161X.
- ↑ "Hibernian Player John Borthwick Details". www.fitbastats.com. Retrieved 2016-03-10.
- ↑ Riddoch, Andrew; Kemp, David (2010). When the Whistle Blows: The Story of the Footballers' Battalion in the Great War. Sparkford, Yeovil, Somerset: Haynes Publishing. pp. 124–125. ISBN 978-0857330772.
- ↑ Riddoch & Kemp 2010, p. 146.
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