Bobby Black (footballer)
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| Date of death | 4 June 2012 (aged 85) | ||||||||
| Place of death | Bristol, England | ||||||||
| Playing position | Outside right | ||||||||
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| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) | ||||||
| 1946–1952 | East Fife | 78 | (23) | ||||||
| 1952–1961 | Queen of the South | 346 | (120) | ||||||
| Total | 424 | (143) | |||||||
| National team | |||||||||
| 1954 | Scottish League XI | 1 | (2) | ||||||
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| * Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. |
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Bobby Black (c.1927 – 4 June 2012) was a Scottish footballer from Thornhill, Dumfries and Galloway who played for East Fife and Queen of the South and was also capped by the Scottish League. Black later was an all England bowls champion.
Having played at East Fife during undoubtedly the best period in the club's history Black won a League Cup medal with them in 1949–50. The Methil side made the Scottish Cup final that season and finished fourth in Scotland's top division. Two seasons later (Bobby Black's last at the club) they would surpass this league position and finish third – an achievement unsurpassed by the club and equalled only once.
Other players at the club in this era included 1938 Scottish Cup winners with East Fife Tommy Adams and Willie Laird and players who played for Scotland while with the club, Allan Brown, Henry Morris, George Aitken, Davie Duncan, Charlie Fleming and Andy Matthew. Jimmy Philp was another like Black who enjoyed Scottish League Cup success with the Methil club.
From his first season on the books at East Fife (1946–47) until his departure in 1952 Black scored 23 goals in his 78 league games for East Fife.
In 1952 he signed for his local senior side Queen of the South from Dumfries. Black left Queens in 1961 having made 346 appearances scoring 120 times to make the outside right the club's second highest scorer of all time.
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