George Hamilton (footballer)
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Date of birth | 7 December 1917 | ||
| Place of birth | Irvine, Scotland | ||
| Date of death | May 2001 (aged 83) | ||
| Place of death | Aberdeen, Scotland | ||
| Height | 5 ft 10 in (1.78 m) | ||
| Playing position | Inside forward | ||
| Youth career | |||
| 1934–1937 | Irvine Meadow | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 1937–1938 | Queen of the South | 31 | (9) |
| 1938–1947 | Aberdeen | 34 | (19) |
| 1947–1948 | Heart of Midlothian | 13 | (6) |
| 1948–1955 | Aberdeen | 130 | (66) |
| 1955 | Hamilton Academical | 11 | (2) |
| National team | |||
| 1946–1954 | Scotland | 5 | (4) |
| 1947–1951 | Scottish League XI | 3 | (2) |
| * Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. |
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George Hamilton (7 December 1917 – May 2001) was a Scottish international footballer, who spent most of his 21-year career with Aberdeen. He also played for Queen of the South, Heart of Midlothian and Hamilton Academical.
Born in Irvine, Hamilton started out with local junior side Irvine Meadow before moving to Dumfries to join Queen of the South. Hamilton was comfortable with the ball on either foot and had an obvious love of playing the game. After a single season with Queens (scoring nine goals in 31 league games) Aberdeen managed by Dave Halliday (another ex-Queen of the South player) purchased him for £3000 in April 1938.
Hamilton would prove as shrewd a signing as Halliday would ever make as he would emerge as an inspirational player of real quality.
Like many of his contemporaries, Hamilton's career was significantly disrupted by the Second World War and, when League football in Scotland went into abeyance in 1939, he returned to his native Ayrshire. Eventually, temporary Regional Leagues were established, and, due to war-time travel restrictions, players would guest for local sides. This resulted in Hamilton turning out for first Ayr United, then Rangers between 1940 and 1945.
Hamilton returned to Aberdeen at the end of global hostilities and enjoyed his most successful period, lifting the transitional 1945–46 League Cup then scoring the winner in the 1947 Scottish Cup Final against Hibernian. Despite this, when Heart of Midlothian offered £8000 plus the younger Archie Kelly for his services in December 1947, the Reds considered it good value for a 30-year-old, and accepted.
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