Andrew Anderson (footballer)

For the Partick Thistle player, see Andy Anderson (footballer).

Andrew Anderson
Personal information
Full name Andrew Smellie Anderson
Date of birth (1909-02-21)21 February 1909
Place of birth Airdrie, Scotland
Date of death 18 August 1991(1991-08-18) (aged 82)[1]
Place of death Airdrie, Scotland
Height 5 ft 9 in (1.75 m)[2]
Position(s) Right back
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1929–1939 Baillieston Juniors
1929–1941 Heart of Midlothian 315 (4)
International career
1933–1938 Scotland 23 (0)
1934–1936 Scottish League XI 4 (0)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Andrew Smellie Anderson (21 February 1909 – 18 August 1991) was a Scottish footballer who played for Heart of Midlothian and the Scotland national team.

Anderson, a right back born in Airdrie, joined Hearts in 1929 from Baillieston Juniors[3] and remained with the Edinburgh club for the remainder of his career, retiring in 1941 at the age of 32, although his last competitive appearances were prior to the outbreak of World War II in 1939.[2] Including all cups and wartime tournaments, he made 497 appearances for the club, with 354 of those in the Scottish Football League and Scottish Cup.[2] He never won a major honour, the closest he got being three Scottish Cup semi-final defeats and a runners-up finish in the league in 1937–38, three points behind winners Celtic.[3]

He won 23 caps for Scotland between 1933 and 1938[4] (also participating in an SFA tour of North America in 1935)[5][6] and four caps for the Scottish League XI.[7]

Anderson's brother-in-law Jock White, also an Airdrie man, played for Hearts and Scotland several years before Anderson. White returned to Hearts from Leeds United in 1930 and the two played together for four seasons.[8]

After his playing retirement, Anderson worked as a joiner.

  1. ^ Statutory registers - Deaths - Search results Archived 27 July 2020 at the Wayback Machine, ScotlandsPeople
  2. ^ a b c (Hearts player) Andy Anderson) Archived 14 September 2018 at the Wayback Machine, London Hearts Supporters Club
  3. ^ a b John Litster (October 2012). "A Record of pre-war Scottish League Players". Scottish Football Historian magazine. {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  4. ^ (Scotland player) Andy Anderson), London Hearts Supporters Club
  5. ^ "Scottish Football Association Tour, 1935". Canadian Soccer History. Retrieved 27 July 2020.
  6. ^ Neil Morrison (4 January 2018). "British "FA XI" Tours: 1935 Tour of Canada and USA by the Scottish FA". Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation. Retrieved 27 July 2020.
  7. ^ (SFL player) Andrew Anderson), London Hearts Supporters Club
  8. ^ John White, Leeds United F.C. History