Bob Smellie

Bob Smellie

Personal information
Full name	Robert Smellie
Date of birth	22 December 1867
Place of birth	Blantyre, Scotland
Date of death	14 October 1951(1951-10-14) (aged 83)
Place of death	East Kilbride, Scotland
Position(s)	Left back
Youth career
	Clydesdale Colts
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
1884–1885	Hamilton Academical
1885–1895	Queen's Park
1895	Motherwell
1896	St Bernards
1903	Hamilton Academical	1	(0)
International career
1887–1893	Scotland	6	(0)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Robert Smellie (22 December 1867 – 14 October 1951) was a Scottish footballer who played for Hamilton Academical,^[1] Queen's Park,^[2] Motherwell, St Bernard's, Corinthian^[3] and Scotland, as a left back.^[4][5] He was a Scottish Cup winner with Queen's Park in 1890 and 1893.^[6] He was later the Queen's Park club president; away from football he was an auctioneer in the farming industry, working in a family business which continued into the 21st century.^[7]

His career has sometimes erroneously included details of another player of the same name who played in the same position for Annbank, Sunderland^[8][9][10] and Walsall Town Swifts in the mid-1890s, based on the assumption that as an amateur he was able to move fairly freely between different clubs. However, that did not apply to professional English Football League clubs, and evidence such as both men playing matches for different clubs on the same day^[11] shows them to be separate people.