George Ormond

This article is about the 1910s Scottish footballer. For the football coach convicted of offences against children, see United Kingdom football sexual abuse scandal § George Ormond.

George Ormond
Personal information
Full name George Matthew Ormond
Date of birth 15 December 1889
Place of birth Arbroath, Scotland
Date of death 25 July 1980(1980-07-25) (aged 90)
Place of death Greenock, Scotland
Position(s) Left back
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1911–1914 Rangers 53 (0)
1914–1920 Morton   179 (0)
1920–1921 Arbroath  
Total 232 (0)
International career
1917[1] Scottish League (wartime) 1 (0)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

George Matthew Ormond (15 December 1889 – 25 July 1980) was a Scottish footballer who played as a left back in the Scottish Football League for Rangers and Morton.[2]

He won the Scottish league title in the 1911–12 and 1912–13 seasons with Rangers,[3] and missed only one match for Morton when they finished runners-up in 1916–17, the highest position ever achieved by the Greenock club (they were also fourth and third in the two prior seasons and fourth and third again in the two following seasons, easily the strongest run in their history).[4]

In knockout competitions, Rangers won the Glasgow Cup, then seen as an important trophy, in each of the three seasons Ormond was at Ibrox but he was not selected for any of the finals, with Andrew Richmond, John Robertson and Harry Muir selected on each occasion. However, Ormond did appear in two finals during World War I – the War Fund Shield was played for twice with Morton reaching the final both times, winning against Rangers in 1915[5] then losing to Celtic three years later.[6] Ormond had left the club a short time before their greatest triumph, the Scottish Cup win (again over his previous employers Rangers) in 1921. He ended his career with a short spell with hometown club Arbroath, then playing outwith the SFL in the Scottish Football Alliance.[4]

In 2018, Ormond's 1911–12 league winner's medal was sold at auction for £7,700.[2][7]

  1. ^ Association Football. War Funds Match | The Army XI, 4; Scottish League, 3., The Glasgow Herald, 21 May 1917
  2. ^ a b Historic Rangers medal from before World War One to go under the hammer in Glasgow, Glasgow Live, 22 August 2018
  3. ^ Rangers player Ormond, George, FitbaStats
  4. ^ 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)
  5. ^ Football: War Shield Final, Glasgow Herald, 29 April 1915
  6. ^ Association football | War Fund Shield–Final Tie, Glasgow Herald, 6 May 1918
  7. ^ Historic pre-WWI Rangers medal sells for £7700, McTear's Auctioneers, 2018