James Gillespie (22 March 1868 – 5 August 1932) was a Scottish footballer who played for Clyde, Sunderland Albion, Sunderland, Third Lanark, Ayr and Scotland.
Football career
Gillespie, an outside right, joined Sunderland Albion from Clyde in 1891, moving on to Sunderland in 1892 when Albion folded. Gillespie won the English league championship twice with Sunderland, in 1893 and 1895, and won the 1895 World Championship. He scored a total of 57 goals in 146 appearances for the club in all official competitions.
He returned to Scotland in 1897 with Third Lanark and it was with the Glasgow club that he won his only international cap aged 30. Despite scoring a hat-trick in Scotland's 5–2 win over Wales on 19 March 1898 (with the others from fellow debutant James McKee), he was never capped again for his country. Away from football he worked as an upholsterer and was based in Bearsden.
Honours
Sunderland
- Football League champions: 1892–93, 1894–95
See also
- List of Scotland national football team hat-tricks
References
