Bob McCartney

{{short description|Scottish footballer}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}} {{similar names|Robert McCartney (disambiguation){{!}}Robert McCartney}} {{Infobox football biography | name= Bob McCartney | image= | fullname= | height= | position= Defender | birth_date= | birth_place= | death_date= | death_place= | youthyears1= | youthclubs1= | years1= 1890–1895 | clubs1= Leith Athletic | caps1= 73 | goals1= 1 | years2= 1895–1899 |clubs2= Heart of Midlothian | caps2= 54 | goals2= 0 |years3= 1899–1901 |clubs3= Leith Athletic | caps3= 21| goals3= 0 | years4= – |clubs4= | caps4= | goals4= | totalcaps = 148 | totalgoals = 1 |nationalyears1= 1898 |nationalteam1= Scottish League XI |nationalcaps1= 1 |nationalgoals1= 0 }} '''Robert McCartney''' was a Scottish footballer who played as a defender. He began and ended his senior career with Leith Athletic,<ref name=litsterprewar>{{cite journal|title=A Record of pre-war Scottish League Players|author=John Litster|publisher=Scottish Football Historian magazine|date=October 2012}}</ref> spending his prime years at Heart of Midlothian<ref>{{cite web|url=https://londonhearts.com/scores/newplayers/h00345.html|title=[Hearts player] Bob McCartney |website=London Hearts Supporters' Club|accessdate=19 January 2021}}</ref> where he won the Scottish Cup in 1896<ref>[https://www.heraldscotland.com/news/13058031.from-the-archive-looking-back-at-the-last-hearts-v-hibs-cup-final/ From the archive: looking back at the last Hearts v Hibs Cup Final], The Herald, 15 May 2012</ref> and the Scottish Football League championship in 1896–97, playing in all but one of the 18 fixtures; he also claimed two winner's medals each from the minor Rosebery Charity Cup (to add to one from his first spell at Leith)<ref>[https://playupliverpool.com/1891/06/27/leith-athletic-v-hearts-3-2-rosebery-charity-cup-final-june-27-1891/ Leith Athletic v Hearts 3-2 (Rosebery Charity Cup Final: June 27 1891)], Play Up Liverpool</ref> and East of Scotland Shield.

McCartney was selected once for the Scottish League XI in January 1898.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.londonhearts.com/SFL/players/bobmccartney.html|title=[SFL player] Bob McCartney |website=London Hearts Supporters' Club|accessdate=19 January 2021}}</ref><ref>[https://www.vintagefootballers.com/product/mccartney-bob-image-leith-1895/ McCartney Bob Image 1 Leith Athletic 1895], Vintage Footballers</ref>

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