David Ness

{{short description|Scottish footballer}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}} {{Infobox football biography | name= David Ness | image= | fullname= David Hogg Ness<ref name="TTA">[http://www.thethistlearchive.net/davie-ness Davie Ness], The Thistle Archive. Retrieved 30 December 2021</ref> | position= Outside right | birth_date= 15 August 1902<ref name=lhsfl>[https://www.londonhearts.com/SFL/players/davieness.html (SFL player) Davie Ness], London Hearts Supporters Club</ref> | birth_place= Irvine, Scotland | death_date= 1974 | death_place= Saltcoats, Scotland | height = 5ft 8in<ref name="TTA"/> | youthyears1= | youthclubs1= | years1= – | clubs1= Irvine Meadow | caps1= | goals1= | years2= 1923 | clubs2= Nithsdale Wanderers | caps2= | goals2= | years3= 1923–1935 | clubs3= Partick Thistle | caps3= 340 | goals3= 76 | totalcaps= | totalgoals = | nationalyears1= 1934 | nationalteam1= Scottish League XI | nationalcaps1= 1 | nationalgoals1= 1 }} '''David Hogg Ness''' (15 August 1902 – 1974) was a Scottish footballer who played as an outside right; his only club at the professional level was Partick Thistle, where he spent twelve seasons (all in the top division),<ref name=litsterprewar/> making 423 appearances for the ''Jags'' in all competitions and scoring 97 goals.<ref>[http://partickthistleahistory.wikifoundry.com/page/Players+N Players N], Partick Thistle History Archive</ref>

After gradually ousting the 1921 Scottish Cup Final goalscorer John Blair from the position, he went on to play for the club in the 1930 Scottish Cup Final which they lost to Rangers after a replay,<ref>[https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=O_49AAAAIBAJ&sjid=XUkMAAAAIBAJ&pg=3094%2C2730488 The Cup Final {{!}} Rangers Win Replay at Hampden], The Glasgow Herald, 17 April 1930</ref> but did manage to claim winner's medals in the Glasgow Merchants Charity Cup in 1927<ref>[http://partickthistleahistory.wikifoundry.com/page/v+Rangers+GCC+Final+1927 Rout of the Rangers in the Charity Cup Final] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150503224146/http://partickthistleahistory.wikifoundry.com/page/v+Rangers+GCC+Final+1927 |date=3 May 2015 }}, The Sunday Post, 15 May 1927, via Partick Thistle History Archive</ref> and the one-off Glasgow Dental Hospital Cup in 1928, both against the same opponents.<ref>[http://partickthistleahistory.wikifoundry.com/page/1928-29+-+Glasgow+Dental+Cup Football {{!}} Partick Thistle, 2; Rangers, 0 {{!}} Glasgow Dental Hospital Cup–Final Tie] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150503230729/http://partickthistleahistory.wikifoundry.com/page/1928-29+-+Glasgow+Dental+Cup |date=3 May 2015 }}, The Glasgow Herald, 11 December 1928, via Partick Thistle History Archive</ref> Towards the end of his spell, a replacement was signed in the shape of Alex McSpadyen, who went on to become a Scotland international within a few years.

Ness was selected once for the Scottish Football League XI, scoring in that match against the Irish League XI in 1934,<ref name=lhsfl/> and played in three editions of the Glasgow Football Association's annual challenge match against Sheffield.<ref name=litsterprewar>{{cite magazine|title=A Record of pre-war Scottish League Players|author=John Litster|magazine=Scottish Football Historian magazine|date=October 2012}}</ref><ref>[http://partickthistleahistory.wikifoundry.com/page/Player+Representative+Honours Player Representative Honours] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190121132610/http://partickthistleahistory.wikifoundry.com/page/Player+Representative+Honours |date=21 January 2019 }}, Partick Thistle History Archive</ref>

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