{{short description|Scottish footballer}} {{Use dmy dates|date=October 2017}} {{Use British English|date=October 2017}} {{Infobox football biography | name = Jackie Chalmers | image = | fullname = John Chalmers<ref name="The Encyclopaedia of Stoke City"/> | birth_date = 14 August 1884<ref name="Memorabilia">{{Cite web |title=A to M |url=http://bristolroversmemorabilia.weebly.com/a-to-m1.html |access-date=2023-06-30 |website=The Bristol Rovers History Group |language=en}}</ref> | birth_place = Rutherglen, Scotland<ref name="Memorabilia" /> | death_date = {{death date and age|1947|7|5|1884|8|14|df=y}}<ref name="Memorabilia" /> | death_place = Glasgow, Scotland | position = Centre forward | years1 = 1903 | clubs1 = Rutherglen Glencairn | caps1 = | goals1 = | years2 = 1904–1905 | clubs2 = Rangers | caps2 = 1 | goals2 = 0 | years3 = 1905 | clubs3 = Beith | caps3 = | goals3 = | years4 = 1905–1907 | clubs4 = Stoke | caps4 = 40 | goals4 = 19 | years5 = 1908 | clubs5 = Bristol Rovers | caps5 = 1 | goals5 = 1 | years6 = 1908–1910 | clubs6 = Clyde | caps6 = 52 | goals6 = 25 | years7 = 1910–1912 | clubs7 = Woolwich Arsenal | caps7 = 48 | goals7 = 21 | years8 = 1912–1914 | clubs8 = Greenock Morton | caps8 = 40 | goals8 = 17 | years9 = 1913 | clubs9 = → West Stanley (loan) | caps9 = | goals9 = | years10 = 1914 | clubs10 = → Clyde (loan) | caps10 = 12 | goals10 = 10 | years11 = 1914–1915 | clubs11 = Shelbourne | caps11 = | goals11 = | years12 = 1915 | clubs12 = Cadzow St Anne's | caps12 = | goals12 = | years13 = 1917 | clubs13 = Cambuslang Rangers | caps13 = | goals13 = | totalcaps = 193 | totalgoals = 92 }} '''John Chalmers''' (14 August 1884 – 5 July 1947) was a Scottish footballer who played in the Football League for Stoke and Woolwich Arsenal.<ref name="The Encyclopaedia of Stoke City">{{cite book|last=Matthews|first=Tony|title=The Encyclopaedia of Stoke City|year=1994|publisher=Lion Press|isbn=0-9524151-0-0}}</ref>
==Career== Chalmers was born in Beith and started his career with Rutherglen Glencairn before turning professional with Rangers.<ref name="The Encyclopaedia of Stoke City"/> He moved to Stoke City in January 1906 and made an instant impact scoring five goals in five games.<ref name="The Encyclopaedia of Stoke City"/> He was the club's top scorer in the 1906–07 season, though they were relegated from the First Division.<ref name="The Encyclopaedia of Stoke City"/> In all he scored 19 goals in 40 appearances but was released in the summer of 1907. He had a spell at Southern League Bristol Rovers, before moving back north of the border to join Clyde in November 1908. In 1909–10 Chalmers was in Clyde's side that reached the Scottish Cup final, which they eventually lost to Dundee in the second replay.<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>
In October 1910 Chalmers was tempted south of the border again, signing for Woolwich Arsenal. Arsenal had been ailing in the First Division; they had only scored twice in their first six matches of the 1910–11 season and were languishing in seventeenth place. Chalmers made his debut against Bradford City on 8 October 1910 and soon had an immediate impact on Arsenal's season, scoring fifteen league goals (and one in the FA Cup, making him the club's top scorer with sixteen), as Arsenal finished a comfortable tenth.
Chalmers was a first-team starter the next season, but lost his place to Alf Common, who had been moved from inside-forward to centre-forward. Chalmers was unhappy playing for Arsenal's reserves and was transferred to Morton in March 1912.<ref name=litsterprewar/>
==Career statistics== Source:<ref>{{ENFA}}</ref>
{| class="wikitable" style="text-align: center;" |- !rowspan="2"|Club !rowspan="2"|Season !colspan="3"|League !colspan="2"|FA Cup !colspan="2"|Glasgow Cup !colspan="2"|Total |- !Division!!Apps!!Goals!!Apps!!Goals!!Apps!!Goals!!Apps!!Goals |- |Rangers |1904–05<ref>{{cite web|title=Chalmers, John|url=http://www.fitbastats.com/rangers/player.php?playerid=1886|website=Fitbastats}}</ref> |Scottish Division One |1||0||2||2||2||0||5||2 |- |rowspan="4"|Stoke |1905–06 |First Division |5||5||0||0||colspan="2"|—||5||5 |- |1906–07 |First Division |26||11||3||0||colspan="2"|—||29||11 |- |1907–08 |Second Division |9||3||0||0||colspan="2"|—||9||3 |- !colspan=2|Total !40!!19!!3!!0!!colspan="2"|—||43!!19 |- |rowspan="3"|Woolwich Arsenal |1910–11 |First Division |29||15||2||1||colspan="2"|—||31||16 |- |1911–12 |First Division |19||6||1||0||colspan="2"|—||20||6 |- !colspan=2|Total !48!!21!!3!!1!!colspan="2"|—||51!!22 |- !colspan="3"|Career Total !89!!40!!8!!3!!2!!0!!99!!43 |}
==References== ;Specific {{reflist}}
;General * {{cite book | last=Harris|first=Jeff|editor-last=Hogg|editor-first=Tony | title=Arsenal Who's Who | publisher=Independent UK Sports | year=1995 | isbn=1-899429-03-4 }}
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