{{short description|Scottish footballer}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}} {{Infobox football biography | name= Malcolm McPhail | image= | fullname= | height= | position= Outside left | birth_date= 1895 | birth_place= Barrhead, Scotland | death_date= {{death year and age|1975|1895}} | death_place= Paisley, Scotland | youthyears1= | youthclubs1= | years1= 1915 | clubs1= Arthurlie | caps1= 8| goals1= 5 | years2= 1915–1924 | clubs2= Kilmarnock | caps2= 245 | goals2= 55 | years3= 1924–1926 | clubs3= Morton | caps3= 36 | goals3= 3 | totalcaps= 289 | totalgoals= 63 |nationalyears1 = 1917<ref>[https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=v81AAAAAIBAJ&sjid=PqYMAAAAIBAJ&pg=1767%2C4084261 Association Football. War Funds Match | The Army XI, 4; Scottish League, 3.], The Glasgow Herald, 21 May 1917</ref> |nationalteam1 = Scottish League (wartime) |nationalcaps1 = 1 |nationalgoals1= 3 |nationalyears2 = 1919 |nationalteam2 = Scotland (wartime) |nationalcaps2 = 1 |nationalgoals2 = 0 }} '''Malcolm McPhail''' (1895 – 1975) was a Scottish footballer who played as an outside left,<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> primarily for Kilmarnock,<ref>[https://www.fitbastats.com/kilmarnock/player.php?playerid=7109 Kilmarnock player McPhail, Malcolm], FitbaStats</ref> with whom he won the Scottish Cup in 1920.<ref>{{cite web|title=Killie 3–2 Albion Rovers|url=http://www.killiefc.com/en/17-04-1920-albion-rovers-n-scottish-cup-final_49428/|publisher=Killie FC|date=|accessdate=28 May 2020|archive-date=18 August 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190818005453/https://www.killiefc.com/en/17-04-1920-albion-rovers-n-scottish-cup-final_49428/|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref name=herald20>{{cite news |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=_sRAAAAAIBAJ&sjid=JKYMAAAAIBAJ&pg=4461%2C6175898 |title=Kilmarnock, 3; Albion Rovers, 2. Scottish Cup–Final Tie |newspaper=The Glasgow Herald |date=19 April 1920 |page=13|accessdate=28 May 2020}}</ref> He was selected to play for Scotland in an unofficial 'Victory International' in 1919.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.londonhearts.com/scotlandunoff/players/malcolmwrightmcphail.html |title=Malcolm Wright McPhail [sic] |website=London Hearts Supporters' Club |date= |accessdate=28 May 2020}}</ref><ref>[https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=_stAAAAAIBAJ&sjid=JqYMAAAAIBAJ&pg=4362%2C1915370 Association Football. | Ireland v. Scotland], The Glasgow Herald, 21 April 1919</ref>
McPhail later served as a director of St Mirren.<ref name=caskie/> He was the older brother of Rangers and Scotland forward Bob McPhail.<ref>{{ cite news | url=https://www.heraldscotland.com/news/12236913.Bob_McPhail/ | title=Bob McPhail, football legend | date=29 August 2000 |work=The Herald | location=Glasgow }}</ref><ref name=caskie>[https://books.google.com/books?id=r-PgDwAAQBAJ&dq=malcolm+mcphail+morton&pg=PA33-IA41 Possilpark to Ibrox (Bob McPhail at Love Street)], Donald Caskie, eBook Partnership, 2014; {{ISBN|9781783015726}}</ref>
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{{DEFAULTSORT:McPhail, Malcolm}} Category:Date of birth uncertain Category:1895 births Category:1975 deaths Category:Footballers from Barrhead Category:Men's association football outside forwards Category:Scottish men's footballers Category:Kilmarnock F.C. players Category:Greenock Morton F.C. players Category:Arthurlie F.C. players Category:Scottish Football League players Category:Scotland men's wartime international footballers Category:Scottish Football League representative players {{Scotland-footy-forward-1890s-stub}}