Rabbie Beveridge

{{Short description|Scottish footballer (1877–1901)}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}} {{Infobox football biography | name = Rabbie Beveridge | image = | fullname = Robert Beveridge<ref name="ENFA">{{ENFA}}</ref> | birth_date = 24 June 1877<ref name="ENFA"/> | birth_place = Polmadie, Scotland<ref name="ENFA"/> | death_date = {{death date and age|1901|10|11|1877|06|24|df=y}}<ref name="ENFA"/> | death_place = Gorbals, Scotland | position = Centre forward | years1 = 1894–1895 | clubs1 = Maryhill Harp | caps1 = |goals1 = | years2 = 1895–1899 | clubs2 = Third Lanark | caps2 = 58 |goals2 = 22 | years3 = 1899–1900 | clubs3 = Nottingham Forest | caps3 = 32 |goals3 = 5 | years4 = 1900–1901 | clubs4 = Everton | caps4 = 4 |goals4 = 0 | totalcaps = 94 | totalgoals = 27 }} '''Robert Beveridge''' (24 June 1877 – 11 October 1901) was a Scottish footballer who played as a centre forward in the Football League for Everton and Nottingham Forest.<ref>{{cite book|last=Joyce|first=Michael|title=Football League Players' Records 1888 to 1939|year=2004|publisher=SoccerData|isbn=1-899468-67-6}}</ref><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>

He came into consideration for an international cap at the age of 20 while with Third Lanark, taking part in one of the trial matches in 1898,<ref>[https://www.londonhearts.com/scores/images/1898/1898030504.htm International Trial Matches At Glasgow], The Scotsman, 7 March 1898, via London Hearts Supporters Club</ref> but this did not lead on to selection for Scotland. He died of phthisis pulmonalis (tuberculosis) aged 24.<ref name="spdeath">[https://www.scotlandspeople.gov.uk/record-results?search_type=people&dl_cat=statutory&dl_rec=statutory-deaths&surname=Beveridge&surname_so=syn&forename=Robert%20&forename_so=syn&other_surname_so=exact&mmsurname_so=exact&sex=M&birth_year=1877&birth_year_range=2&record_type=stat_deaths Statutory registers - Deaths - Search results], ScotlandsPeople</ref>

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