Andy Aitken
Personal information
Full name Andrew Irving Aitken[1]
Date of birth (1919-10-15)15 October 1919
Place of birth Cathcart, Scotland
Date of death 8 June 2000(2000-06-08) (aged 80)[2]
Place of death Glasgow, Scotland[3]
Position(s) Inside right
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
0000–1939 Shawfield
1939–1944 Queen's Park 116 (29)
1944–1945 Third Lanark
1945–1946 Hamilton Academical
1946–1949 Queen's Park 56 (26)
International career
1948 Great Britain 1 (1)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Andrew Irving Aitken (15 October 1919 – 8 June 2000) was a Scottish amateur footballer who made over 170 appearances in the Scottish League for Queen's Park as an inside right.[3][4][5][6] He represented Great Britain at the 1948 Summer Olympics.[7][8][9]

Personal life

Prior to and during the Second World War, Aitken worked for David Colville & Sons in Motherwell.[10]

References

  1. ↑ Litster, John. Record of Pre-War Scottish League Players. Norwich: PM Publications.
  2. ↑ Crampsey, Bob (15 August 2000). "Andy Aitken". The Herald. Newsquest. Retrieved 3 November 2013.
  3. 1 2 "Aitken, Andrew Irving". QPFC.com – A Historical Queen's Park FC Website. Retrieved 25 July 2018.
  4. ↑ Andy Aitken at Post War English & Scottish Football League A–Z Player's Database
  5. ↑ "1945–46". Hamilton Academical Memory Bank. Retrieved 25 July 2018.
  6. ↑ "Aitken, Andy (1945)". Hamilton Academical Memory Bank. Retrieved 21 November 2020.
  7. ↑ "Andrew Aitken". 11v11.com. Retrieved 6 November 2020.
  8. ↑ "Andy Aitken". Team GB. Retrieved 21 November 2020.
  9. ↑ "Andy Aitken". Olympedia. Retrieved 14 October 2021.
  10. ↑ Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Andy Aitken". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 18 April 2020. Retrieved 17 November 2017.


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