Archie McLeod
{{short description|Scottish footballer (1908–1990)}}
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Archibald McAlo McLeod{{cite book|title=Fasti Ecclesiæ Scoticanæ: The Succession of Ministers in the Church of Scotland from the Reformation, Volume 10|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=wqNbAAAAMAAJ&q=%22Alexander+McDonald%22+bishopbriggs|publisher=Oliver and Boyd|year=1981|isbn=9780715204955}} (15 May 1908 – 14 November 1990)[https://www.scotlandspeople.gov.uk/record-results?search_type=people&dl_cat=statutory&dl_rec=statutory-births&surname=McLeod&surname_so=exact&forename=Archibald&forename_so=starts&sex=M&from_year=1905&to_year=1909&county=GLASGOW%20CITY&record_type=stat_births Statutory registers – Births – Search results], Scotland's People (National Records of Scotland{{cite news |title=Dr Who to play Derry murderer – Derry Journal |url=https://www.derryjournal.com/news/dr-who-to-play-derry-murderer-1-2141588 |access-date=6 March 2021 |work=Derry Journal |publisher=JPIMedia Ltd |date=23 October 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190802210321/https://www.derryjournal.com/news/dr-who-to-play-derry-murderer-1-2141588 |archive-date=2 August 2019}} was a Scottish footballer who played in the forward position.
Career
McLeod signed for Partick Thistle from Parkhead Juniors (where he had been capped for the Scotland Juniors team){{cite web |url=http://www.scottish-football-historical-archive.co.uk/scotlandjuniors.xls |title=Scotland Junior International Results and Lineups|work=Scottish Football Historical Archive |accessdate=10 April 2017}} in August 1933.{{cite news |title=To shoot for Thistle |newspaper=Daily Express |date=31 August 1933 |page=12}}[http://partickthistleahistory.wikifoundry.com/page/1933+-+Archie+McLeod A sharp shootist], 1933, via Partick Thistle History Archive He was mainly a backup at Firhill, making three appearances in the 1933–34 Scottish First Division (scoring twice against Clyde), plus matches for the reserves in the Scottish Football Alliance[http://partickthistleahistory.wikifoundry.com/page/Res+v+Bo%27ness+%28H%29+Oct+1933 Partick Thistle 'A' v Bo'Ness], Linlithgowshire Gazette, 27 October 1933 before leaving for Northern Ireland to further his career, joining Derry City.{{cite book |author1=Emms, Steve |author2=Wells, Richard |name-list-style=amp |title=Scottish Football League Players' Records 1890/91 to 1938/39 |year=2007 |publisher=Tony Brown |place=Nottingham |isbn=978-1-899468-66-9 |page=169}} In the 1934–35 Irish League season, he was the top goalscorer for Derry, netting 57 times, a record that still stands today. That season, he also helped the team to their first trophy with a Dunville Cup triumph,[http://photosales.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/media/DgJH6t8JPXgsCUQB9YMDrg..a Team photograph] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160306015404/http://photosales.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/media/DgJH6t8JPXgsCUQB9YMDrg..a |date=6 March 2016 }} – Belfast Telegraph which they repeated in 1937.
An injury ended his football career in 1938 and he returned home to Glasgow where he worked as a machinist with John Brown & Company shipbuilders.{{cite news|title=Who Do You Think You Are? – David Tennant|url=http://www.whodoyouthinkyouaremagazine.com/episode/david-tennant|publisher=Who Do You Think You Are Magazine}}{{cite web|url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/whodoyouthinkyouare/past-stories/david-tennant.shtml |title=David Tennant|work=Who Do You Think You Are?|publisher=BBC|accessdate=9 September 2012}}
Personal life
McLeod was the grandson of cotters from the Isle of Mull who moved south to Glasgow due to the Highland Clearances. While playing for Derry City, he married Nellie Blair, daughter of a prominent local Protestant family, in 1938, and had a daughter Helen before moving back to Scotland. Helen (died in 2007) was married to retired Church of Scotland minister and former Moderator Alexander "Sandy" McDonald (1937–2016) and they had three children, the youngest of whom is actor David Tennant.
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Category:Footballers from Glasgow
Category:Scottish men's footballers
Category:Derry City F.C. players
Category:Partick Thistle F.C. players
Category:NIFL Premiership players
Category:Scottish Football League players
Category:Men's association football forwards
Category:Parkhead F.C. players
Category:Scotland men's junior international footballers
Category:Scottish Junior Football Association players
Category:Davison–Tennant family
Category:20th-century Scottish sportsmen
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