John Gillies (footballer)

{{short description|Scottish footballer}}

{{Use dmy dates|date=February 2025}}

{{Use British English|date=May 2016}}

{{Infobox football biography

| name = John Gillies

| fullname = John Crawford Gillies

| birth_date = 22 October 1918

| birth_place = Glasgow, Scotland

| death_date = {{death date and age |1991|11|4|1918|10|22|df=y}}

| death_place = Glasgow, Scotland

| position = Outside left

| years1 = {{0|0000}}–1936

| clubs1 = Shawfield

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| years2 = 1936–1946

| clubs2 = Clyde

| caps2 = 83

| goals2 = 19

| years3 = 1940–1944

| clubs3 = → Heart of Midlothian (guest)

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| years4 = 1941

| clubs4 = → Middlesbrough (guest)

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| years5 = 1941

| clubs5 = → Third Lanark (guest)

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| years6 = 1945–1946

| clubs6 = → St Mirren (guest)

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| years7 = 1946–1947

| clubs7 = Brentford

| caps7 = 5

| goals7 = 0

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| clubs8 = Morton

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John Crawford Gillies (22 October 1918 – 4 November 1991), sometimes known as Jackie Gillies, was a Scottish professional footballer who played as an outside left in the Scottish League for Clyde.{{Hugman|7291|accessdate=14 March 2017}}{{Cite web |title=Jackie Gillies – Hearts Career – from 10 Feb 1940 to 15 Apr 1944 |url=http://www.londonhearts.com/scores/players/gilliesjackie.html |access-date=13 June 2016 |website=www.londonhearts.com}} He toured Canada and the US with the Scottish FA representative team in September 1939 and also briefly played in England for Brentford.{{Cite web |title=British FA XI Tours |url=https://www.rsssf.org/tablesb/britishfatours.html |access-date=13 June 2016 |website=RSSSF}}{{Cite book |last=Haynes |first=Graham |title=Timeless Bees: Brentford F.C. Who's Who 1920–2006 |last2=Coumbe |first2=Frank |publisher=Yore Publications |year=2006 |isbn=978-0955294914 |page=65}}{{Cite web |title=Player Appearances and goalscoring records – G |url=http://sfha.org.uk/Appearance%20Records%20-%20G.doc |access-date=18 July 2018 |website=Scottish Football Historical Archive |page=239}}{{Cite web |title=Gillies John Clyde 1938 |url=https://www.vintagefootballers.com/product/gillies-john-image-2-clyde-1938/ |access-date=5 July 2019 |website=Vintage Footballers |language=en-GB}}