Robert Stevenson (Scottish footballer)

{{short description|Scottish footballer}}

{{other people|Robert Stevenson}}

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| name= Robert Stevenson

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| position= Inside left

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| clubs1= Petershill[https://www.londonhearts.com/scores/images/1913/1913041207.htm Mainly about Players.] The Scottish Referee, 14 April 1913. Scan via London Hearts Supporters Club

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| years2= 1913–1921

| clubs2= Morton

| caps2= 222 | goals2= 54

| years3= 1921–1924

| clubs3= St Mirren

| caps3= 69 | goals3= 13

| years4 = 1924

| clubs4= Clydebank

| caps4= 7 | goals4= 0

| years5= 1924–1925

| clubs5= Arthurlie

| caps5= 5 | goals5= 0

| years6= –

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| totalcaps= 303 | totalgoals = 67

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Robert Stevenson was a Scottish footballer who played as a inside left for Morton, St Mirren, Clydebank and Arthurlie.{{cite journal|title=A Record of pre-war Scottish League Players|author=John Litster|publisher=Scottish Football Historian magazine|date=October 2012}}[https://www.vintagefootballers.com/product/stevenson-robert-image-1-st-mirren-1922/ Stevenson Robert Image 1 St Mirren 1922], Vintage Footballers He left Morton the year before the Greenock club won the Scottish Cup in 1922, but was a regular member of their team in the period around World War I when they finished in the top four of the Scottish Football League table for six seasons running (Stevenson missed one of these campaigns entirely, likely as a result of wartime commitments). He did take part in both of the Navy and Army War Fund Shield finals, the first of which in 1915 Morton won by defeating Rangers[https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=Xc9AAAAAIBAJ&sjid=baYMAAAAIBAJ&pg=4210%2C6935140 Football: War Shield Final], Glasgow Herald, 29 April 1915 and the second in 1918 which they lost to Celtic.[https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=SMRAAAAAIBAJ&sjid=FKYMAAAAIBAJ&pg=2904%2C2489859 Association football {{!}} War Fund Shield–Final Tie], Glasgow Herald, 6 May 1918 After he moved to Renfrewshire derby rivals St Mirren, Stevenson quickly struck up a fruitful partnership with fellow new signing Dunky Walker, who finished as the top scorer across European club football in their first season together.[http://stmirren.info/id269.html 1921-22], StMirren.info