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Bobby Kinloch

Full name:Robert Kinloch
Position:Wing half
Date of Birth:1935
Place of Birth:Glasgow, Scotland
Date of Death:27 August 2014
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Playing career:

SeasonTeamGpdGls
Forres Mechanics F.C.
Edinburgh Waverley
1959-1960Hibernian00
1960-1961Hibernian1110
1961-1962Hibernian62
1962-1963Greenock Morton132
1963-1964Berwick Rangers161
1964Toronto City8
1965Toronto City
1965Toronto Hungaria
1966Hamilton Primos
1967
1967-1968Raith Rovers120
1967-1968Dunfermline Athletic30
1968-1969Forres Mechanichs

Bio:

First made his mark in football in the Highland League with Forres Mechanichs.

Joined Scottish League club Hibernian in November 1959.

Joined Greenock Morton in October 1962.

Joined Berwick Rangers in January 1964.

Joined Eastern Canada Professional Soccer League club Toronto City before the start of the 1964 season.

Arrived in Canada on 8 May 1964.

Selected to the ECPSL All-Star Second Team after the 1964 season.

Started the 1965 season with Eastern Canada Professional Soccer League club Toronto City. Broke his leg in the second game of the season.

Then played for Toronto Hungaria in the National Soccer League in the 1965 season.

Returned to the Eastern Canada Professional Soccer and played for Hamilton Primos in the 1966 season.

Worked as a Toronto police constable and played for the Metropolitan Toronto police team.

Returned to Scotland and joined Raith Rovers in August 1967.

Joined Dunfermline Athletic in March 1968 from Raith Rovers.

Released by Dunfermline Athletic on a free transfer in April 1968.

Then had a short spell with Forres Mechanics, as is mother ran a hotel there.

Later worked in Singapore.

Bobby passed away at the age of 79 on 27 August 2014.

Sources:

Berwick Rangers stats from:

http://www.berwickrangersfc.co.uk/1960s/1963-64.html

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