Jimmy MacEwan

Raith Rovers

In 1951 he moved up a division to join Raith Rovers He was top scorer at Raith for three seasons from 1956 to 1959. At different times McEwan played alongside Raith Hall of Famers Willie McNaught, Willie Penman, Willie Polland, Johnny Urquhart and Andy Young.

When at Raith, he was selected to play for a Scottish Football League XI against a Scotland XI at Ibrox on 16 March 1959 in a trial match prior to Scotland playing against England at Wembley in the 1958–59 British Home Championship. The league side won 6–5, with McEwan providing a cross for the first of three goals by John White. McEwan was never selected for the full international side, or the SFL team in an inter-league fixture. He left Raith at the end of that season.

On 27 September 1960 he played against ex-club Raith in a game to formally mark the switch on of the Starks Park floodlights. Raith won 2–1. Villa reached the 1961 Football League Cup Final. Villa won the inaugural version of the trophy beating Rotherham United 3–2 on aggregate. Seventh in the 1961–62 Football League was his highest finish in England.

He was punched in the face breaking four teeth in the November 1962 match against Sheffield Wednesday. While the match officials missed the incident itself, the referee was able to see the deep teeth marks in Bronco Layne's knuckles and sent-off the Wednesday player.

His favourite Villa game was his first start of the season on 19 March 1966, 5–5 draw away at Tottenham Hotspur, three days before his 37th birthday. His last game at Villa Park was on 6 April 1966 when he scored when captaining his team in a 1–1 draw against Manchester United. At Villa he scored 28 goals from 143 league games and 4 goals from 18 League Cup games. No goals from his 20 Villa FA Cup ties gave him totals of 181 games with 32 goals.