About John Kay
Born 1860. John Kay was a British association football player.
John Leck Kay (6 September 1857 – 1 March 1933) was a Scottish footballer of the 1870s and 1880s who played mainly as a left winger.
Kay's first senior club was Third Lanark where he won a Scottish Cup runners-up medal in 1878. He moved to Queen's Park in 1879 where he won three successive Scottish Cup winners' medals in 1880, 1881 and 1882, plus two Glasgow Merchants Charity Cups. He returned to Third Lanark in 1883 and later had a short spell at Pollokshields Athletic before emigrating to the United States in 1887.
He was capped 6 times by the Scotland national team between 1880 and 1884, scoring 5 goals.
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Who was John Kay?
Scottish footballer
When was John Kay born?
John Kay was born in 1860 in Crossmyloof.
What was John Kay's occupation?
John Kay was an association football player.
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John Kay was British.
Sources & further reading
· DBpedia: John Kay (Scottish footballer)
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