'Duff" Hibs players

[bobby s]

Sunday Mail from 11th May 1947 has the following Hibs team for a 2-0 away at Third Lanark:

Kerr, Duff, Shaw, Howie, Aird, Kean, Combe, Leslie Johnstone, Stirling, Turnbull, Ormond.

Duff is confusing me - I've looked at Litsters disk, Emms Book, Hibs histories and there isn't a player that seems to fit the bill.

Anyone able to offer any suggestions? I'll double check the sunday post next time I'm in Glasgow.

[soccerhistory]

Having spent a considerable amount of time recently trawling papers for wartime line-ups, its worth pointing out that the Sunday Post (and occasionally the Sunday Mail, which didn't always carry line-ups) regularly seems to include previously unknown names in team line-ups. On investigation these usually prove to be another player, often of a similar sounding name. I put it down to a problem with inexperienced copy takers taking down names incorrectly from reporters telephoning in from the press box. Its not really a problem with regional weeklies, for obvious reasons. I would suggest you try to look at the football edition of one of the two Edinburgh evenings and also check the selected line-ups in the Friday papers.

[Alan Brown]

The mystery number 2 for Hibernian on 10th May 1947 was Jock Govan.

[bobby s]

Thanks soccer for the pointers, that is very helpful as I'm just about to move onto the war period.

Alan, thanks for clearing that up.

[Scottish]

Sunday Mail from 11th May 1947 has the following Hibs team for a 2-0 away at Third Lanark:

This match was actually at Hampden where Thirds played for all of 1946-47 and part of 1947-48 and took place after the Great Britain v Rest of Europe match played the same day.

[bobby s]

Thanks for that David - records duly amended