Club Grierson started out at
Queen's Park before manager
Bill Struth brought him to
Rangers in 1952. He made his competitive debut in a 5–0 defeat against
Heart of Midlothian on 9 August. He scored his first and second goals for the club a week later in a
League Cup match against
Aberdeen. He won the
Scottish league championship and
Scottish Cup in his first season,
1952–53, and was the club's top scorer with 31 goals in the three major competitions, including four in one match against
Airdrieonians. He also won a
Glasgow Cup in 1953. He is noted as scoring the first ever live goal on British television. (causing him to miss out on the
1955–56 title-winning season entirely), he left Rangers in late 1956 and joined
Falkirk in a swap deal involving
Bobby Morrison, and soon won the Scottish Cup in
1957. As an amateur, he was selected for trials for the
Great Britain side that was to take part in the
Helsinki Olympic Games of 1952. Manager
Walter Winterbottom was duly impressed and Grierson made the squad - one of three Scots selected (he did not play in the only match played by the team, but had scored in two warm-up friendlies). He joined Rangers immediately after the Games, bringing his amateur period to an end. == References ==