Robert Hamilton (Scottish footballer)

Club Hamilton started his football career with the local side Elgin City in the Highland League. He relocated to Glasgow in 1896 to attend the city's University and joined Queen's Park. A year later, he joined the Rangers until 1907, earning a reputation as a potent goal-scorer who was remarkably accurate from long range. He earned further League winners' medals in 1899–1900, 1900–01 and 1901–02 and was part of Rangers' Scottish Cup-winning sides in 1898 and 1903. Hamilton moved south of the border to join Fulham in May 1906, helping them to win the 1906–07 Southern League title, He signed for Dundee at the end of the 1909–10 season, too late to be involved in the side which defeated Clyde to win the Scottish Cup, Dundee's first, that year. he returned to first club Elgin City in 1913 where he finally retired. International Hamilton won a total of eleven caps for Scotland between 1899 and 1911, scoring fifteen goals, four of which came in Scotland's 11–0 win over Ireland in 1901, their biggest ever margin of victory. He was also selected seven times for the Scottish League representative side, scoring nine goals. ==Post football==

After retiring from football, Hamilton went into education, and after graduating from the University of Glasgow, he became a school teacher, then eventually a master. He maintained an involvement in education throughout his life and eventually served on the Moray and Nairn Education Board in the mid-1930s. He was also involved in local politics, serving on the Elgin Town council between 1914 and 1937. For the last six years of this period, he was the Provost of Elgin. Hamilton died in May 1948, aged 71. In the late 1950s/early 1960s a new road in a private housing estate overlooking the River Lossie at the north side of Elgin was named after him as Hamilton Drive, which remains today. ==Career statistics==

Club International :''Scores and results list Scotland's goal tally first, the score column indicates the score after each Hamilton goal.'' ==See also==