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JIM MCCOLGAN

Born: 20 June 1916

Came from: St Anthony's Went to: Queens Park Rangers

First game: 11 February 1939 Last game: 11 February 1939

Appearances: 1 (1/0) Goals: 0

McColgan was born to a large family in Ireland (the Irish Free State as it then was) in Eskaheen in County Donegal, in 1916.

He had moved across the Irish Sea in his youth and was noticed, almost certainly by Bob Jack on one of his many forays back to Scotland, playing Scottish junior football with Govan-based St Anthony's in the Glasgow League. In the 1935-36 season they had famously played a staggering 88 competitive fixtures in a single season - still a British record for any professional or semi-professional club.

Moving to Home Park in 1937, under Jack, he played regularly for the reserves at half-back but appeared as a centre-forward when called upon to make his only League start for the club, a 1-0 defeat at Burnley in February 1939 under Jack Tresadern, after Jack's incredible 28-year tenure in his second spell at Home Park had ended in April 1938.

After that single first team game in green, he moved later in 1939 to Third Division (South) side Queens Park Rangers. He made two appearances for Rangers, back at half-back, the first in a Football League Jubilee fixture - games organised to raise money for players' hardship and injury funds; the League arranged 44 local derbies and the 1939 series reversed the original "Jubilee Saturday" fixtures played the previous season. He played in a 3-2 home win over Northampton Town in August 1939, which ran in parallel to the three matches of the conventional 1939-40 season, before abandonment and being replaced by the war-time leagues. His second and final appearance was in one of those leagues, League South B, in another 3-2 home win, this time against Brighton & Hove Albion in December 1939.

Despite Rangers remaining active in the war-time throughout the conflict, he made no further appearances and remained on their books until he was released in 1944.

Records indicate that he did not continue his career at the end of hostilities and he appears to have returned to Scotland in later life.

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APPEARANCE DETAILS [reselect competitions]

The details below reflect appearances in all first-team competitions.

I'm very grateful to many who have helped write GoS-DB's player pen-pictures, and to Dave Rowntree, the PAFC Media Team and Colin Parsons for their help with photos. Thanks also to staff at the National Football Museum, the Scottish Football Museum and ScotlandsPeople for their valuable assistance.

The following publications have been particularly valuable in the research of pen-pictures: Plymouth Argyle, A Complete Record 1903-1989 (Brian Knight, ISBN 0-907969-40-2); Plymouth Argyle, 101 Golden Greats (Andy Riddle, ISBN 1-874287-47-3); Football League Players' Records 1888-1939 (Michael Joyce, ISBN 1-899468-67-6); Football League Players' Records 1946-1988 (Barry Hugman, ISBN 1-85443-020-3) and Plymouth Argyle Football Club Handbooks.

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