death_date nationalcaps manageryears birth_date years caps goals nationalyears image name fullname birth_place nationalteam totalcaps totalgoals nationalgoals youthclubs clubs position managerclubs article_title
5 november 2006 4 2 1965-1966 1967 1970-1971 29 december 1931 1955 -- 1965 1965 -- 1966 73 267 30 13 2 0 1961 1961 bobbyshearer.jpg bobby shearer robert shearer hamilton , scotland scotland scottish league xi 370 15 0 0 burnbank athletic burnbank athletic rangers queen of the south right-back queen of the south third lanark hamilton academical bobby shearer

bobby shearer

bobby shearer -lrb- 29 december 1931 -- 5 november 2006 -rrb- was a scottish professional football player and manager .
he represented scotland in four full international games .
shearer , a right-back , played 407 times in all competitions for rangers between 1955 and 1965 , including a run of 165 consecutive games .
he previously played for hamilton academical , his hometown club , and also for highland league club inverness thistle while on national service in the army in the early 1950s , at fort george barracks just outside inverness .
his combative playing style led to him being nicknamed captain cutlass .
he made his full scotland debut on 15 april 1961 , in the infamous 9-3 defeat against england at wembley .
it was frequently joked afterwards that as an orange football had been used , shearer and rangers teammate eric caldow had refused to kick it , while celtic players frank haffey and billy mcneill had refused to touch it .
despite this inauspicious start , shearer won further caps against the republic of ireland -lrb- twice -rrb- and czechoslovakia in world cup qualifiers the following month , his final game being a 4-0 defeat in bratislava .
shearer captained rangers to their second domestic treble in 1963-64 .
in all , he won five league championships , three scottish cups and four scottish league cups during his time at ibrox .
after leaving ibrox , shearer moved to dumfries club queen of the south as player-coach in the era of players such as allan ball , iain mcchesney and billy collings .
in january 1967 , shearer was appointed manager of ill-fated third lanark , who folded later that year .
shearer moved back to his hometown club hamilton academical and served as their manager , amongst other tasks .
he died following a short illness on 5 november 2006 , aged 74 .
