George Thomson McCallum (24 August 1935 – 18 March 2022)Digging up spuds before Final didn't do the trick for Mac, The Sunday Post, 26 October 2014, via PressReader was a Scottish footballer who played for Third Lanark as a centre half.
In his short career, which only began at senior level after he undertook his National Service, he showed sufficient promise to be selected for a trial match between a Scottish Football League XI team and a Scottish Football Association team in March 1959,The selectors still have problems , The Bulletin, 17 March 1959 and in October of that year played in the 1959 Scottish League Cup Final, a 2–1 defeat for Thirds against Heart of Midlothian, in which he acknowledged culpability for the winning goal.Third's Defence Strive Nobly But In Vain, The Glasgow Herald, 26 October 1959 Four days later, in a Scottish Football League fixture between the same teams rearranged to accommodate the cup final,Wed 28 Oct 1959 19:30 | Hearts 6 Third Lanark 2, London Hearts Supporters Club he suffered a knee injury which halted his progress and ultimately forced him to quit the game by 1962.Third Lanark: 1946/47 - 1966/67, Post War English & Scottish Football League A - Z Player's Transfer Database
He later worked manufacturing thermal insulation, and attended numerous events remembering Third Lanark (the club, which had finished 3rd in the 1960–61 Scottish Division One table, went defunct in 1967).Third Lanark meeting marks 45th Anniversary, SPFL, 16 March 2012George McCallum, George Cavanagh, Flickr, 30 June 2007
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