James Hill Galt (11 August 1885 – 17 November 1935) was a Scottish professional footballer who played as a left half for Rangers and Everton.^[4]

Galt played with Rangers for eight years between 1906 and 1914.^[5] He made 240 appearances and scored six goals for the club.^[5] During his time at Ibrox he won three Scottish league championships, two Glasgow Cups and three Glasgow Merchants Charity Cups, as well as the Edinburgh Exhibition Cup in 1908.^[6]

Galt swapped Glasgow for Merseyside in 1914 and joined Everton. He made 36 appearances for the Toffees and scored four goals.^[7] Despite captaining them to the First Division title,^[8] he left after only one season when World War I took hold and official football was suspended in England, returning to Scotland to play for Partick Thistle and Third Lanark. He guested for Fulham during the war.^[9]

Galt won his two Scotland caps in May 1908.^[10] He scored on his second appearance, against Ireland on 14 May.^[10] Galt also played and scored in one unofficial wartime international, against England on 13 May 1916.^[11]

During the First World War he served with Army Service Corps and latterly the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders as a Second Lieutenant.^[12] He was wounded in action, suffering severe shell-shock, which meant that he did not resume his football career to any great extent after the war ended.^[4]

Galt was also an accomplished golfer: he battled for the 'Scottish Professional Footballers Golf Championship' with Jimmy Lawson of Dundee who later switched sports to turn professional in the United States.^[13]

After retiring from football, Galt ran a series of billiard halls with ex-Rangers teammate Jimmy Gordon.^[14]

Sources

• Smith, Paul (2013). Scotland Who's Who. Pitch Publishing. ISBN 9781909178847.

• James Galt at the Scottish Football Association