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John Leck Kay was a Scottish footballer of the 1870s and 1880s who played mainly as a left winger.

John Kay

Kay in Scotland kit, 1882
Personal information
Full name	John Leck Kay[1]
Place of birth	Crossmyloof, Scotland
Position(s)	Outside forward
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
18??–1879	Third Lanark
1879–1883	Queen's Park
1883–18??	Third Lanark
	Pollokshields Athletic
National team
1880–1884	Scotland	6	(5)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Kay's first senior club was Third Lanark where he won a Scottish Cup runners-up medal in 1878. He moved to Queen's Park in 1879 where he won three successive Scottish Cup winners' medals in 1880, 1881 and 1882, plus two Glasgow Merchants Charity Cups.[2] He returned to Third Lanark in 1883 and later had a short spell at Pollokshields Athletic before emigrating to the United States in 1887.

He was capped 6 times by the Scotland national team between 1880 and 1884, scoring 5 goals.

References

External links

• John Kay at the Scottish Football Association

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