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Robert Walker was a Scottish footballer who was one of the first black players of the sport.[2] He played in the late 1870s for Parkgrove (alongside fellow black player Andrew Watson) and between 1875-1877 for Third Lanark (with whom he was a runner-up in the 1876 Scottish Cup Final).[3][1] He took part in two trials for the Scotland national football team (1876 and 1877),[4][5] but this did not lead to a full cap.[6]

Robert Walker

Youth career
–1875	Queen's Park[1]
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
1875–1877	Third Lanark
1877–1878	Parkgrove
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

See also

• Andrew Watson (footballer, born 1856) - the first black person to play association football. Watson played for Maxwell, Parkgrove, and Queens Park before being capped for Scotland
• James Robertson (rugby union, born 1854) - the first black person to play rugby union. Robertson played for Royal HSFP and represented Edinburgh District in the 1870s.
• Willie Clarke (footballer) - the first black player to score in the English Football League, a Scottish footballer who played for Third Lanark in the late 1890s.

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