Misplaced Pages

Jim Souness

Article snapshot taken from Wikipedia with creative commons attribution-sharealike license. Give it a read and then ask your questions in the chat. We can research this topic together.
Scottish cricketer and footballer
This article relies largely or entirely on a single source. Relevant discussion may be found on the talk page. Please help improve this article by introducing citations to additional sources.
Find sources: "Jim Souness" – news · newspapers · books · scholar · JSTOR (December 2021)

James McGill Souness (9 November 1928 – 2 September 1990) was a Scottish footballer and cricketer. Souness played for both of the Edinburgh derby rivals, Hibs and Hearts. An outside right, Souness was unable to break into the Hibs team ahead of Scotland international Gordon Smithalthough was involved in them winning the League in the 1950/51 season . He moved to Hearts in 1953 and helped the club win the 1954–55 Scottish League Cup. Souness retired from playing football soon afterwards, when he became a qualified actuary.

Souness played in three first class matches for the Scotland cricket team.

After retiring from competitive sport, Souness climbed over 200 of the Scottish Munros. In September 1990, he was killed in a climbing accident on the Jungfrau mountain in Switzerland, the day after he retired. His sons witnessed the accident.

See also

References

  1. ^ Elder, Andrew (6 May 1980). "Souness still has a few peaks to climb". The Herald. Herald & Times Group. Retrieved 17 December 2013.

External links

Categories: