Kane: Robert (Bob/Bertie)

1935-1947 (Player Details)

Centre Half

Born: Cambuslang, Lanarkshire: 17-07-1911

Debut: v Huddersfield Town (a): 08-02-1936

5’11 1/2” 11st 10lb (1946)

Kane began with Rutherglen Rosebank and was provisionally signed by Celtic in 1934-35, although he remained with Scottish Central League side, St Rochs, from whom he joined Leeds in August 1935. Groomed as a successor to Jock McDougall, he found himself instead having to contest the centre-half position with Tom Holley. “Bertie” Kane was one of the few players to turn out for Leeds on either side of the war. He played war-time football with Kings Park, the predecessors of Stirling Albion, as well as Hibernian and served with the Royal Artillery in Gibraltar and at Finnarts Bay near Stranraar. After the war he added one more League outing to his total before retiring in May 1947. He returned to Cambuslang to work in the Hoover factory and then at a steelworks. He died in Cambuslang in January 1985, aged seventy-three.