Since I had the info and done the research to find out for my previous post on the tallest Pre-WWII Falkirk FC players, it stands to reason that it would be as simple to look for the shortest players too. And so it was, like last week, this list really does not signify much, people were shorter back then on average, and I only have the heights of roughly a quarter of the players from the time.
Again I have included those players whose heights were within an inch of the above players, the simple fact is I do not trust anything measured in that weird imperial stuff, nor do I trust those doing the measuring to be too rigorous in their methods. For Example, the Falkirk Herald reported that the 20 yo Alex Carruthers was 5' 8" in 1935, but the same paper in 1939 recorded that he was now 5' 9"!
Height Name pos Career
5' 5" George McNicol IR 1898/99
5' 5" James Conlin OL 1899/00-1900/01
5' 5½" Patsy Gallacher IR 1926/27-1931/32
5' 6" Robert Orrock LH 1908/09-1916/17
5' 6" Daniel Paterson OL 1924/25-1928/29
5' 6" William Cox OR 1927/28-1928/29
5' 6" Thomas Robertson OR 1936/67
5' 6½" Alex Heeps IR 1925/26-1928/29
5' 6½" James McNeill CF 1926/27-1927/28
Again I have included those players whose heights were within an inch of the above players, the simple fact is I do not trust anything measured in that weird imperial stuff, nor do I trust those doing the measuring to be too rigorous in their methods. For Example, the Falkirk Herald reported that the 20 yo Alex Carruthers was 5' 8" in 1935, but the same paper in 1939 recorded that he was now 5' 9"!
5' 7" James Croal IR 1910/11-1918/19
5' 7" John McNaught OR 1911/12-1915/16
5' 7" Robert McDougall OL 1915/16-1920/21
5' 7" William Agnew IR 1919/20-1920/21
5' 7" John Hunter IR 1920/21-1927/28
5' 7" Robert Kennedy CF 1926/27-1927/28
5' 7" Thomas Gilroy LB 1927/28-1929/30
5' 7" Richard Duffy IL 1936/37-1945/46
5' 7" Ian McLachlan IR 1938/39
5' 7½" Michael Gibbons IR 1910/11-1918/19
5' 7½" John Rattray CF 1910/11-1912/13
5' 7½" William Millar RH 1913/14
5' 7½" Alex Thomson CF 1913/14-1915/16
5' 7½" Thomas Scott RB 1917/18-1928/29
5' 7½" Thomas Batchelor RH 1932/33-1936/37
5' 7½" Hugh Hamill CH 1929/30-1936/37
5' 7½" Robert Nisbet RB 1932/33-1938/39
5' 7½" Peter Cabrelli IL 1934/35-1935/36
5' 7½" David Cowan IL 1934/35-1936/37
5' 7½" George Anderson OR 1936/37-1942/43