Ian Hamilton

Football player

1940 –

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Who is Ian Hamilton?

Ian Hamilton is a former professional footballer who played for Bristol Rovers, Exeter City and Newport County in a thirteen-year career in The Football League.

Hamilton was born in Thornbury in 1940 and is the son of former Bristol Rovers player John Hamilton, who made 63 League appearances for The Pirates between 1929 and 1931. He began playing as a child for Thornbury Town, another of his father's former teams, and initially joined Bristol Rovers as an amateur in 1956, a move which mirrored his older brother David who had also joined Rovers from Thornbury but died in a bungalow fire in Olveston before making any League appearances.

After two years as an amateur Hamilton became a part-time professional in January 1958, aged 17, and made his first team debut in the 1958–59 season. He made eleven League appearances in his first three seasons as a paid player before finally becoming fully professional in December 1961 at the age of 21. He was Bristol Rovers' top goalscorer during the 1964–65 season with twenty-one goals, and in all he played 149 League games for the club and scored 60 goals but became plagued by an ongoing knee problem later in his time in Bristol. He had a brief loan spell at Exeter City during the 1967–68 season and spent a year with Newport County the following campaign, but his knee trouble forced him to retire from the professional game in 1969.

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Born
Sep 12, 1940
Bristol
Lived in
  • Bristol

Submitted
on July 23, 2013

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