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Tommy Gallacher (1922 – 2001) was a Scottish footballer in the late 1940s and 1950s. == Football career == Tommy was only seven years old when his mother died. He was thus brought up by his father, by this stage playing for Falkirk at the end of his career. At one point the thought of the priesthood was a possibility for Tommy. However, that was not to be and he joined amateur side Queen's Park as a young man and played for them throughout World War II. He made five appearances in league matches for Queen's Park when the league resumed in the 1946/47 season. Tommy moved to Dundee in 1947 to become a professional player. That coincided with one of the greatest eras in the club’s history and the backbone of the legendary Dundee team that included names such as Bill Brown, Doug Cowie, Alfie Boyd, Bobby Flavell and Billy Steel. Together with Cowie and Boyd in Dundee's half-back line, Gallacher and Dundee missed out on the League Championship on the last day of the 1948/49 season to Rangers. A few years later though, the same Dundee team won the Scottish League Cup in 1951 and in 1952. Dundee became the first side to retain the League Cup. They could have won a cup double in 1951/52, but lost the 1952 Scottish Cup Final to Motherwell 4-0 at Hampden.〔http://stadundeefc.mtcserver11.com/the-club/history/hall-of-fame/inductees 〕 Tommy was unlucky not to have been capped for Scotland. One appearance for the Scottish League against the English League at Newcastle in 1949 was his only international honour. Gallacher was unfortunate that at the time there were an abundance of great Scottish right-halves - the likes of Bobby Evans of Celtic, Ian McColl of Rangers, Tommy Docherty of Preston North End and Jimmy Scoular of Newcastle United. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Tommy Gallacher」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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