Thomas Logan (17 August 1888 – 21 June 1962) was a Scottish footballer, who played for Falkirk and Chelsea.[3]
Career
Born in Barrhead,[4] Logan began his senior career with local club Arthurlie of Scotland's second tier in 1908, moving to Falkirk, at that time one of the top teams in the country, in 1910, following a trial.[5][6] During the initial months of his first season at Brockville Park (in which the club eventually finished in third place), his elder brother Alec[4] was a teammate prior to a transfer to England; another older sibling James[4] was also a professional footballer who played in England, becoming an opponent after he moved back home in 1912 to play with Rangers.[7]
Logan was a member of the Chelsea side that reached the 1915 FA Cup Final. He was one of the few Chelsea players to get a positive mention in the Manchester Guardian report on the final for a few "dashing excursions" into the Sheffield half, he failed to score.[13] By then, he was judged to be "an ideal centre half who showed judgement in his play",[11] although in his early years he had been considered a forward and had a good scoring ratio for Falkirk. He was playing further back when capped by Scotland.
He was contracted to Chelsea until July 1922 (although his last appearance for the club was in November 1920)[2] and made a total of 116 appearances scoring 8 goals in total.[15] In his mid-30s, he returned to Arthurlie,[6] then playing in the Western League – a wartime competition which continued for several years due to the slow reorganisation of lower league football in Scotland.[16]
↑Tommy Logan is credited in several sources[18][19][20] as having been selected for the Scottish League XI in 1907, but this is extremely unlikely as he was a teenager with no top level experience at the time of the fixture in question; by contrast, his older brother Alec Logan was an established forward at Falkirk and it can be assumed that Alec was the player involved, with records of 'Logan, Falkirk' being linked to Tommy after he became a prominent member of the same team within a few years.
↑Glanvill, Rick (2006). Chelsea FC: The Official Biography - The Definitive Story of the First 100 Years. Headline Book Publishing Ltd. p.405. ISBN0-7553-1466-2.