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Frank Beattie
Personal information
Full name	Frank Whitfield Beattie
Date of birth	17 October 1933(1933-10-17)
Place of birth	Stirling, Scotland
Date of death	19 November 2009 (aged 76)
Playing position	Midfielder
Senior career1
Years	Club	App (Gls)*
1954–1972	Kilmarnock	422 (34)
Teams managed
1972–1973 1973–1974	Albion Rovers Stirling Albion
1 Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. * Appearances (Goals)

Frank Beattie (17 October 1933 — 19 November 2009) was a Scottish association football player and manager. He spent his entire senior playing career with Kilmarnock, making 422 league appearances between 1954 and 1972.^[1] He was captain of Kilmarnock when they won the Scottish League Championship in 1965. After retiring as a player, Beattie managed Albion Rovers and Stirling Albion.

Contents 1 Early Life 2 Kilmarnock 2.1 The Tough First Years 2.2 Becoming A Regular 3 Death 4 Career Statistics 5 Honours 6 References 7 External links

[edit] Early Life

Frank Beattie was born in St Ninian's Stirling on 17th October 1933. Frank started playing football at an early age for his school St Modan's in Stirling. He later moved up to juvenile level with Dunipace and Cowie before then joining Bonnybridge Juniors. During his time at Bonnybridge Juniors scouts from several scottish clubs were looking at him and then in October 1953 just six weeks after signing for Bonnybrodge Frank signed for Kilmarnock

[edit] Kilmarnock

[edit] The Tough First Years

Frank Beattie was brought to Kilmarnock by the then manager Malky MacDonald. Frank spent the first season playing for the reserve team. Frank's favoured position was inside-left but, Frank first played for Kilmarnock in an unfamiliar role on the right of the attack during his debut against St Mirren in the League Cup tie at Love Street on the 4th September 1954 . This did not impact on his performance because he scored the goal to give Kilmarnock the lead at half time. The game ended in a 3-2 defeat for Kilmarnock and Frank was dropped for the first League game of the season the following week. Frank made his Kilmarnock league debut against Partick Thistle on the 9th October 1954. Like the game at Love Street Frank scored the only goal of the first half but again like Love Street, Kilmarnock lost the game but Frank did do enough to keep his place in the team for the next two games. Frank struggled to stay in the team during his first full season. That was the only season that Frank played in a Kilmarnock team that was threatened by relegation.

[edit] Becoming A Regular

At the start of Frank's second season with Kilmarnock he was still not a regular starter. He played in only one of the opening ten League Cup and league games. When Frank did get his chance in the team he took it, missing just one of the 33 subsequent matches that season. One of the games he played in was Kilmarnock's last victory against Celtic at Parkhead. Kilmarnock finished that season in 8th place, their highest position for twenty years. Frank still struggled to hold down a permanent place in the team but this was mainly down to the fact that he was a very versatile player. It was only after new manager Willie Waddell that Frank eventually nailed down a position in the team at right-half. After the switch of position Frank never appeared in the forward line again. In Frank's first full season at right-half Kilmarnock enjoyed their most successful season up to that point, finishing as runners up in the league to (for the first time in their history) and mounted a sustained title challenge but eventually finished four points behind eventual winners Hearts. Kilmarnock also finished runners up in the Scottish Cup to Rangers. For their efforts Kilmarnock were rewarded with a trip across the Atlantic to play in the International Soccer Tournament.

[edit] Death

Frank Beattie died on the 19th November 2009 at the age of 76.^[2] He died after suffering from Parkinson’s Disease for 10 years. During the SPL match played between Kilmarnock and Hearts on 28 November, a minute's silence was held in his memory.^[3]

[edit] Career Statistics

Club performance			League		Cup		League Cup		Continental		Total
Season	Club	League	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals
1954–55	Kilmarnock	Division One	15	3	0	0	1	1	0	0	16	4
1955–56			29	10	3	2	0	0	0	0	32	12
1956–57			21	7	2	1	4	0	0	0	27	8
1957–58			20	8	0	0	7	2	0	0	27	10
1958–59			27	0	3	0	0	0	0	0	30	10
1959–60			33	1	7	0	0	0	6	0	46	1
1960–61			28	0	1	0	10	1	6	0	45	1
1961–62			30	1	3	0	6	2	0	0	39	3
1962–63			34	1	2	0	10	1	6	0	52	2
1963–64			33	1	5	1	3	1	8	0	49	3
1964–65			31	1	4	0	6	0	13	0	54	1
1965–66			30	0	4	1	9	0	2	0	45	1
1966–67			29	1	2	0	6	0	8	0	45	1
1967–68			25	0	0	0	6	0	0	0	39	0
1968–69			28	0	4	0	2	0	6	0	40	0
1969–70			8	0	0	0	5	0	5	0	18	0
1970–71			0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1971–72			1	0	0	0	5	1	0	0	6	1
Career Total			422	34	40	5	80	9	60	0	602	48

[edit] Honours

• Scottish league championship winner (1): 1964–65

[edit] References

[edit] External links

• Beattie's obituary at Kilmarnock F.C.'s official website

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