John Ogilvie R.I.P.

[Iggy Pope]

Club official Twitter account reporting on the death of John Ogilvie, a full back with Hibs during our finest era.
He was 92.

Apologies if already posted

[Carheenlea]

Always sad to learn of the passing of former Hibs players.

Had a dig around looking for more information about John Ogilvie and found this on an old thread on here


John Ogilvie

One of the most enthusiastic players at Easter Road and that says something! Came to the club in 1947 from Thorniewood United and made his League debut against Queen of the South the following season. Finished up at left-back after Davie Shaw was injured. Came into prominence in the latter part of last season (‘49/50). A Motherwell lad, John is a joiner, and is popular with the other players for his talent in the singing line. His cousin is the famous pre-war Motherwell left-half – another Johnny Ogilvie.
From Hibs Handbook for season 1950/51

And the following from Hibernian The Players and Managers 1946 – 2009
By Jim Jeffrey

OGILVIE, John
Left-back

Born : Motherwell, 28 October 1928.
Career: Thorniewood United, Hibernian 1946, Leicester City 1955, Mansfield Town 1960.
In the 1951 Scottish Cup semi-final at Tynecastle against Motherwell John suffered a transverse fraction of his leg. There was some irony that he himself was a native of Motherwell and indeed spent much of his recuperation using Motherwell’s swimming baths. He had broken into the side in the late 1940s and with his swift tackling and no-nonsense approach was a popular figure. Having said that the facts remain that he only played 35 league games for Hibs over a period of eight seasons. Hibernian granted him a free transfer in April 1955. This was his cue to try his luck elsewhere and in September 1955 he joined Leicester City and made almost 100 appearances for the Foxes.

Also a nice tribute on Leicester City’s website

https://www.lcfc.com/news/1664274/john-ogilvie-19282020

RIP John

[brog]

A fine tribute from Leicester. My Dad always spoke about the 1951 season. We scored 9 against Well in winning the 2 league games but we lost both the LC final & the SC semi to them. I believe in the semi we played most of the game with 10 men, ended it with 9 & lost 3 2!!
21/5/16 really did right an awful lot of wrongs!

[jacomo]

Yes, already a post on this from RSS Bot, in his usual hit and run style...

[BILLYHIBS]

Just watched the leg breaking tackle versus Motherwell on the Famous Five video on YouTube looked a bad one

Another brave Hibby gone but not forgotten

Deepest sincerest condolences to family and friends

RIP


His memory goes marching on

[Iggy Pope]

Yes, already a post on this from RSS Bot, in his usual hit and run style...

Came about three hours after this thread mind you.

[superfurryhibby]

R.I.P to a league winning Hibee. A short Hibs career but he served us very well.

[One Day]

R. I. P.