Tommy Hyslop

Not to be confused with Tom Hislop.

Bryce Thomas Scouller,^[1] known by his sporting name Thomas Hyslop (20 August 1871^[2] – 21 April 1936) was a Scottish footballer who played in the Football League for Stoke City and Sunderland^[3] He also played for Sunderland and Rangers.

Tommy Hyslop

Personal information
Full name	Bryce Thomas Scouller[1]
Date of birth	(1871-08-20)20 August 1871[1]
Place of birth	Auchinleck, Scotland[1]
Date of death	21 April 1936(1936-04-21) (aged 64)[1]
Place of death	Paisley, Scotland[1]
Position(s)	Forward
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
1889	Elderslie
1890–1892	2nd Scots Guards
1892	Millwall Athletic
1893–1894	Sunderland	19	(10)
1894–1896	Stoke	33	(24)
1896–1898	Rangers	30	(23)
1898–1899	Stoke	12	(0)
1899–1900	Rangers	5	(3)
1900–1902	Partick Thistle	14	(6)
1902–1903	Dundee Wanderers
1903–1904	Johnstone
1904–1906	Abercorn	17	(2)
1906–1907	Philadelphia Thistle
1907	Tacony Philadelphia
Total		120	(68)
International career
1896–1897	Scotland	2	(1)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

He represented the Scotland national team, playing twice against England in 1896 and in 1897, scoring on his debut. He was one of a group of five men who were the first to be selected while playing for an English club,^[4] and also the first Stoke player to be capped by Scotland.^[5]

Career

Hyslop was born as Bryce Scouller in Ayrshire but grew up in Elderslie, Renfrewshire; he began his career with Elderslie and also played football whilst serving with the Royal Scots.^[3][1] He moved to England and joined Millwall Athletic (using the pseudonym Tommy Hyslop – his middle name and his mother's maiden name– to escape his military connections)^[1] before joining Football League side Sunderland in 1893.^[3] He spent one season at Sunderland and joined a struggling Stoke side in March 1894.^[3]

Hyslop, as he was now known in football circles, made an instant impact at Stoke scoring seven goals in the final six matches of the 1894–95 season to move Stoke away from the foot of the table.^[3] In 1895–96 he finished top scorer with 21 goals to his name and at the end of the campaign he returned to Scotland with Rangers,^[3][1][6] where he won the Glasgow Merchants Charity Cup, Scottish Cup and Glasgow Cup in 1896–97^[7][8] and retained the latter two trophies the following season.^[9]

He made a short unsuccessful return to Stoke in 1898 before continuing his career in Scotland.^[3][1][10] He later moved to Canada, where he used his birth name but supplied a false age enabling him to enlist in the Canadian Expeditionary Force during World War I, and also played football in the United States before returning to Scotland. He died in Paisley in 1936.^[1]

Career statistics

Club

Source:^[11]

Club	Season	League			FA Cup		Other		Total
		Division	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals
Sunderland	1893–94	First Division	19	10	0	0	0	0	19	10
Stoke	1894–95	First Division	6	7	0	0	1	0	7	7
	1895–96	First Division	27	17	3	4	0	0	30	21
Rangers	1895–96[6]	Scottish Division One	0	0	0	0	1	0	1	0
	1896–97[6]	Scottish Division One	17	10	5	5	12	9	34	24
	1897–98[6]	Scottish Division One	13	13	2	0	6	4	21	17
Stoke	1898–99	First Division	12	0	0	0	0	0	12	0
Rangers	1898–99[6]	Scottish Division One	0	0	0	0	1	2	1	2
	1899–1900[6]	Scottish Division One	5	3	1	1	7	1	13	5
Career total			99	60	11	10	28	16	138	86

International

Source:^[12]

National team	Year	Apps	Goals
Scotland	1896	1	0
	1897	1	1
Total		2	1

International goals

Scores and results list Scotland's goal tally first.

#	Date	Venue	Opponent	Score	Result	Competition
1	3 April 1897	London, England	England	1–1	2–1	Friendly

References

1. "Bryce Scouller, aka Tom Hyslop: the double identity of Scotland's soldier internationalist". Scottish Sport History. 19 January 2016. Retrieved 2 December 2017.
2. often recorded as 22 September 1874
3. Matthews, Tony (1994). The Encyclopaedia of Stoke City. Lion Press. ISBN 0-9524151-0-0.
4. Anglo Scottish Recognition, Doigs Den
5. "Player Records". Stoke City. Retrieved 3 September 2009.
6. "Hyslop, Tommy". Fitbastats. Retrieved 7 October 2014.
7. "Scottish Soccer - League Division One - Rangers". media storehouse. Retrieved 2 December 2017.
8. "Rangers player Tommy Hyslop matches 1896–97". Fitbastats. Retrieved 2 December 2017.
9. "Rangers player Tommy Hyslop matches 1897–98". Fitbastats. Retrieved 2 December 2017.
10. John Litster (October 2012). "A Record of pre-war Scottish League Players". Scottish Football Historian magazine. {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
11. Tommy Hyslop at the English National Football Archive (subscription required)
12. "Hyslop,Tommy". National Football Teams. Benjamin Strack-Zimmermann. Retrieved 20 February 2018.

External links

• Tom Hyslop at the Scottish Football Association
• International stats at Londonhearts.com