Harry Hood

Club

Born in Glasgow and raised in the city's Garthamlock neighbourhood, Hood's older brother Jackie was also a footballer who won the Liverpool Senior Cup while a reserve player at Everton but had returned to Scotland and local Junior club St Roch's by the time his younger sibling was starting his career. Harry Hood initially attended school at St Aloysius' College where rugby union was the chosen sport. Seeking a schoolboy appearance for Scotland, he moved to Holyrood Secondary School but was overlooked for the national schoolboy squad as he had already registered as a senior player at St Roch's. In summer 1962, he signed for Clyde, making his Scottish Division One debut in November of that year, aged 18. Clyde were relegated to the second tier, but in the lower division Hood flourished, scoring 37 times from 45 appearances in all competitions during the 1963–64 season as the club gained promotion. This good form continued into the next campaign and, after hesitating over a move to Celtic, the team he had supported in childhood, he was transferred to English club Sunderland for a fee of £30,000 in November 1964. In an early outing for the Roker Park club, Hood scored the only goal of the match against Manchester United. Hood missed the entire 1965–66 season because he pulled a double hernia in pre-season, and after his recovery, he was in a group of players frozen out by manager Ian McColl. Overall his spell in England was not particularly successful and in…

Club

Celtic

Scottish League (6): 1968–69, 1969–70, 1970–71, 1971–72, 1972–73, 1973–74 Scottish Cup (3): 1970–71, 1973–74, 1974–75 Scottish League Cup (2): 1969–70, 1974–75 Drybrough Cup: 1974

Individual

Scottish Division One top goalscorer: 1970–71