Archibald Kyle (13 July 1883 – 21 July 1957) was a Scottish

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player who played for

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and

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Career

Kyle joined

from

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in 1904. He was one of a number of

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players at the club during the early 1900s. Kyle made 110

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and

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were dominant, the nearest being a runners-up medal from the

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. He left Rangers 1908 to move to England with

and later

Bradford Park Avenue Bradford (Park Avenue) Association Football Club is an association football club based in Bradford, West Yorkshire, England. The team compete in , at the sixth tier of the English football league system. The name derived from their former hom ...

before a brief stint in Ireland at Linfield. Kyle returned to Scotland and played with

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, St Mirren and

.Kyle, Archie
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Personal life

Kyle married Letitia Hargreaves in 1905 and raised his family in

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. His grandson from daughter Mary "Catherine" Miller née Kyle is singer-songwriter

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. In 1924, he and

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, a former Celtic player, were found guilty of attempting to bribe Bo'ness player Peter Brown in a

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in Glasgow's Dundas Street: both men were sentenced to 60 days' hard labour.

References

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Details of Rangers career
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