5'6" 11 st.
b. Aberdeen 11 December 1907
d. Bucksburn, Aberdeen 1987
 

Debut 20 September 1937 (29y 283d) Final Game 11 March 1939 (31y 90d)
First Goal 15 January 1938
CAREER: Sunnybank School;Mugiemoss’27;Aberdeen Nov'29[33-3];St Johnstone Oct '32[143-15];Blackburn Rovers Sep'37-Oct’45 (£1,200);Inverness Clachnacuddin; Buckie Thistle '45;Peterhead Apr'46-'48.
 

FL           19 apps  1 gl
FAC           2 apps
Total      21 apps  1 gl
War time
NWRL     4 apps
NL           22 apps
FLWC       2 apps
LC             1 app
 

The son of an Aberdeen carpenter, Dickie  served an apprenticeship as a plumber. Despite being a fitness fanatic and all round enthusiast  he found the move to English football taxing. Although normally an inside forward he was better suited to wing half where his chronic inability in front of goal was better disguised. The move coincided with the worst run of injuries he had ever experienced. For a time during the war in which he was an army physical training instructor, he played regularly for the club but he then bought an off licence in the Benthead area of Aberdeen and turned out for Buckie Thistle. He played so well in the first leg of the Aberdeenshire cup that their opponents, Peterhead, signed him. After playing on for two seasons he took up a coaching position with Aberdeen, a position that suited him well since he was an active youth worker who ran a section of the Church Boy's Brigade.  After the war he had a general merchant's business in Buckburn until he disposed of it in 1952.