Career
Walker joined from Dalry Primrose in 1896, making his debut in a "trial" match vs Sunderland. He played in a few games that clinched 2nd League Championship in 1897. Walker was the first player to score over 100 league goals, and he scored " 1000th league goal.
He scored two hat-tricks against " Edinburgh rivals, the first at the age of 19 years and 9 months in a 5–1 victory at Easter Road on 28 October 1898.
With the score poised at 3–3 The Scotsman reported it thus: "lieutenant, however, proved staunch, and the Edinburgh team soon showed that they were not going to relinquish the grasp of the cup which their play entitled them to, and Walker once more proved himself the grandest forward on the field Taking the ball some thirty yards right through the opposition, he shot straight and true.
M"Arthur saved, but sent the "leather" to Bell, who tipped it over to Houston. During " first overseas tour to Norway in May 1912 King Haakon of Norway attended one of the games to specifically see Walker play.
Walker became a Director in 1920.
He died at the early age of 51 in August 1930. Huge crowds lined the funeral route and thousands stood round his graveside. His obituary in The Scotsman stated the following: "The never had a more brilliant forward than Walker.
He was amazingly clever in manipulating the ball, and, it was on skill alone that he relied, for he was never favoured with physique.
With the ball at his feet he could turn on his course elusively, and in such little space, that he could often put a whole defence out of position with his deft movement."
The Football Encyclopaedia from 1934, edited by Frank Johnston, referred to him simply as "Bobby Walker, the greatest natural football player who ever played."
He was the most capped Scottish football player for Heart of Midlothian with 29 caps until the record was broken in 2006 by Steven Pressley. He held the Scotland national team caps record at various points from 1905 to 1931.
If caps are "weighted" to measure the number of games that were possible to play in a season, he is third in the all time Scottish caps list. His Scotland career of 13 Years, 1 Month and 3 days places him no 11 in the all-time list.
He shares the record of 11 Scottish caps versus England, along with Alan Morton of Queens Park and Rangers.
The record would have been 12 as he played in the Ibrox disaster match of 5 April 1902 which has subsequently been declared unofficial. International goals
Scores and results list Scotland"s goal tally first.
