Career
Born in Airdrie, Gillick was signed in 1933, aged 18, for Rangers by manager Bill Struth, after playing for prominent Glasgow junior club Petershill F.C. During World World War II, Gillick "guested" for home-town Airdrieonians and Rangers. At the end of the war in 1945, Struth brought him back to Ibrox.
At Ibrox, he played 140 times, scoring 62 goals. Gillick left Rangers for Partick Thistle in August 1951.
He played one season with the Jags before retiring to oversee his business interest, a Lanarkshire scrap metal firm.
He died on 12 December 1971, aged 56, from undisclosed causes, on the same day as Alan Morton, also a retired Rangers player.