Career
Born in Aberdeen, Leggat started his career at his home town club as a right winger. He scored six goals for the Scottish League XI in five appearances. He wound down his career with short spells at Birmingham, Rotherham and Bromsgrove Rovers and was also briefly a coach at Aston Villa.
This record was broken in May 2015 by Sadio Mane of Southampton.
In total he earned 18 full caps between 1956 and 1960. In 1971 Leggatt emigrated to Canada and served as the first head coach of the Toronto Metros.
Several years later he would become Vice-President and Managing Director for the Edmonton Drillers from 1979 to 1980. He began a second career as an analyst on soccer telecasts for the Canadian Broadcasting Company at the 1976 Summer Olympics and at the World Cup.
He later became host of TSN"s popular Soccer Saturday program as well as an on-air analyst on its soccer telecasts.
He was inducted into the Canadian Soccer Hall of Fame in 2001 as a "builder". Leggat died in August 2015, aged 81. Scores and results list Scotland"s goal tally first.