John Stuart "Johnny" McMillan (16 February 1871 – 4 November 1941) was a Scottish

Scotland

Scotland is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. Occupying the northern third of the island of Great Britain, it shares a border with England to the south and is bounded by the North Sea to the east, the Atlantic Ocean to the north and west, and the North Channel and Irish Sea to the...

 football player and manager. He made nearly 400 appearances in the Football League

The Football League

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 in the 1890s and 1900s, playing at inside left

Inside forward

In football, the position of inside forward was popularly used in the late nineteenth and first half of the 20th centuries. The inside forwards would support the centre forwards, running and making space in the opposition defence, and, as the passing game developed, supporting him with passes...

 or centre forward.

Playing career

McMillan was born in Port Glasgow

Port Glasgow

Port Glasgow is the second largest town in the Inverclyde council area of Scotland. The population according to the 1991 census for Port Glasgow was 19426 persons and in the 2001 census was 16617 persons...

. He began his career with home-town club Port Glasgow Athletic

Port Glasgow Athletic F.C.

Port Glasgow Athletic were a senior Scottish Football club formed in 1880. It was originally named Broadfield before changing its name in 1881....

 before joining Edinburgh

Edinburgh

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-based club St Bernards. He moved to England

England

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 to join Derby County

Derby County F.C.

Derby County Football Club is an English football based in Derby. the club play in the Football League Championship and is notable as being one of the twelve founder members of the Football League in 1888 and is, therefore, one of only ten clubs to have competed in every season of the English...

 in 1890. In 1896 he moved to Leicester Fosse

Leicester City F.C.

Leicester City Football Club , also known as The Foxes, is an English professional football club based at the King Power Stadium in Leicester...

, before signing for Small Heath

Birmingham City F.C.

Birmingham City Football Club is a professional association football club based in the city of Birmingham, England. Formed in 1875 as Small Heath Alliance, they became Small Heath in 1888, then Birmingham in 1905, finally becoming Birmingham City in 1943.They were relegated at the end of the...

 in January 1901.

He made his debut for the club in February 1901, and his 13 goals in the remaining 13 games of the 1900–01 season, which included the winning goal in four of those games, made a major contribution to Small Heath's securing runners-up spot in the Second Division

Football League Second Division

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 and promotion

Promotion and relegation

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 to the First Division

Football League First Division

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. Injury forced him to miss a part of the 1901–02 season, in which the club were relegated, and his contribution to their runners-up position in 1902–03 was severely curtailed by injury.

In 1903 he moved once again to Bradford City

Bradford City A.F.C.

Bradford City Association Football Club is an English association football club based in Bradford, West Yorkshire, playing in League Two....

, who were entering the Football League for the first time. McMillan was selected as captain by his fellow players for Bradford in the club's first ever league match, a 2–0 defeat to Grimsby Town

Grimsby Town F.C.

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 on 1 September 1903. He finished the 1903–04

1903-04 in English football

The 1903–04 season was the 33rd season of competitive football in England.-Events:For the first time ever, a London team, Woolwich Arsenal, is promoted to the First Division and makes the League's reach nationwide...

 season as the club's top scorer and played for two more seasons at City, scoring 24 goals in 82 league games, before moving to Glossop North End

Glossop North End A.F.C.

Glossop North End A.F.C. are an English football club based in Glossop, Derbyshire. Former members of the Football League, they are currently in the North West Counties League and are members of the Derbyshire County Football Association. They play their home matches at Surrey Street, which has a...

.

Managerial career

McMillan returned to Birmingham as trainer in 1909. He went on to manage Gillingham

Gillingham F.C.

Gillingham Football Club is an English professional football club based in the town of Gillingham, Kent. The only Kent-based club in the Football League, they play their home matches at the Priestfield Stadium...

 from 1920 to 1922, and was the first man to take charge of the team in a Football League match, Gillingham having been elected to the league in 1920. This was his only known managerial appointment, after which he left the game to run a pub in Derby

Derby

Derby , is a city and unitary authority in the East Midlands region of England. It lies upon the banks of the River Derwent and is located in the south of the ceremonial county of Derbyshire. In the 2001 census, the population of the city was 233,700, whilst that of the Derby Urban Area was 229,407...

. He died in Derby in 1941 at the age of 70.

McMillan's son Stuart

Stuart McMillan (cricketer)

Stuart McMillan was an English cricketer and footballer and later became a manager. He was a right-handed batsman and a right-arm medium-fast bowler who played for Derbyshire. He was born in Leicester and died in Ashbourne...

 was a footballer, Derbyshire

Derbyshire County Cricket Club

Derbyshire County Cricket Club is one of the 18 major county clubs which make up the England and Wales domestic cricket structure, representing the historic county of Derbyshire...

 cricketer

Cricketer

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, and manager of Derby County F.C. from 1946 to 1953.