Title: Obituary of Mr Jack Harkness

Source: The Times (London, England). (Oct. 29, 1985): News:

Jack Harkness, MBE, who died in Glasgow on October 6, aged 78, was a distinguished amateur footballer who kept goal for Scotland.

He played for Queen's Park, Glasgow, an amateur team that had an annual fixture against the Corinthians, and for Heart of Midlothian. The first of his 11 caps for Scotland came when he was 19. One of the best remembered of these occasions was in 1928 when he was one of the Wembley Wizards team that defeated England.

Harkness brought off a brilliant save that changed the course of the match. With the score at 0-0, the England left-winger, Bill Smith, had broken clean through the Scottish defence and seemed sure to score, but Harkness, advancing to narrow the angle of the shot, just deflected the ball. It rebounded off a post and in the subsequent immediate counter-attack Scotland scored, and went on to score four more to England's one.

Harkness, who was later appointed MBE, was with his cheerful and unassuming manner a firm favourite with the crowd, and was respected by a much wider football public. On retirement from the game he joined the Sunday Post as a football writer.

Taken from timesonline.co.uk