In the same year, 1902, as Colin McNab was born on East Main St. in Darvel but would not stay long in the village so in neighbouring Newmilns there would be the birth of another footballer of note, indeed another Scotland right-half, one we again have no photograph to match the shirt. He was Hugh Morton. 

But that is where the comparison could be said to end. For Morton played the best part of his almost four hundred games over fifteen years almost locally at Kilmarnock, winning the Scottish Cup in 1929 and two caps against Germany and The Netherlands on Scotland's first ever Summer Tour in 1930. And at the end of his career on field in 1937, whilst still first coaching, then managing the reserves in the late 1940s and being a director from 1951 to 1958, he would return to live in Darvel, where he had played as a junior. Indeed he was to die still in Darvel, incidentally by Morton Park and yards from Darvel F.C.'s ground, in 1980 at the of seventy seven.

And here there is another comparison with a locally-born international, Alec Smith. He had returned to Darvel once more to become, as Morton did a generation later, a partner in a lace-making concern. Indeed lace-making was almost in Morton's blood. His father, Darvel-born Nichol, on Hugh's birth in Jeffrey Place, Newmilns, his mother's village, had been a Lace-Curtain Reader, his father before him, also Nichol, too had been a Lace Worker. Hugh's elder brother, also Nichol, would be a Manufacturer and their father would die a lace-factory manager. And in 1921, now with the family moved to Darvel and the year before he made his debut at Killy Hugh too is involved. He is a clerk at Morton Bros, Madras manufacturers, seemingly with a family connection, his father indeed already manager at Henry Gebbie and Co., Lace Manufacturers with his brother also a manager at another lace manufacturer, this time with a possible family connection once more. It was Henderson, Morton, Inglis.