Archie Robertson (shinty player)
Archie Robertson (born 1950 in Kiltarlity, Scotland) is an ex-shinty player and internationalist and current president of the Camanachd Association.
Playing career[edit]
Robertson was born and brought up in Kiltarlity but his family connections were originally in Skye.[1][permanent dead link]
Robertson started his playing career with Lovat but moved to Glasgow in 1973 and started playing for Glasgow Mid Argyll in the year GMA won the Camanachd Cup.[2][permanent dead link] He was also capped by Scotland at Compromise rules shinty-hurling.
On retirement from the playing side of shinty, Robertson took on a management role at GMA. He also became a committee member of GMA and the Glasgow Celtic Society.[3]
He became a co-opted member of the Camanachd Association board of directors in 2007 and capped his rise to the top of the sport's administration with his election to the post of President-elect in December 2010 and won by 21 votes to 11.[4][permanent dead link] He will assume the Presidency in April 2011 at the Camanachd Association A.G.M..[5][permanent dead link]
He may still be challenged under an obscure bye-law which allows the President-elect to be challenged on the night of the A.G.M. where he is to be confirmed. The man Robertson defeated comprehensively, Donald Stewart, did not make a bid to usurp Robertson at the 2011 A.G.M. and he was confirmed as President.[6]