First captain of the club. And probably done as much to make the club a success in it's early years as could be imagined. a b Murray, Scott (3 May 2001). "Merger memories". The Guardian. Archived from the original on 2 October 2013 . Retrieved 22 February 2010. Lawrie retained his lifelong passion for the club he graced as a player and was a regular attender at matches, a matchday host and was one of the club's Champions. He will be sadly missed." Real Madrid, Barcelona and Juventus are still not walking away from the failed European Super League

Of the five only Ormond was brought in from another Club, Stenhousemuir, whilst the other four were signed as youngsters and fought their way through the reserves and into the starting eleven. All made their first team debuts at different times and they first came together as a forward line in April 1949 in a friendly against Nithsdale Wanderers whilst their competitive match debut came later that same year on October 15th when Hibs entertained Queen of the South, winning the game 2-0 through goals from Smith and Turnbull in front of some 25,000 fans. Reilly scored 187 league goals (238 overall) for Hibs, winning three league tiles during his career at Easter Road.

Classic Match: Hibs 5–0 Napoli, 29 November 1967". The Scotsman. Johnston Press. 24 March 2008. Archived from the original on 26 December 2008 . Retrieved 23 February 2010. Scottish Cup final: Hibs progress despite defeat – Pat Fenlon". BBC Sport. 26 May 2013. Archived from the original on 9 June 2013 . Retrieved 28 May 2013. That same year Smith was destined to become part of British footballing history when Hibs accepted an invitation to play in a tournament then named the European Cup and subsequently reborn as the Champions League. Hibs were the first British Club to compete and reached the semi finals before losing to a Stad Rhiems side which included the brilliant Raymond Kopa who despite being on the losing side in the Final impressed Real Madrid so much that they signed him and he went on to earn legendary status at The Bernabeu.

Andrews, Neil (January 2011). "Great Britain v Europe". When Saturday Comes . Retrieved 10 September 2017. A side-effect of this internationalism was the emergence of the independence of the manager in charge of the playing staff (when Tommy Docherty replaced Bobby Brown in charge of the Scotland team in 1971 he was given a free hand, and paid significantly more than Sir Alf Ramsey.) But with this success came clubs undoing. The year of Dundee's European adventure 1962-63 season, there was a mini-revolt from the Players wanting bigger signing on fees for winning the League.Football was becoming a leisure industry. Slowly, over the period between the 1960s and '70s, football clubs would develop from being sporting institutions rooted in their community to big businesses. a b c d e f g Hannan, Martin (20 May 2001). "Whose grass-roots are the greener?". Scotland on Sunday. Johnston Press. Archived from the original on 4 January 2016 . Retrieved 9 March 2020.