Peter Scarff was born in 1908 and played alongside Charlie Napier in the early 1930s, when they were both considered highly talented young forwards. He was in the team that beat Rangers for the 1930 Glasgow Cup, and won the 1931 Scottish Cup final against Motherwell in a replay. The legend James McGrory considered this Celtic team the best he played with, and Scarff was an important and quickly improving part of it.

Scarff went on the 1931 tour of America with Celtic, and also played in the match where John Thompson was killed. Following a game against Leith Athletic in December 1931, Scarff began to cough up blood, and exactly two years later, at the age of only 25, he died of Tuberculosis.

During his career Scarff won one cap for Scotland, in a 1931 draw against Northern Ireland. He will always be remembered as a talented and promising young man, who was sadly to join the all-too-long list of men who died while still on the books at Celtic.




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