Kenneth Anderson was a footballer, who was sadly typical in one respect. He was one of the many players to succumb young to tuberculosis, the scourge of mainly , although in Anderson's case not entirely, of the Scottish working-classes at the time. And he was unusual in that he was a goalkeeper in a Queen's Park team that, for the Scotland team at least, had largely produced out-field players.    

Anderson was born in The Gorbals in 1875. He died by Queen's Park in 1900, aged just twenty-five. In the meantime in a much short life he had played initially for Third Lanark, then for Queen's Park and three time in Scottish blue, including in 1898 against England and always an amateur.