The three Logan boys were from a Barrhead family, their father a Stonemason, who would die in 1891, aged fifty, Tom aged just three. And all would become very successful professional footballers, each following similar paths but with different fates.

Alex was the eldest, born in 1882. He would over a dozen seasons go on as a forward to play for nine clubs, north and south of the border, finishing aged well into his thirties in 1914 at Partick Thistle but with his most productive seasons spent at Falkirk. He would then transfer from the sports- to the battle-field, serving in the Queen's Own Cameron and the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders and almost seeing the War out but sadly not quite. He was wounded during the Battle of Cambrai in 1918, dying at thirty-five a month almost to the day before the armistice.

James was the middle one, born in 1884, a half-back or right full-back. His clubs over fifteen years, albeit including the War, numbered five, again in both the Scottish and English leagues, with his dozen best years being at Aston Villa and Rangers, at both winning league titles and at the former for two campaigns playing with and behind Alex.