Doug Baillie

Doug Baillie
Personal information
Full name	Douglas Rae Daw Collier Baillie
Date of birth	27 January 1937
Place of birth	Douglas Water, Scotland
Date of death	19 February 2022 (aged 85)
Position(s)	Centre-half
Youth career
	Douglas Water Thistle
1952–1953	Airdrieonians
Senior career*
Years	Team
1953–1956	Airdrieonians
1956	Swindon Town
1956–1960	Airdrieonians
1960–1964	Rangers
1964–1965	Third Lanark
1965–1969	Falkirk
1969–1970	Dunfermline Athletic
Total
International career
1955–1958	Scotland U23
	*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Douglas Rae Daw Collier Baillie (27 January 1937 – 19 February 2022) was a Scottish footballer who played as a centre-half in the Scottish Football League and the Football League. He was a backup squad member at Rangers during three of the club's title-winning seasons in the early 1960s, playing a handful of matches in each.^[3] He also made over 100 league appearances for both Airdrieonians and Falkirk.

After retiring as a player, Baillie became a football journalist, working for The Sunday Post.^[4] Baillie died on 19 February 2022, at the age of 85.^[5]

References

^ "Doug Baillie". Barry Hugman's Footballers. Retrieved 21 February 2017.
^ Greatest XI - 4. Centre Back, Airdrieonians FC, 20 February 2016
^ (Rangers player) Baillie, Doug, FitbaStats
^ Shaw, Phil (8 November 1999). "Brown back at Wembley with a mission". The Independent. London. Retrieved 13 February 2011. Brown, by then playing for Falkirk, almost missed the party. "Myself and two team-mates - Doug Baillie, who's now a reporter for the Sunday Post, and John Lambie, who manages Partick Thistle - went for lunch in the West End. The sweet was so long coming that the other two fled after the main course to get the tube to Wembley."
^ "Former Rangers and Airdrie star dies after short illness". Daily Record. 19 February 2022. Retrieved 19 February 2022.

External links

Doug Baillie at Post War English & Scottish Football League A–Z Player's Transfer Database
Player record at Swindon, Watford 2 Swindon 1

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[1] "Doug Baillie". Barry Hugman's Footballers. Retrieved 21 February 2017.

[2] Greatest XI - 4. Centre Back, Airdrieonians FC, 20 February 2016

[3] (Rangers player) Baillie, Doug, FitbaStats

[4] Shaw, Phil (8 November 1999). "Brown back at Wembley with a mission". The Independent. London. Retrieved 13 February 2011. Brown, by then playing for Falkirk, almost missed the party. "Myself and two team-mates - Doug Baillie, who's now a reporter for the Sunday Post, and John Lambie, who manages Partick Thistle - went for lunch in the West End. The sweet was so long coming that the other two fled after the main course to get the tube to Wembley."

[5] "Former Rangers and Airdrie star dies after short illness". Daily Record. 19 February 2022. Retrieved 19 February 2022.

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