Red Ballantyne
This article needs additional citations for verification. (October 2012) |
Personal information | |||
---|---|---|---|
Full name | William Ballantyne | ||
Place of birth | Glasgow, Scotland | ||
Position(s) | Inside right | ||
Senior career* | |||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
Morton | |||
Clyde | |||
1924–1925 | Boston | 35 | (2) |
1915–1927 | Clyde | ||
1927–1928 | New Bedford Whalers | ||
1928–1930 | New York Giants | 63 | (23) |
1930–1931 | Brooklyn Wanderers | ||
New York Americans | |||
Kearny Scots-Americans | |||
Newark Germans | |||
Managerial career | |||
Newark Germans | |||
*Club domestic league appearances and goals |
Willie "Red" Ballantyne was a Scottish association football inside right who played in Scotland, the United States, and Canada.
Ballantyne played for both Morton and Clyde, before jumping to the Boston Soccer Club of the American Soccer League in 1924. He was back in Scotland with Clyde a year later. After two seasons with Clyde, Ballantyne returned to the United States to sign with the New Bedford Whalers.[1] In 1928, he began the season with the Whalers, but the onset of the soccer wars between the league and the United States Football Association brought considerable turmoil to the professional scene. The Whalers briefly left the ASL for the newly created outlaw league, the Eastern Soccer League. After a handful of games, it returned to the ASL. However, Ballantyne refused to make the move back to the ASL and joined the IINew York Giants in the ESL. This move occurred by December 1928, Ballantyne had moved to the .[2] He remained with the Giants after the ASL merged with the ESL in 1930. In the fall of 1930, Ballantyne joined the Brooklyn Wanderers. He then signed with the New York Americans and later played for Montréal Carsteel and then the Kearny Scots-Americans in the second ASL after the original league collapsed in 1933. He was with the Newark Germans in 1935 as a player-manager.[3]
External links
- Jose, Colin (1998). American Soccer League, 1921–1931 (Hardback). The Scarecrow Press. (ISBN 0-8108-3429-4).
References
- Use dmy dates from June 2013
- American Soccer League (1921–1933) players
- American Soccer League (1933–1983) players
- Boston Wonder Workers players
- Brooklyn Wanderers players
- Clyde F.C. players
- Eastern Professional Soccer League (1928–29) players
- Greenock Morton F.C. players
- Kearny Scots-Americans players
- Newark Germans players
- New York Americans (soccer) (1930–1933) players
- New York Giants (soccer) players
- Scottish footballers
- Scottish expatriate footballers
- Scottish football managers
- Scottish expatriate football managers
- Association football forwards
- Scottish expatriate sportspeople in the United States
- Expatriate soccer players in the United States