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David Wilson (footballer, born 1908)

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David Wilson
Personal information
Date of birth 17 December 1908[1]
Place of birth Hebburn, England[2]
Date of death 22 February 1992(1992-02-22) (aged 83)
Place of death Glasgow, Scotland[1]
Height 5 ft 9 in (1.75 m)[3]
Position(s) Centre forward
Youth career
Hebburn Colliery[4]
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1928–1945 Hamilton Academical 329 (245)
– Stranraer  
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

David Wilson (17 December 1908 – 22 February 1992)[2] was an English footballer who played for Hamilton Academical and Stranraer as a centre forward.[3]

Career

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He finished as the top scorer in the Scottish Football League Division One in the 1936–37 season, with 34 goals.[5] This remains the highest single-season total ever recorded for Hamilton Academical.[6] He scored 246 league goals in 11 seasons prior to the Second World War (and over 400 in 17 years when all cups and unofficial wartime matches are counted),[3] leading to him being described as the club's best ever player,[7] and featured for Accies in the 1935 Scottish Cup Final which they lost 2–1 to Rangers.[8][9]

Wilson was never selected for his native England, nor for the Scottish Football League XI despite his scoring feats in that competition. In June 1935 he toured North America with an SFA squad, scoring eleven times in six matches (all of which are considered unofficial by Scotland, although two appearances came against the USA, whose federation did regard the matches as official).[10][8]

See also

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References

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  1. ^ a b Statutory registers - Deaths - Search results[permanent dead link], ScotlandsPeople
  2. ^ a b Emms, Steve & Wells, Richard (2007). Scottish League Players' Records 1890/91 to 1938/39. Nottingham: Tony Brown. ISBN 978-1-899468-66-9.
  3. ^ a b c Wilson, David (1928) Archived 23 October 2022 at the Wayback Machine, Hamilton Academical Memory Bank
  4. ^ John Litster (October 2012). "A Record of pre-war Scottish League Players". Scottish Football Historian magazine. {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  5. ^ Scotland - List of Topscorers, RSSSF, 20 June 2019
  6. ^ "Soccerbase". Archived from the original on 4 September 2009. Retrieved 12 March 2008.
  7. ^ "Club History". Hamilton Academical F.C. Archived from the original on 17 January 2010. Retrieved 15 February 2010.
  8. ^ a b "Accies in the 1930s". ScottishLeague.net. Retrieved 26 May 2020.
  9. ^ 75 years since Accies' Scottish Cup final against Rangers, Daily Record, 15 April 2010
  10. ^ "Scottish Football Association Tour, 1935". Canadian Soccer History. Retrieved 26 May 2020.


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