William Stewart (footballer, born 1875)

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Willie Stewart
Personal information
Full name William Garven Stewart[1]
Date of birth 7 January 1875
Place of birth Crosshill, Scotland
Date of death 30 April 1951(1951-04-30) (aged 76)[1]
Place of death Bootle, England
Position(s) Outside right
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1894–1901 Queen's Park 7 (1)
1896St Bernard's (loan) 0 (0)
1901 Third Lanark 0 (0)
1901–1903 Newcastle United 37 (5)
International career
1898–1900 Scotland 2 (1)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

William Garven Stewart (7 January 1875 – 30 April 1951) was a Scottish footballer who played as an outside right.

Career[edit]

Born in Glasgow, Stewart played club football for Queen's Park (most of his time there being in the period before the club joined the Scottish Football League),[2][3] Third Lanark (appearing in the Scottish Cup only)[4] and Newcastle United, and made two appearances for Scotland.[5] He scored five goals in 41 appearances in all competitions for Newcastle,[6] where he had moved as a result of his profession outside the game as a maritime engineer. He later settled on Merseyside.[1]

References[edit]

  1. ^ a b c Mitchell, Andy (2021). The men who made Scotland: The definitive Who's Who of Scottish Football Internationalists 1872-1939. Amazon. ISBN 9798513846642.
  2. ^ Stewart, William Graham QPFC.com
  3. ^ Stewart, William S. QPFC.com
  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. ^ Paul Smith (2013). Scotland Who's Who: International Players 1872–2013. Pitch Publishing. p. 267.
  6. ^ "Profile". Toon1892. Retrieved 8 July 2015.