Patrick Hagan

Patrick Hagan
Hagan while with Brentford in 1906.
Personal information
Full name Patrick Hagan[1]
Date of birth October 1879
Place of birth Canongate, Scotland
Date of death 14 July 1916 (aged 36)[1]
Place of death Beaumont-Hamel, France
Position(s) Forward
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1899–1900 Linfield 10 (4)
1903–1905 Linfield
1905–1906 Hibernian 26 (6)
1906–1908 Brentford 49 (9)
1908 Hibernian 9 (3)
1908–1910 Port Glasgow Athletic 57 (12)
International career
1903–1904 Irish League XI 3
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Patrick Hagan (October 1879 – 14 July 1916) was a Scottish professional footballer of Irish descent who played as a forward in the Scottish League for Hibernian and Port Glasgow Athletic.[2] He won five pieces of silverware with Irish League club Linfield between 1903 and 1904.[3][4]

Personal life

Hagan served in the Second Boer War with the Royal Scots and later served in the 11th Battalion during the First World War.[5][6] On 14 July 1916, at age 36, he was killed in the vicinity of Beaumont-Hamel, during the Battle of the Somme.[3] Hagan was commemorated on the Thiepval Memorial, Pier and Face 6D and 7D.[1]

Career statistics

Appearances and goals by club, season and competition
Club Season League National cup[a] Total
Division Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals
Hibernian 1905–06[2] Scottish League First Division 25 6 5 3 30 9
Brentford 1906–07[7] Southern League First Division 33 5 4 2 37 7
1907–08[7] Southern League First Division 16 4 2 0 18 4
Total 49 9 6 2 55 11
Hibernian 1907–08[2] Scottish League First Division 9 3 1 0 10 3
Total 34 9 6 3 40 12
Port Glasgow Athletic 1908–09[2] Scottish League First Division 30 10 2 0 32 10
1909–10[2] Scottish League First Division 27 2 1 0 28 2
Total 57 12 3 0 60 12
Career total 140 30 15 5 155 35
  1. ^ Includes Scottish Cup, FA Cup

Honours

Linfield

References

  1. ^ a b c "Casualty Details". Commonwealth War Graves Commission. Retrieved 25 December 2015.
  2. ^ a b c d e Litster, John. Record of Pre-War Scottish League Players. Norwich: PM Publications.
  3. ^ a b c d e f g "Remembering the sacrifice of a former Linfield player at the Somme 100 years ago today". Linfield FC. Retrieved 25 December 2015.
  4. ^ "Irish Football League Inter-League – 1892/93 – 1899/00". www.glenniewebdesign.com. Archived from the original on 6 January 2017. Retrieved 6 January 2017.
  5. ^ "Hibernian Football Club in The Great War". 4 August 2014. Retrieved 11 September 2015.
  6. ^ "Patrick Hagan | Service Record". Football and the First World War. Retrieved 26 April 2020.
  7. ^ a b White, Eric, ed. (1989). 100 Years Of Brentford. Brentford FC. p. 359. ISBN 0951526200.


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