Billy Waugh (footballer)

For other people named William Waugh, see William Waugh (disambiguation).

Billy Waugh
Personal information
Full name William Lindsay Waugh[1]
Date of birth (1921-11-27)27 November 1921
Place of birth Edinburgh, Scotland
Date of death 26 March 2009(2009-03-26) (aged 87)
Place of death Felixstowe, England
Height 5 ft 6 in (1.68 m)[2]
Position(s) Winger
Youth career
0000–1938 Meadowbank Thistle
1938–1939 Ratho Amateurs
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1939–1940 Rosewell Rosedale
1939 → Heart of Midlothian (trial)
1940–1944 Bathgate Thistle
1944–1950 Luton Town 135 (9)
1950–1953 Queens Park Rangers 77 (6)
1953–1954 Bournemouth & Boscombe Athletic 18 (3)
1954–1955 Chelmsford City
1955–1956 Bedford Town
1956–1957 Ashford Town 5 (1)
1957– March Town United
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

William Lindsay Waugh (27 November 1921 — 26 March 2009) was a Scottish footballer who played as a winger. He made a total of 230 appearances in the English Football League playing for Luton Town, Queens Park Rangers and Bournemouth & Boscombe Athletic.

Career

At the start of his career Waugh played in his native Scotland for the Edinburgh Juvenile club Meadowbank Thistle.[3] In 1938 whilst only 16 years of age he was with Ratho Amateurs of the Lothian Amateur League.[4] By March 1939 he had signed with Midlothian Junior League club Rosewell Rosedale[5] and in the following August Waugh played in a trial with Scottish Football League club Heart of Midlothian.[6] In 1940 he had moved to Midlothian Junior club Bathgate Thistle.[7]

In August 1944 whilst with the Royal Air Force Waugh joined English club Luton Town:[8] in 1945 the club played in the wartime Football League South before resuming their pre-war position in the Football League Second Division for the 1946–47 season. During his time with Luton he made 135 Football League appearances, scoring nine times.[1] In the summer of 1950 Waugh was transferred for a reported fee of £6,000 to fellow Second Division club Queens Park Rangers.[2] Over the course of three seasons with the club, after the second of which they were relegated to the Football League Third Division South, he scored six times playing in 77 league games. In July 1953 Waugh joined Bournemouth & Boscombe Athletic, also of the Third Division South, for a reported four figure fee.[9] During his single season with the club he played in eighteen matches scoring three goals – the team finished tied in nineteenth place in the league table – and in May 1954 he was placed on the club's "available for transfer" list.[10]

Waugh then moved to Non-League football signing for Chelmsford City of the Southern Football League. After less than a season there, in March 1955, he signed for Bedford Town[11] also of the Southern league and remained with them until the end of the 1955–56 campaign. During the next season Waugh was with Kent League club Ashford Town[12] before signing, in the summer of 1957, with March Town United of the Eastern Counties League.[13]

Personal life

Whilst with the non-league clubs Waugh combined playing with a job as an insurance agent. He spent thirty years as general secretary for Electrolux Sports before retiring in 1986. Billy moved from Luton to Felixstowe before dying in 2009.[14]

References

  1. ^ a b "Billy Waugh". Barry Hugman's Footballers. Retrieved 4 May 2019.
  2. ^ a b "Queens Park Rangers". Yorkshire Post and Leeds Intelligencer. Leeds. 6 July 1950. p. 3.
  3. ^ "Kirknewton". West Lothian Courier. 10 December 1937. p. 3.
  4. ^ "Denial By The Hearts Manager". Edinburgh Evening News. Edinburgh. 21 September 1938. p. 16.
  5. ^ "Thorntree United v. Rosewell Rosedale". Linlithgowshire Gazette. Linlithgow. 31 March 1939. p. 7.
  6. ^ "Tynecastle Attractions". Edinburgh Evening News. Edinburgh. 3 August 1939. p. 14.
  7. ^ "Fine Hearts Victory Recalled". Edinburgh Evening News. Edinburgh. 12 October 1940. p. 6.
  8. ^ "Ratho". West Lothian Courier. Bathgate. 11 August 1944. p. 3.
  9. ^ "Ratho: Footballer's Transfer". West Lothian Courier. Bathgate. 31 July 195. p. 2.
  10. ^ "Close Season Topics Of Soccer World". Coventry Evening Telegraph. Coventry. 29 May 1954. p. 23.
  11. ^ Arsenal F.C. (7 January 1956). Bedford players. p. 8.
  12. ^ "Billy Waugh player profile". www.nutsandboltsarchive.co.uk. Retrieved 30 June 2022.
  13. ^ "March Sign Four". Peterborough Advertiser. Peterborough. 30 July 1957. p. 8.
  14. ^ "Billy Waugh". Hatters' Heritage. Retrieved 17 November 2023.