Pat Savage
Appearance
Personal information | |||
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Full name | Patrick Savage[1] | ||
Date of birth | 19 November 1882 | ||
Place of birth | Cowdenbeath, Scotland | ||
Date of death | 9 November 1969[2] | (aged 86)||
Place of death | Cowdenbeath, Scotland | ||
Position(s) | Goalkeeper | ||
Senior career* | |||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
Cowdenbeath Athletic | |||
1905–1908 | Cowdenbeath | 4 | (0) |
1908–1910 | Dunfermline Athletic | ||
1910–1911 | Hearts of Beath | ||
1911–1912 | St Bernard's | ||
1912–1914 | King's Park | ||
1914–1919 | Cowdenbeath | 18 | (0) |
1915 | → Reading (guest) | ||
Hearts of Beath | |||
1921–1922 | St Bernard's | 2 | (0) |
*Club domestic league appearances and goals |
Patrick Savage (19 November 1882 – 9 November 1969) was a Scottish professional footballer who played as a goalkeeper in the Scottish League for Cowdenbeath, Dunfermline Athletic and St Bernard's.[2] He also served as assistant trainer at King's Park.[2]
Personal life
[edit]Savage worked as a miner and his uncle James also played football as a full back for Cowdenbeath.[1] In 1915, during the first 12 months of the First World War, he enlisted in the Fife and Forfar Yeomanry and his battalion would later become a member of the Black Watch.[1] Savage saw action during the Mesopotamian campaign and on the Western Front.[1] After the war, he returned to work as a miner and later as a barman.[1]
References
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Categories:
- Scottish men's footballers
- 1969 deaths
- Black Watch soldiers
- British Army personnel of World War I
- 1882 births
- Scottish Football League players
- Cowdenbeath F.C. players
- Footballers from Cowdenbeath
- Dunfermline Athletic F.C. players
- Reading F.C. wartime guest players
- St Bernard's F.C. players
- Scottish miners
- Bartenders
- King's Park F.C. players
- Men's association football goalkeepers
- Scottish football goalkeeper stubs