Willie Walker (Queen's Park footballer)
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | William Fulton Walker[1] | ||
| Date of birth | 1888 | ||
| Place of birth | Paisley, Scotland | ||
| Date of death | 1974 (aged 85–86)[2] | ||
| Place of death | Paisley, Scotland | ||
| Position(s) | Centre forward | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 1911–1914 | Queen's Park | 23 | (9) |
| *Club domestic league appearances and goals | |||
William Fulton Walker (1888–1974) was a Scottish amateur footballer who played as a centre forward in the Scottish League for Queen's Park.[3]
Personal life
[edit]Walker's brothers Jim and Frank were also Queen's Park footballers.[4][5] Prior to the First World War, Walker worked for the Todd & Walker law firm in Paisley.[4] During the war, he served as a second lieutenant in the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders and was wounded in May 1917.[1][4]
Career statistics
[edit]| Club | Season | League | Scottish Cup | Other | Total | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Division | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | ||
| Queen's Park | 1911–12[3] | Scottish Division One | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 1 |
| 1912–13[3] | 13 | 7 | 1 | 2 | 1[a] | 0 | 15 | 9 | ||
| 1913–14[3] | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | ||
| 1914–15[3] | 3 | 1 | ― | 1[b] | 0 | 4 | 1 | |||
| Career total | 23 | 9 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 26 | 11 | ||
- ^ Appearance in Glasgow Merchants Charity Cup
- ^ Appearance in Glasgow Cup
References
[edit]- ^ a b Willie Walker on Lives of the First World War
- ^ "Statutory registers – Deaths – Search results". ScotlandsPeople. Retrieved 17 January 2021.
- ^ a b c d e "Walker, William F." QPFC.com – A Historical Queen's Park FC Website. Retrieved 11 October 2016.
- ^ a b c "Queen's Park And The Great War: 1914 To 1918" (PDF). p. 14. Retrieved 14 October 2016.
- ^ "Queen's Park Players and Professionalism". Edinburgh Evening News. 11 August 1928. Retrieved 18 January 2021.
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- 1888 births
- 1974 deaths
- Scottish men's footballers
- Footballers from Paisley, Renfrewshire
- Scottish Football League players
- British Army personnel of World War I
- Men's association football forwards
- Queen's Park F.C. players
- Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders officers
- Scottish football forward, 1880s birth stubs