Billy Lewis | |
Fullname: | William Lindsay Lewis |
Height: | 5ft 9in |
Position: | Centre half |
Birth Date: | 29 March 1931[1] |
Birth Place: | Kilwinning, Scotland |
Death Place: | Irvine, Scotland |
Years1: | 1951–1953 |
Clubs1: | Irvine Meadow |
Years2: | 1953–1956 |
Clubs2: | Morton |
Years3: | 1956–1964 |
Clubs3: | Third Lanark |
Caps3: | 181 |
Goals3: | 6 |
Years4: | – |
William Lindsay Lewis (29 March 1931 – 12 November 2015) was a Scottish footballer who played mainly as a centre half for Morton[2] (making over 100 appearances in all competitions) and Third Lanark[3] (achieving a promotion to the top tier in 1956–57, playing on the losing side in the 1959 Scottish League Cup Final, helping the club to a third-place finish in the 1960–61 Scottish Division One campaign, and winning the Glasgow Cup in the 1962–63 season).[4]
He began his career – playing in a more attacking position – in junior football with Irvine Meadow, a club his son Rab also played for in the 1970s with some success.[5]