David Wilson (footballer, born 1908) explained

David Wilson
Height:5ft 9in
Position:Centre forward
Birth Date:17 December 1908
Birth Place:Hebburn, England[1]
Death Place:Glasgow, Scotland[2]
Youthclubs1:Hebburn Colliery[3]
Years1:1928–1945
Clubs1:Hamilton Academical
Caps1:329
Goals1:245
Years2:–
Clubs2:Stranraer

David Wilson (17 December 1908 – 22 February 1992)[1] was an English footballer who played for Hamilton Academical and Stranraer as a centre forward.[4]

Career

He finished as the top scorer in the Scottish Football League Division One in the 1936–37 season, with 34 goals.[5] This remains the highest single-season total ever recorded for Hamilton Academical.[6] He scored 246 league goals in 11 seasons prior to the Second World War (and over 400 in 17 years when all cups and unofficial wartime matches are counted),[4] leading to him being described as the club's best ever player,[7] and featured for Accies in the 1935 Scottish Cup Final which they lost 2–1 to Rangers.[8]

Wilson was never selected for his native England, nor for the Scottish Football League XI despite his scoring feats in that competition. In June 1935 he toured North America with an SFA squad, scoring eleven times in six matches (all of which are considered unofficial by Scotland, although two appearances came against the USA, whose federation did regard the matches as official).[9] [10]

See also

Notes and References

  1. Book: Scottish League Players' Records 1890/91 to 1938/39 . Steve . Emms . Richard . Wells . 2007 . Tony Brown . Nottingham . 978-1-899468-66-9 . amp.
  2. https://www.scotlandspeople.gov.uk/record-results?search_type=people&dl_cat=statutory&dl_rec=statutory-deaths&surname=Wilson&surname_so=syn&forename=David&forename_so=syn&other_surname_so=exact&mmsurname_so=exact&sex=M&from_year=1992&birth_year=1909&birth_year_range=1&record_type=stat_deaths Statutory registers - Deaths - Search results
  3. A Record of pre-war Scottish League Players. John Litster. Scottish Football Historian magazine. October 2012.
  4. https://sites.google.com/site/hamiltonacademicalmemorybank/players/Wilson-David-1928 Wilson, David (1928)
  5. https://www.rsssf.org/tabless/scottops.html Scotland - List of Topscorers
  6. Web site: Soccerbase . 12 March 2008 . 4 September 2009 . https://web.archive.org/web/20090904193613/http://www.soccerbase.com/team_records.sd?teamid=1187 . dead .
  7. Web site: Club History. Hamilton Academical F.C.. 2010-02-15. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20100117130933/http://www.acciesfc.co.uk/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=523&Itemid=173. 17 January 2010. dmy-all.
  8. https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/local-news/75-years-accies-scottish-cup-2426141.amp 75 years since Accies' Scottish Cup final against Rangers
  9. Web site: Scottish Football Association Tour, 1935. Canadian Soccer History . 26 May 2020.
  10. Web site: Accies in the 1930s . ScottishLeague.net. 26 May 2020 .

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