William Goudie
William B. Goudie was a footballer who played as a left-half in the Scottish League for Third Lanark, Rangers, Partick Thistle and Falkirk.
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Position(s) | Left-half | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 1896–1898 | Third Lanark | 1 | (0) |
| 1898–1899 | Rangers | 0 | (0) |
| 1899–1901 | Partick Thistle | 36 | (1) |
| 1901–1909 | Falkirk | 2 | (0) |
| 1901 | → Rangers (loan) | 1 | (0) |
| * Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only | |||
Goudie joined Third Lanark on December 31,1896. He then played for Rangers before joining Partick Thistle on August 1,1899. He made 36 Scottish League appearances, and three in the Scottish Cup, for Thistle.[1] He had been due to play in the Scottish Cup first round match against Galston on January 13,1900. The club had arranged with the Caledonian Railway for the train carrying the team to stop at Gorbals to pick up Goudie and John Blackwood, but it did not stop.[2]
Goudie joined Falkirk on September 13, 1901. He made his league debut for the club against Clyde on 16 August 1902. During his time there, he won the Falkirk Infirmary Shield and the Stirlingshire Consolation Cup in 1901–02, and was runner-up in the Dewar Shield in 1903–04.[3] He returned to Rangers on loan briefly in September, 1901.[1]
References
- Litster, John (November 2012). A Record of Pre-War Scottish League Players (2 ed.). Norwich: PM Publications.
- "A Good Claim That Partick Thistle...". Scottish Referee. Lanarkshire. 15 January 1900. p. 1. Retrieved 4 March 2019 – via British Newspaper Archive.
- Meffen, John (21 September 2010). "Falkirk FC the First League Eleven". Falkirk Football Historian. Retrieved 4 March 2019.