Personal information | |||
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Date of birth | 7 February 1866 | ||
Place of birth | Partick, Scotland [1] | ||
Date of death | 23 October 1911[1] | (aged 45)||
Place of death | Govan, Scotland | ||
Position(s) | Centre forward | ||
Senior career* | |||
Years | Team | Apps | ( Gls) |
1884–1901 | Partick Thistle | 106 | (73) |
1890 | → Queen's Park (loan) | 0 | (0) |
International career | |||
1888–1890 | Scotland | 3 | (5) |
*Club domestic league appearances and goals |
William Paul (7 February 1866 – 23 October 1911) was a Scottish footballer who played for Partick Thistle and Scotland as a centre forward.
Paul featured for Partick Thistle across three decades, with his statistics in competitive matches for the club standing at 127 goals in 218 appearances. [1] As an amateur, he was free to play for other teams and assisted Queen's Park on several occasions, [2] particularly in the 1890–91 season, [3] also playing for the Clydesdale Harriers (today purely an athletics club but in that era also involved in football, its members including several of the west of Scotland's leading players). [4] [5]
He was capped three times by Scotland and scored five goals [6] (including four in one match in 1890). [1]
Paul also worked as a shipwright at the Glasgow dockyards. [1] He died in 1911, at age 45, from an appendix-related ailment. [1] He was buried in the Western Necropolis in Maryhill. [1]