Billy Buchanan
Personal information
Full name William Mack Buchanan[1]
Date of birth (1924-07-29)29 July 1924[1]
Place of birth Tannochside,[1] Scotland
Date of death 14 June 1999(1999-06-14) (aged 74)[1]
Place of death Carlisle,[1] England
Position(s) Full back
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1942–1944 Larkhall Thistle
1944–1949 Motherwell 0 (0)
1949 Carlisle United 9 (0)
1949–1956 Barrow 242 (0)
1956–19?? Morecambe
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

William Mack Buchanan (29 July 1924 – 14 June 1999) was a Scottish professional footballer who played as a full back in the Football League for Carlisle United and Barrow.[1]

Buchanan was born in Tannochside, Lanarkshire.[1] He played football for junior club Larkhall Thistle during the Second World War before joining Motherwell in 1944, but his only first-team appearance was in the 1946–47 Scottish League Cup, and he left for England in 1949.[2] He signed for Carlisle United and played in the first nine league matches of the season before moving on again, together with Billy Gordon and a "substantial" fee, to another Third Division North club, Barrow, in exchange for Alex McIntosh.[3] Buchanan settled at Barrow, and over the next six-and-a-half seasons he made 242 league appearances,[1] after which he played for Lancashire Combination club Morecambe.[4]

Buchanan died in Carlisle, Cumbria, in 1999 at the age of 74.[1]

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 "Billy Buchanan". Barry Hugman's Footballers. Retrieved 19 June 2019.
  2. ↑ A Record of Post-war Scottish League Players 1946/47 to 2017/18. 7. John Litster and Scottish Football Historian magazine. 2018.
  3. ↑ "Alex McIntosh". Evening Telegraph and Post. Dundee. 30 September 1949. p. 12.
  4. ↑ "Morecambe new men bring confidence". Lancashire Evening Post. 14 August 1956. p. 6.


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