Pat Savage
Personal information
Full name Patrick Savage[1]
Date of birth 19 November 1882
Place of birth Cowdenbeath, Scotland
Date of death 9 November 1969(1969-11-09) (aged 86)[2]
Place of death Cowdenbeath, Scotland
Position(s) Goalkeeper
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
Cowdenbeath Athletic
1905–1908 Cowdenbeath 4 (0)
1908–1910 Dunfermline Athletic
1910–1911 Hearts of Beath
1911–1912 St Bernard's
1912–1914 King's Park
1914–1919 Cowdenbeath 18 (0)
1915 → Reading (guest)
Hearts of Beath
1921–1922 St Bernard's 2 (0)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Patrick Savage (19 November 1882 – 9 November 1969) was a Scottish professional footballer who played as a goalkeeper in the Scottish League for Cowdenbeath, Dunfermline Athletic and St Bernard's.[2] He also served as assistant trainer at King's Park.[2]

Personal life

Savage worked as a miner and his uncle James also played football as a full back for Cowdenbeath.[1] In 1915, during the first 12 months of the First World War, he enlisted in the Fife and Forfar Yeomanry and his battalion would later become a member of the Black Watch.[1] Savage saw action during the Mesopotamian campaign and on the Western Front.[1] After the war, he returned to work as a miner and later as a barman.[1]

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 "A Fife Footballers Great War Story". The Black Watch Castle & Museum. 25 February 2015. Retrieved 26 April 2017.
  2. 1 2 3 Litster, John. Record of Pre-War Scottish League Players. Norwich: PM Publications.


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