Red Ballantyne
Personal information
Full name William McCaw Ballantyne
Date of birth 15 November 1901
Place of birth Possilpark, Scotland
Date of death 1944 (aged 42–43)
Place of death United States
Position(s) Inside right
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
Shettleston
1922–1924 Clyde 38 (9)
1924–1925 Boston 35 (2)
1925–1927 Clyde 66 (19)
1927–1928 New Bedford Whalers
1928–1930 New York Giants 63 (23)
1930–1931 Brooklyn Wanderers
New York Americans
Kearny Scots-Americans
Newark Germans
Managerial career
Newark Germans
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

William McCaw "Red" Ballantyne (15 November 1901 – 1944) was a Scottish association football inside right who played in Scotland, the United States, and Canada.

Ballantyne played for both Morton and Clyde, before jumping to the Boston Soccer Club of the American Soccer League in 1924.[1] He was back in Scotland with Clyde a year later.[2] After two seasons with Clyde, Ballantyne returned to the United States to sign with the New Bedford Whalers.[3] In 1928, he began the season with the Whalers, but the onset of the soccer wars between the league and the United States Football Association brought considerable turmoil to the professional scene. The Whalers briefly left the ASL for the newly created outlaw league, the Eastern Soccer League. After a handful of games, it returned to the ASL. However, Ballantyne refused to make the move back to the ASL and joined the New York Giants in the ESL. This move occurred by December 1928.[4] He remained with the Giants after the ASL merged with the ESL in 1930. In the fall of 1930, Ballantyne joined the Brooklyn Wanderers.[5] He then signed with the New York Americans and later played for Montréal Carsteel and then the Kearny Scots-Americans in the second ASL after the original league collapsed in 1933. He was with the Newark Germans in 1935 as a player-manager.[6]

His elder brother Johnny and younger brother Bobby were also footballers who played for clubs in Scotland and the United States.[7]

  • Jose, Colin (1998). American Soccer League, 1921–1931 (Hardback). The Scarecrow Press. ISBN 0-8108-3429-4. ().

References

  1. ↑ Willie Ballantyne, StatsCrew. Retrieved 12 April 2022
  2. ↑ John Litster (October 2012). "A Record of pre-war Scottish League Players". Scottish Football Historian magazine. {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  3. ↑ A GLANCE AT SOCCER IN AMERICAN LEAGUE, The Globe-Times, Saturday 9, 1927; via Bethlehem Steel
  4. ↑ BETHLEHEM CRIPPLED WINS AND LOSES GAME, The Globe-Times, 24 December 1928; via Bethlehem Steel
  5. ↑ "Red" Ballantyne Will Be Waiting For Celtics, The Boston Globe, 6 June 1931; via Newspapers.com
  6. ↑ Scottish FA tour of North America 1935
  7. ↑ Ballantyne, Johnny 1920-21 & 1928-29, Partick Thistle History Archive. Retrieved 12 April 2022
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