Willie Cringan
Personal information
Full name William Cringan
Date of birth 21 April 1890
Place of birth Muirkirk, Scotland
Date of death 12 May 1958(1958-05-12) (aged 68)
Place of death Bathgate, Scotland
Position(s) Centre half
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
Douglas Water Thistle
1910–1917 Sunderland 77 (2)
1916–1917 → Ayr United (loan) 53 (2)
1917 Ayr United 6 (0)
1917–1923 Celtic 203 (9)
1923–1924 Third Lanark 30 (0)
1924–1925 Motherwell 16 (1)
1925 Inverness Thistle 16 (1)
1925–1926 Bathgate
Total 399 (14)
International career
1919–1921 Scottish Football League XI 4 (0)
Scotland (wartime) 1 (0)
1920–1923 Scotland 5 (0)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

William Cringan (21 April 1890 – 12 May 1958) was a Scottish footballer who played for Sunderland, Ayr United, Celtic, Third Lanark and Motherwell, and for the Scotland national team.

Career

Club

Cringan, a centre half, started his senior career when he joined Sunderland from Douglas Water Thistle in 1910.[1][2] After five and a half seasons on Wearside, and with English football suspended during World War I, he returned to Scotland with Ayr United on a temporary transfer in January 1916. In the summer of 1917 he left the Black Cats to join Ayr on a permanent basis,[3] signing for Celtic in a £600 transfer deal a few months after that.[1]

Cringan was appointed Celtic captain soon after his arrival, a position he held until his departure.[4] During this time the club won the 1918–19 and 1921–22 Scottish League titles[5] and the Scottish Cup in 1923. He eventually left the Parkhead club in October 1923 when he joined Third Lanark. A year later he moved to Motherwell, where he moved away from top-level football following the 1924–25 season, with short spells outside the league with Inverness Thistle and Bathgate before retiring altogether.[3]

International

Cringan was first selected for the Scottish national side on 26 February 1920, captaining the side in a 1–1 draw against Wales. He was not selected again until 1923 but would eventually win a total of five international caps, three as captain.[6] Cringan also featured in four matches for a Scottish Football League select side.[7]

Personal life

Cringan's brother Jimmy was also a professional footballer, who played for twelve seasons with Birmingham between 1922 and 1934.[1] Another brother Robert played for Ayr United.[8]

Cringan married the sister of footballer Peter Nellies;[9] the brothers-in-law played together once for the Scottish League XI in 1919.[10]

Honours

Sunderland
Celtic[4]

See also

References

  1. 1 2 3 Lamming, Douglas (1987). A Scottish Soccer Internationalists Who's Who, 1872–1986. Hutton Press. ISBN 0-907033-47-4.
  2. ↑ Billy Cringan, TheStatCat
  3. 1 2 John Litster (October 2012). "A Record of pre-war Scottish League Players". Scottish Football Historian magazine. {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  4. 1 2 (Celtic player) Cringan, William, FitbaStats
  5. ↑ Brown, Alan. Scotland – Championship Winning Teams 1900–1920, Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation. Retrieved 22 June 2007
  6. ↑ William Cringan at the Scottish Football Association
  7. ↑ "SFL player Willie Cringan". London Hearts Supporters' Club. Retrieved 3 December 2011.
  8. ↑ Cringan, Robert (1918), Hamilton Academical Memory Bank
  9. ↑ Statutory registers – Marriages – Search results, ScotlandsPeople
  10. ↑ Association Football | The Inter-League Game, The Glasgow Herald, 24 February 1919
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