Bill Cassidy (footballer, born 1940)

Bill Cassidy
Personal information
Full name William Pitt Cassidy[1]
Date of birth (1940-10-04)4 October 1940[1]
Place of birth Hamilton, Scotland
Date of death 9 March 1995(1995-03-09) (aged 54)[2]
Place of death Oxford, England
Height 5 ft 9 in (1.75 m)[2]
Playing position Left half, inside forward
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
195?–1958 Burnbank Swifts
1958 Hamilton Academical 1 (0)
1958 Coltness United
1958–1961 Rangers 0 (0)
1961–1962 Rotherham United 25 (1)
1962–1967 Brighton & Hove Albion 118 (25)
1967–1968 Chelmsford City
1968 Detroit Cougars 20 (3)
1968–1971 Cambridge United[lower-alpha 1] 31 (6)
1971–1972 Kettering Town
1972–197? Ramsgate Athletic
1975–1977 Brora Rangers
Teams managed
1977–1979 Ross County
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only

William Pitt Cassidy (4 October 1940 – 9 March 1995) was a Scottish professional football player and manager. He made 174 English Football League appearances playing for Rotherham United, Brighton & Hove Albion and Cambridge United.[1] He also played one Scottish League match as a trialist for Hamilton Academical,[3] and spent the 1968 North American Soccer League season with the Detroit Cougars.[2] He also played junior football for Burnbank Swifts and Coltness United and English non-league football for Chelmsford City, Kettering Town and Ramsgate Athletic.[3][4] He went on to act as player-coach of Highland League club Brora Rangers[5] and managed Ross County, also of the Highland League.[6]

Cassidy was born in Hamilton, South Lanarkshire, in 1940 and died in Oxford in 1995 at the age of 54.[1]

Notes

  1. ↑ Cambridge United figures include Football League matches only.

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 "Bill Cassidy". Barry Hugman's Footballers. Retrieved 17 September 2018.
  2. 1 2 3 "Bill Cassidy". NASLJerseys.com. Dave Morrison. Retrieved 17 September 2018.
  3. 1 2 "Bill Cassidy". UK A–Z Transfers. Neil Brown. Retrieved 17 September 2018.
  4. ↑ "Player search". English National Player Archive. Retrieved 17 September 2018.
  5. ↑ McAllister, Bill (18 December 1976). "Bill's boys put Brora into the big-time". Aberdeen Evening Express. p. 20.
  6. ↑ Black, Hamish (30 June 1979). "Midsummer madness hits North soccer". Aberdeen Evening Express. p. 8.
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