Willie Lyon

Willie Lyon
Personal information
Full name William King Lyon[1]
Date of birth 7 March 1912
Place of birth Birkenhead, England
Date of death 5 December 1962(1962-12-05) (aged 50)
Place of death Salford, England
Playing position Centre-half
Youth career
Kirkintilloch Rob Roy[1]
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1933–1935 Queens Park
1935–1940 Celtic 146[2] (16)
1941–1942 → Aberdeen (guest)
National team
1938 Scottish League XI[3] 2 (0)
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only

William King Lyon (7 March 1912 – 5 December 1962) was a professional footballer, who played for Queens Park and Celtic.

Career

Lyon was a centre-half and was made captain of Celtic.[1] He won the Scottish league championship in 1936 and 1938, the Scottish Cup in 1937[4] and the Empire Exhibition Trophy in 1938.[5]

He was never selected for the full Scotland international team, but was a member of a SFA Touring XI squad which visited Canada and the USA in 1939.[6] He had also played twice for the Scottish League XI in 1938.

He served in the Scots Guards during World War II, rising to the rank of major and sustaining a leg injury in 1944 which ended his football career. He was awarded the Military Cross.[1]

His younger brother Tom was also a footballer;[7] the pair were briefly teammates at Celtic when Tom joined as a guest player during the war.[8]

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 Rafters, Frank (2013). Standing On The Shoulders Of Giants. Grosvenor House Publishing. ISBN 9781781482247.
  2. ↑ "Celtic player William Lyon profile". Fitbastats. Retrieved 2 October 2017.
  3. ↑ http://www.londonhearts.com/SFL/players/willielyon.html
  4. ↑ , Willie Lyon - The Celtic Wiki
  5. ↑ "Empire Exhibition Trophy". Archived from the original on September 21, 2012. Retrieved 1 October 2017.
  6. ↑ "British FA XI Tours". RSSSF. 25 August 2016. Retrieved 2 October 2017.
  7. ↑ "Lyon, Thomas". The Celtic Wiki. Retrieved 29 June 2016.
  8. ↑ "Celtic player Thomas Lyon profile". Fitbastats. Retrieved 2 October 2017.
Preceded by
Bobby Hogg		 Celtic F.C. captain
1935-1940		 Succeeded by
Official football suspended for WW2
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