Personal information | |||
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Full name | William Mack Buchanan [1] | ||
Date of birth | [1] | 29 July 1924||
Place of birth | Tannochside, [1] Scotland | ||
Date of death | 14 June 1999[1] | (aged 74)||
Place of death | Carlisle, [1] England | ||
Position(s) | Full back | ||
Senior career* | |||
Years | Team | Apps | ( Gls) |
1942–1944 | Larkhall Thistle | ||
1944–1949 | Motherwell | 0 | (0) |
1949 | Carlisle United | 9 | (0) |
1949–1956 | Barrow | 242 | (0) |
1956–19?? | Morecambe | ||
*Club domestic league appearances and goals |
William Mack Buchanan (29 July 1924 – 14 June 1999) was a Scottish professional footballer who played as a full back in the Football League for Carlisle United and Barrow. [1]
Buchanan was born in Tannochside, Lanarkshire. [1] He played football for junior club Larkhall Thistle during the Second World War before joining Motherwell in 1944, but his only first-team appearance was in the 1946–47 Scottish League Cup, and he left for England in 1949. [2] He signed for Carlisle United and played in the first nine league matches of the season before moving on again, together with Billy Gordon and a "substantial" fee, to another Third Division North club, Barrow, in exchange for Alex McIntosh. [3] Buchanan settled at Barrow, and over the next six-and-a-half seasons he made 242 league appearances, [1] after which he played for Lancashire Combination club Morecambe. [4]
Buchanan died in Carlisle, Cumbria, in 1999 at the age of 74. [1]