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Willie Marshall (Scottish footballer)

Scottish footballer

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionDec 13, 2024
Entity authorityQ60885937 ↗
Source-derived summary

William Forsyth Marshall (9 May 1933 – December 2021) was a Scottish professional footballer who played as a centre forward.

Career

Born in Rutherglen, Marshall joined Bradford City from Rutherglen Glencairn in January 1957. He made 33 league appearances for the club, scoring 16 goals; he also played in 1 FA Cup match, scoring 3 goals. He left the club in February 1959 to join Swindon Town, for whom he made 30 league appearances (scoring 1 goal), as well as 1 League Cup game, before moving to Chesterfield.

Death

Marshall died in Derbyshire, England in December 2021, at the age of 88.

Sources

Frost, Terry (1988). Bradford City A Complete Record 1903-1988. Breedon Books Sport. ISBN 0-907969-38-0.

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Editorial reviewA productive starting point for separating a subject’s documented career from later reputation and commemoration. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1933, 2021, 1957, 1959—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, Willie, Marshall and Scottish is the immediate research focus.
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Biographical claims are most persuasive when dates, appointments and relationships can be traced to records created close to the events described. The source revision retrieved here is dated Dec 13, 2024. The linked authority identifier is Q60885937. The first chronological checks are 1933, 2021, 1957 and 1959.

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This entry incorporates text from “Willie Marshall (Scottish footballer)” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.