Peter Warren

Name:	Peter Warren
Born:	1885, Dublin
Died:	c.1961, Dublin
Position:	Left-Back
Representative Honours:	Ireland: 2 Caps (1913)

Club Career:

Clubs	Seasons	Signed	Fee	League	FA.Cup	Other
Strandville (Dublin)	-	-	-	-	-	-
Belfast Celtic	-	Aug-08	-	-	-	-
Sheffield.Wednesday	09/10-11/12	Apr-10	£50	6/0	-	-
Shelbourne	-	May-12	-	-	-	-
Millwall	-	May-13	-	(Southern League)
Shelbourne	-	c/s-14	-	-	-	-
TOTALS			£50	6/0	-	-

Biography:

A “strong-kicking” left-back, Peter "Weezer" Warren made his name with Belfast Celtic before transferring to Sheffield Wednesday along with Paddy O’Connell for a combined fee of £50 in 1909.

Warren never really adapted to life in the Football League and played just six times for the Owls before returning to his home-city of Dublin to join Shelbourne. While with the Shels he was capped twice, as stand-in for Alex Craig during the 1912 Home Nations tournament. He later returned to England to play with Millwall.

Ireland Full Cap Details:

1	15-02-1913	England	H	W	2-1	BC
2	15-03-1913	Scotland	H	L	1-2	BC

Summary: 2/0. Won 1, Drew 0, Lost 1.

Additional details courtesy of Martin O'Connor.

James Williams

Name: James Richard Williams
Position: Forward

Representative Honours: Ireland: 2 Full Caps / 1 Goal (1886).
Club Honours: (with Ulster) Irish Cup Runner-Up 1882/83.

Club Career:
Ulster

Biography:
To follow.

Ireland Cap Details:
27-02-1886 Wales... A L 0-5 BC
13-03-1886 England. H L 1-6 BC 1 Goal

Summary: 2/1. Won 0, Drew 0, Lost 2.

Edward Whitfield

Name: Edward Riddlesdale Whitfield
Position: Left-Back

Representative Honours: Ireland: 1 Full Cap (1886).

Club Career:
Dublin University

Biography:
To follow.

Ireland Cap Details:
27-02-1886 Wales... A L 0-5 BC

Summary: 1/0. Won 0, Drew 0, Lost 1.

James Williamson

Name: James Porter Williamson
Born: 8 December 1869, Armagh
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Position: Right-Half/Centre-Forward

Representative Honours: Ireland: 3 Full Caps / 1 Goal (1890-1893); Irish League: 1 Cap /1 Goal (1893).
Club Honours: (with Cliftonville) Irish Cup Winner 1887/88, Runner-Up 1889/90, 1892/93; Co. Antrim Shield Winner; Belfast Charity Cup Winner.

Club Career:

Teams	Seasons	Signed	Fee	League	FA.Cup	Other
Cliftonville	-	-	Amateur	-	-	-
TOTALS	-	£0		-	-	-

Biography:
Inititially a half-back, it was in that role that James Williamson played in Cliftonville's 1888 Irish Cup Final win over Distillery and won the first of his three caps for Ireland.

Later Williamson converted to centre-forward, scoring for Ireland as they ran Scotland close in a 3-2 defeat in 1892. The match-up between the "Shamrock and Thistle" at Cliftonville saw Williamson replace John Peden, who had been injured facing England two weeks earlier. When Dalton centred for Williamson to score from an "oblique angle" just prior to half-time, the Irish were already two goals down.

The Scots made it 3-1 mid-way through the second half in controversial circumstances, the ball entering the net despite seemingly going over the bar. Outraged, the Irish mounted a "fierce and continual fusillade on the Scottish citadel" through to the final whistle, with a single late strike by George Gaffikin proving scant reward.

Come the spring of 1893 Williamson played two more representative matches against Scotland. The International Championship match at Parkhead proved a disappointing occasion as the Scots cruised to an easy 6-1 win. An inter-league clash between the two countries, the Irish League's first representative match, proved much happier. The Irish won 3-0 at Ulsterville, with Williamson again among the scorers.

1893 also saw Williamson appear in his third Irish Cup Final for Cliftonville. The opposition were Linfield, who were 5-0 up by half-time, though by way of consolation Williamson scored the only goal of the second half.

Ireland Cap Details:
15-03-1890 England. H L 1-9 BC
18-03-1892 Scotland H L 2-3 BC 1 Goal
25-03-1893 Scotland A L 1-6 BC

Summary: 3/1. Won 0, Drew 0, Lost 3.

With thanks to Chris Goodwin of England Football Online for Williamson's birth details.

George Willis

Name: George Vicassy Wigram Willis
Born: 7 March 1885, Belfast
Died: 20 March 1925
Position: Right-Back

Representative Honours: Ireland: 4 Full Caps (1906-1912); Irish League: 5 Caps (1906-1911).
Club Honours: (with Linfield) Irish League Champion.

Club Career:
Linfield

Biography:
A multi-honoured full-back with Linfield represented Ireland four times and the Irish League five.

In 1907, when Ireland faced Scotland at Parkhead, he went into goals for the last fifteen minutes when Billy Scott was injured. Already 2-0 down, despite the Scots losing a man themselves after fifteen minutes, the game finisheed 3-0.

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Ireland Cap Details:
17-03-1906 Scotland H L 0-1 BC
02-04-1906 Wales... A D 4-4 BC
16-03-1907 Scotland A L 0-3 BC
16-03-1912 Scotland H L 1-4 BC

Summary: 4/0. Won 0, Drew 1, Lost 3.

Bob Wilson

Name: Robert Wilson
Born: c.1867
Position: Right-Back

Representative Honours: Ireland: 1 Full Cap (1888).
Club Honours: (with Distillery) Irish Cup Winner 1883/84, 1884/85, 1885/86; (with Cliftonville) Irish Cup Winner 1887/88.

Club Career:
Teams....... --Seasons-- Signed Competitive Friendly
Distillery.. 83/84-86/87 ..1883 .. 22/??.... 56/??
Cliftonville ............. 1887

Biography:
Son of Matt “Daddy” Wilson, Bob Wilson broke into the Distillery first eleven as a seventeen year-old, making his debut in November 1883. He usually played at left-back, with his father on the right, and claimed a hat-trick of Irish Cups from 1884 to 1886.

Bob Wilson joined Cliftonville for the 1887/88 season, bringing with him his excellent Cup pedigree. In March 1888 he lined up for his new club against his old-teammates in the Irish Cup Final at the Ulster Grounds, Ballynafeigh, Wilson’s Cliftonville won 2-1 and a week later he was selected at right-back for Ireland’s match against Scotland. The Scots ran out 10-2 winners at Solitude.

Ireland Cap Details:
24-03-1888 Scotland H L 2-10 BC

Summary: 1/0. Won 0, Drew 0, Lost 1.

Jimmy Watson

Name: James Watson

Position: Full-Back

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Representative Honours: Ireland: 9 Full Caps (1883-1889).

Club Honours: (with Ulster) Irish Cup Winner 1886/87, Runner-Up 1882/83.

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Club Career:

Ulster

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Biography:

Jimmy Watson was a stalwart full-back in some of Ireland's earliest forays into international football. He captained the Irish in their 5-0 defeat by Wales in Wrexham in 1886 and was part of the team that claimed its first ever international victory against the same opposition a year later.

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At club level, with Ulster, Watson played in two Irish Cup Finals, both against Cliftonville, a 5-0 defeat in 1883 and a 3-1 win in 1887.

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Ireland Cap Details:

24-02-1883 England. A L 0-7 FR

17-03-1883 Wales... H D 1-1 FR

27-02-1886 Wales... A L 0-5 BC

13-03-1886 England. H L 1-6 BC

20-03-1886 Scotland H L 2-7 BC

18-02-1887 Scotland A L 1-4 BC

12-03-1887 Wales... H W 4-1 BC

02-03-1889 England. A L 1-6 BC

27-04-1889 Wales... H L 1-3 BC

Summary: 9/0. Won 1, Drew 1, Lost 7.

Tom Waddell

Name: Dr. Thomas Mayne Reid Waddell
Born: c.1882
Died: 19 May 1926, Glossop (England)
Position: Centre-Forward

Representative Honours: Ireland: 1 Full Cap (1906).

Club Career:

Clubs	Seasons	Signed	Fee	League	FA Cup	Other
Cliftonville	-	-	Amateur	-	-	-
Glossop	06/07	Feb-07	-	-	-	-
Cliftonville	07/08	Jun-07	Amateur	-	-	-
Glossop	07/08	Dec-07	-	* 7/1	-	-
TOTALS			£-	7/1	-	-

* both spells

Biography:
A "very dangerous" centre-forward with Cliftonville, where he was also captain from 1904 to 1906, Tom Waddell won his only cap against Scotland in 1906.

1906 also saw Waddell gain his degree and license as a physician. He soon moved to Glossop, England, where he practiced as a surgeon and also played football for the local Second Division club. In 1926 he contracted an infection while operating on a child and died at the local Haydock Hospital. He was 44 years-old.

Ireland Cap Details:
17-03-1906 Scotland H L 0-1 BC

Summary: 1/0. Won 0, Drew 0, Lost 1.

Dave Waterman

Name: David Graham Waterman
Born: 16 May 1977, Guernsey
Height: 5.10 ft
Weight: 12.00 st
Position: Defender

Representative Honours: Northern Ireland: 14 Under-21 Caps (1998-1999).

Club Career:
Clubs........ --Seasons-- Signed --Fee-- -League- FA Cup FL Cup Other
Portsmouth... 96/97-01/02 Jul-95 Trainee 60(20)/0 3(0)/0 4(1)/0
Oxford United 01/02-03/04 Mar-02 ...Free 37(10)/1 4(0)/0 ...... 2(0)/1
Weymouth (Conference South)

Biography:
To follow.

Jack Waring

Name: R. John Waring
Position: Centre-Forward

Representative Honours: Ireland: 1 Full Cap (1899).
Club Honours: (with Distillery) Irish League Champion 1898/99.

Club Career:

Clubs	Seasons	Signed	Fee	League	FA Cup	Other
Dunmurry	-	-	-	-	-	-
Distillery	97/98-98/99	c/s-1897	-	-	-	-
Hilden	-	c/s-1899	-	-	-	-
TOTALS		£-		-	-	-

Biography:
Scorer of 14 goals in Distillery’s 1898/99 Irish League Championship winning campaign, Jack Waring was rewarded for his form with an Ireland call-up. He was one of five Whites players to take to the field against England in February 1899, but it was an inauspicious day for the Irish, who finished on the end of an away record 13-2 defeat.

Waring had arrived at Distillery from Dunmurry in the summer of 1897, strengthening a forward line which had lost Giddy Baird, who had been killed in an accident on the Isle of Man, and the retiring Olphie Stanfield. Despite his first-class goalscoring return, Waring left Grosvenor for Lisburn club Hilden prior to the 1899/00 campaign.

Ireland Cap Details:
18-02-1899 England A L 2-13 BC

Summary: 1/0. Won 0, Drew 0, Lost 1.

Billy Wilson

Name: William James Randolph Wilson
Born: 23 September 1936, Portadown
Height: 5.10½ ft
Weight: 11.06 st
Position: Half-Back

Representative Honours: Northern Ireland: 1 B Cap (1957), Youth, Schoolboy.
Club Honours: (with Linfield) Irish League Champion; Irish Cup Winner 1959/60, 1961/62, Runner-Up 1960/61; Gold Cup Winner; Ulster Cup Winner; City Cup Winner; North-South Cup Winner 1961/62; Co. Antrim Shield Winner 1958/59, 1960/61, 1962/63.

Club Career:

Teams	Seasons	Signed	Fee	League	FA Cup	Europe	Other
Portadown	-	-52	Youth	-	-	-	-
Burnley	56/57-57/58	Sep-55	-	2/0	-	-	-
Linfield	58/59-63/64	Oct-58	-	-	-	4/0	-
Ballymena United	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
TOTALS	-	£-		-	-	-	-

Biography:
A schoolboy and youth international, Billy Wilson was spotted playing summer football before joining Portadown as an amateur. He had a brief Irish League career where he developed into a fine attacking wing-half, before joining the Ulster-contingent at Burnley. It was Clarets teammate Jimmy McIlroy that recommended Wilson to Peter Doherty for consideration for international selection, and he was duly included in the Northern Ireland ‘B’ eleven that faced Rumania in October 1957.

By the time of the 1958 World Cup in Sweden, Wilson had returned to Ireland, signing for Linfield. While he made the provisional World Cup squad, Wilson was never to win further representative recognition. He did however win a host of honours while a Linfield player, including playing a key role in the 1961/62 Seven Trophy team and featured in the club’s earliest European adventures.
Look At Linfield Interview
Article c.1992

Northern Ireland B Cap Details:
23-10-1957 Rumania H W 6-0 FR

Summary: 1/0. Won 1, Drew 0, Lost 0.