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Name: Joseph Patton Douglas Born: Belfast Died: May 1997 Height: Weight: Position: Wing-Half Representative Honours: Ireland: 1 Full Cap (1946) . Club Honours: (with Linfield Swifts) Steel & Sons Cup Winner 1939/40 ; (with Belfast Celtic) Irish League Champion; Irish Cup Winner 1942/43 ; City Cup Winner; Gold Cup Winner; Co. Antrim Shield Winner 1942/43, 1944/45 ; (with Ballymena) Irish Cup Runner-Up 1950/51 ; Co. Antrim Shield Winner 1950/51. Club Career: Teams Seasons Signed Fee League FA . Cup Other Linfield 39/40 - 40/41 - - - - - Drumcondra 41/42 - - ??/ 2 - - Belfast Celtic 42/43 - 48/49 - - - - - Ballymena . United 49/50 - 51/52 c/s-49 - *99/13 - - TOTALS - - - - - * all games Biography: Brought up in the Village area of Belfast, Jo...

Name: William Thomas Millar Born: 25 October 1906, Ballymena Died: December 1986, San Diego (USA) Height: 5.09 ft Weight: 11.10 st Position: Inside/Centre-Forward Representative Honours: Ireland: 2 Full Caps/1 Goal (1931-1932) . Club Career: Teams Seasons Signed Fee League FA Cup Other South End Rangers - - (Intermediate League) Linfield - May-26 - - - - Liverpool 28/29 Aug-28 £1,500 3/ 2 - - Barrow 29/30-32/33 Jan-30 £300 103/66 1/2 - Newport County 33/34 Jun-33 Free 7/ 1 - 2/1 Carlisle United 34/35 Jul-34 Free 33/ 9 - 1/ 2 Dalbeattie Star - c/s-35 - - - - Ballymena 35/36 Dec-35 - 4/ 1 - - Sligo Rovers - Aug-36 Free ...

You have to feel for a player who scored in a win over England and earned just three caps. The reason for Tucker Croft’s all-too-brief international career seems to have been his pioneering move to American Soccer…   Name: Thomas Croft Born: 8 April 1897, Belfast Died: 16 December 1952, Belfast Position: Inside-Right Representative Honours: Ireland: 3 Full Caps / 1 Goal (1922-1924) ; Irish League: 4 Caps (1922-1924) . Club Honours: (with Queen’s Island) Irish League Champion 1923/24 , Runner-Up 1922/23, 1924/25 ; Irish Cup Winner 1923/24 ; Co. Antrim Shield Winner 1923/24 ; City Cup Winner 1922/23, 1923/24 , Runner-Up 1929/30 ; IFA Intermediate Cup Winner 1920/21 ;  (with Glentoran ) Charity Cup Runner-Up 1918/19 ; (with Fall River) American Soccer League Champion 1924/25, 1925/26 ;   Lewis Cup Runner-Up 1925. Club Career: Teams Seasons Signed Fee League FA Cup Others Dundela 13/14 - Amateur - ...

Eddie Carroll was one of many centre-forwards tried out by the Irish FA’s selection committee in the search for goals. He was given one chance only, failing to make an impact in a 3-0 defeat by Scotland... Name: Edward Carroll Born: 20 August 1901, Bessbrook Died: 1975 Height:  Weight:  Position: Centre-Forward Representative Honours: Northern Ireland: 1 Full Cap (1925) ; League of Ireland: 2 Caps/2 Goals (1928-1929) . Club Honours: (with Dundalk) Irish Free State League Champion 1932/33 ; (with Dolphin) Irish Free State League Champion 1934/35 . Club Career: Teams Seasons Signed Fee League FA Cup Other Bessbrook Athletic - - - - - Newry Town - - - - - - Glenavon 21/22-24/25 - - - - - Newry Town 23/24 - Loan - - - Aberdeen 25/26-26/27 c/s-25 - 5/ ...