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PSNI FC Name: David McCoy Born: Height: Weight: Position: Right-Half Representative Honours: Northern Ireland: 2 Amateur Caps (1971). Club Career: Ards Amateur Biography: To follow. PSNI Northern Ireland Amateur Cap Details: 19-02-1971 Scotland H D 1-1 17-04-1971 Wales... A L 0-1 Summary: 2/0. Won 0, Drew 1, Lost 1.

PSNI FC Name: Robert Boyd Johnstone Born: Height: Weight: Position: Inside-Right Representative Honours: Ireland: 2 Amateur Cap Details (1938-1939) Club Career: Cliftonville Amateur Biography: To follow. PSNI Ireland Amateur Cap Details: 13-04-1938 Scotland H W 2-1 19-04-1939 Scotland A D 1-1 Summary: 2/0. Won 1, Drew 1, Lost 0.

Name: Ivan McAllister Born: Dunmurry Died: July 2024, Belfast (age 80) Height: Weight: Position: Centre-Half Representative Honours: Northern Ireland: 5 Amateur Caps Club Honours: (with Linfield) Irish League Champion; Irish Cup Runner-Up 1972/73 ;  ... Club Career: Teams .. --Seasons-- Signed -Fee- League FA Cup Europe Bangor Linfield ............  -1970 Amat. R.U.C. Biography: To follow. Linfield FC PSNI Linfield FC Northern Ireland Amateur Cap Details: 15-04-1972 Wales... A W 3-0 28-04-1972 Scotland A W 1-0 15-05-1972 England. A W 2-1 07-04-1973 Wales... A D 1-1 12-10-1973 England. A L 0-2 Summary: 5/0. Won 3, Drew 1, Lost 1.

PSNI FC Name: William Lyness Born: Height: Weight: Position: Centre-Forward Representative Honours: Ireland:   1 Amateur Cap (1929) . Club Career: Newry Town Amateur Biography: To follow. PSNI Ireland Amateur Cap Details: 10-11-1928 England H L 0-2 Summary: 1/0. Won 0, Drew 0, Lost 1.

PSNI FC Name: David Cloughley Born: Portadown Height: Weight: Position: Centre-Half Representative Honours: Northern Ireland: 7 Amateur Caps (1965-1967) , Youth, Schoolboy. Club Honours: Club Career: Teams Seasons Signed Fee League FA Cup Other Portadown - - - - - - R.U.C. - - - - - - Glentoran - - - 0/ 0 - - Ballymena United 63/64-66/67 - - *182/15 - - Glenavon - -67 - - - - TOTALS - £- - - - * all games. Biography: A policeman by day, David Cloughley captained Ireland Amateurs on several occasions. More to follow. Northern Ireland Amateur Cap Details: 03-04-1965 Scotland H D 1-1 25-09-1965 England. H L 0-2 15-01-1966 Wales... H D 0-0 12-03-1966 Scotland A W 3-2 14-01-1967 Wales... A D 3-3 1 goal ...

PSNI FC Name: Peter O'Kane Born: Height: Weight: Position: Goalkeeper Representative Honours: Northern Ireland: 2 Amateur Caps (1966). Club Honours: Club Career: Teams Seasons Signed Fee League FA Cup Other Glentoran Olympic - -59 Amateur - - - RUC - - Amateur - - - Ardoyne Celtic - - Amateur - - - Crusaders - Aug-64 Amateur - - - TOTALS - £- - - - Biography: A Gaelic footballer in his youth, Peter O'Kane joined Glentoran Olympic in 1959 then had spells with the R.U.C. and Ardoyne Celtic in summer football. He joined Crusaders in 1964 and won two Ireland Amateur caps in 1966. Northern Ireland Amateur Cap Details:...

Name: Robert M. Skelton Born: Height: Weight: Position: Right-Back Representative Honours: Ireland: 6 Amateur Caps (1930-1933). Club Career: Teams Seasons Signed Fee League FA . Cup Other Cliftonville - - Amateur 0/0 - - Queen's . Island . Olympic 28/29 - Amateur - - - Cliftonville - - Amateur - - - TOTALS - £- - - - Biography: A right-back who initially had to leave Cliftonville to seek firstteam football, Robert Skelton joined Queen's Island Olympic for the 1928/29 season without playing a game for the Reds . He returned to Solitude for the following season, but his progress was hampered by illness. Once established in the Cliftonville firstteam, Skelton proved his worth and was quickly recognised as a "certainty" in the Ireland Amateur team. Unlike Ireland's seni...

PSNI FC Name: Joseph Patrick Meldrum Born: c.1936 Height: Weight: Position: Centre-Forward Representative Honours: Northern Ireland: 5 Amateur Caps / 1 Goal (1960-1962) ; Irish League: 4 Caps (1961-1963). Club Honours: (with Distillery) Irish League Champion 1962/63 ; Irish Cup Runner-Up 1962/ 63; City Cup Winner 1962/63 ; (with Crusaders) Irish Cup Winner 1966/67, 1967/68 ; Co. Antrim Shield Winner 1968/69. Club Career: Teams Seasons Signed Fee League FA . Cup Europe Other Distillery 59/60 - 64/65 - Amateur *195/172 - 2/0 - R.U.C. - - - - - - - Crusaders - c/s-66 - - - 4/0 - TOTALS - £- - - 6/0 - Biography: To follow. PSNI Site Joe Meldrum slots home Crusaders 2nd goal as they defeat Linfield 2-0 in the 1968 Irish Cup Final at The Oval (courtesy of Chri...

PSNI FC Name: John Dunlop Born: c.1924, Belfast Died: 2005/06 Height: Weight: Position: Right-Back Representative Honours: Northern Ireland: 2 Amateur Caps (1950-1951 ), Junior, 3 Schoolboy Caps (1938) ; Irish League; British Police. Club Honours: Club Career: Teams Seasons Signed Fee League FA Cup Other Glentoran - -39 Amateur - - - Ards - -42 Amateur - - - Bangor - - Amateur - - - Glenavon - -45 Amateur - - - Coleraine - -45 Amateur - - - Crusaders - -46 Amateur - - - Bangor - - Amateur - - - Glentoran - -49 Amateur - - - Distillery - - Amateur - - - R.U.C. 1950 - 1960 -50 ...

Name: Maurice Archibald Pyper Born: 4 September 1904, Limavady Died: 1 March 1990, Belfast Position: Centre-Half Representative Honours: Ireland: 1 Full Cap (1931) ; Irish League: 1 Cap (1927) . Club Honours: (with Linfield) Irish League Champion; Irish Cup Winner 1930/31 , Runner-Up 1931/32 . Club Career: Teams Seasons Signed Fee League FA Cup Other R.U.C. - - - - - - Barn - - - - - - Linfield - 1923 - - - - TOTALS - £- - - - Biography: A member during the earliest days of the RUC Athletic Association, Maurice Pyper represented the Police at hockey and golf, as well as football. At the time the RUC football team limited itself to inter-Police Force matches, the Intermediate Cup and the Steel & Sons Cup. It was not until 1956 that RUC FC was officially formed and became members of ...