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Bob McIlvenny

Name: J. Robert McIlvenny Born: Died: Height: Weight: Position: Inside-Forward Representative Honours: Ireland: 2 Full Caps (1890-1891) . Club Honours: (with Distillery) Irish Cup Winner 1888/89 ; Co. Antrim Shield Winner 1888/89 ; (with Ulster) Irish Cup Runner-Up 1890/91 . Club Career: Teams Seasons Signed Fee League Irish Cup Other Genoa - - Amateur - - - Distillery 88/89-89/90 -1888 Amateur - - - Ulster 90/91-91/92 Aug-1890 - - - - Milltown - - - - - - Distillery 94/95 -1894 Amateur *17/13 - #23/13 TOTALS - £- - - - * all competitive games (both spells), # all friendlies (both spells) Biography: A product of Genoa, a junior club which became amalgamated with Distillery in 1887, Bob McIlvenny graduated to the ...

Tom McLean

Name: Thomas McLean Died: Born: Height: Position: Forward Representative Honours: Ireland: 1 Full Cap (1885) ; County Londonderry: 1 appearance (1889). Club Honours: (with Limavady) Irish Cup Runner-Up 1884/85, 1885/86 ; North West Cup Winner 1886/87, 1887/88 (also Cricket Cup winner). Clubs: Alexander/Limavady 1882/83-1888/89 Biography: Originally a cricketer with the Alexander Cricket Club, Tom McLean took to football with Alexander for the 1882/83 with some success. He played for Limavady in two Irish Cup Finals, 3-0 and 1-0 defeats by Distillery in 1885 and 1886. In total he scored thirteen Irish Cup goals, including a hattrick against Kilrea during the 1886/87 season. In 1885 McLean played for Ireland against Scotland in March 1885 in the same forward-line as Limavady teammate, Joe Sherrard. Having spent the first-half on the back-foot the Irish found themselves 4-0 down at the break. In the second-half however the Irish rallied and made two dents in the Hampden...

Fred McKee

Name: Frederick William McKee Born: 31 August 1883, Belfast Died: 19 October 1956 Height: Weight: Position: Goalkeeper Representative Honours: Ireland: 5 Full Caps (1906-1914) ; Irish League: 5 Caps (1906-1914) ; 5 Amateur Caps (1910-1921) . Club Honours: (with Cliftonville) Irish League Champion 1905/06, 1909/10 ; Cup Winner 1906/07, 1908/09 , Runner-Up 1909/10 ; Belfast Charity Cup Winner; (with Linfield) Irish Cup Winner 1914/15, 1915/16, 1918/19 , Runner-Up 1917/18 ; Co. Antrim Shield Winner 1916/17, 1922/23 ; Belfast & District (War-Time) League Champion 1915/16, 1917/18 . Club Career: Teams Seasons Signed Fee League FA Cup Others Cliftonville - - Amateur - - - Sunderland 07/08 - Amateur 0/0 - - Cliftonville - - Amateur - - - ...

John 'Jap' Walker

Name: Thomas Guyan Walker (registered name, never used) Born: 27 November 1885, Aberdeen (Scotland) Died: 1963, Belfast Position: Outside-Left Representative Honours: Ireland: 1 Full Cap (1911) . Club Honours: (with Belfast Celtic) Co. Antrim Shield Winner 1909/10 ; (with Glentoran) Irish League Champion 1912/13 . Club Career: Clubs Seasons Signed Fee League FA  Cup Other 19 th Old Boys 08/09 - - - - - Castlereagh - - - - - - Belfast Celtic 09/10 - - - - - Bury 09/10 - 11/12 Apr-10 - 18/0 - 1/0 Glentoran 12/13 c/s-12 - *23/5 - - Belfast . Celtic 13/14 - - - - - Belfast Utd 15/16 - - - - - Glentoran - ...