William Cringan
Template:Short description Template:Use British English Template:Use dmy dates Template:Infobox football biography William Cringan (21 April 1890 – 12 May 1958) was a Scottish footballer who played for Sunderland, Ayr United, Celtic, Third Lanark and Motherwell, and for the Scotland national team.
Career
Club
Cringan, a centre half, started his senior career when he joined Sunderland from Douglas Water Thistle in 1910.[1][2] After five and a half seasons on Wearside, and with English football suspended during World War I, he returned to Scotland with Ayr United on a temporary transfer in January 1916. In the summer of 1917 he left the Black Cats to join Ayr on a permanent basis,[3] signing for Celtic in a £600 transfer deal a few months after that.[1]
Cringan was appointed Celtic captain soon after his arrival, a position he held until his departure.[4] During this time the club won the 1918–19 and 1921–22 Scottish League titles[5] and the Scottish Cup in 1923. He eventually left the Parkhead club in October 1923 when he joined Third Lanark. A year later he moved to Motherwell, where he moved away from top-level football following the 1924–25 season, with short spells outside the league with Inverness Thistle and Bathgate before retiring altogether.[3]
International
Cringan was first selected for the Scottish national side on 26 February 1920, captaining the side in a 1–1 draw against Wales. He was not selected again until 1923 but would eventually win a total of five international caps, three as captain.[6] Cringan also featured in four matches for a Scottish Football League select side.[7]
Personal life
Cringan's brother Jimmy was also a professional footballer, who played for twelve seasons with Birmingham between 1922 and 1934.[1] Another brother Robert played for Ayr United.[8]
Cringan married the sister of footballer Peter Nellies;[9] the brothers-in-law played together once for the Scottish League XI in 1919.[10]
Honours
- Sunderland
- Football League champions: 1912–13
- Celtic[4]
- Scottish League: 1918–19, 1921–22
- Scottish Cup: 1922–23
- Glasgow Cup: 1919–20, 1920–21
See also
- List of Scotland national football team captains
- List of Scotland wartime international footballers
- List of Scottish football families
References
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- ↑ Brown, Alan. Scotland – Championship Winning Teams 1900–1920, Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation. Retrieved 22 June 2007
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- ↑ Cringan, Robert (1918), Hamilton Academical Memory Bank
- ↑ Statutory registers – Marriages – Search results, ScotlandsPeople
- ↑ Association Football | The Inter-League Game, The Glasgow Herald, 24 February 1919
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External links
- Scotland Appearances at londonhearts.com
- Image at TheCelticWiki
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- Scottish men's footballers
- 1890 births
- 1958 deaths
- Footballers from East Ayrshire
- Celtic F.C. players
- Sunderland A.F.C. players
- Douglas Water Thistle F.C. players
- Ayr United F.C. players
- Third Lanark A.C. players
- Motherwell F.C. players
- Inverness Thistle F.C. players
- Bathgate F.C. players
- Scotland men's international footballers
- Scotland men's wartime international footballers
- Scottish Football League players
- English Football League players
- Highland Football League players
- Scottish Junior Football Association players
- Scottish Football League representative players
- Men's association football central defenders
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