Peter Nellies
Appearance
![]() Nellies playing for Hearts in 1912 | |||
Personal information | |||
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Date of birth | 24 April 1886 | ||
Place of birth | Kingseat, Scotland | ||
Date of death | 15 July 1930 | (aged 44)||
Place of death | Glasgow, Scotland[1] | ||
Height | 5 ft 7 in (1.70 m) | ||
Position(s) | |||
Senior career* | |||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
– | Douglas Water Thistle | ||
1908–1921 | Heart of Midlothian | 339 | (11) |
1921–1922 | King's Park | 17 | (0) |
1922–1923 | Berwick Rangers | ||
1923–1924 | Carlisle United | ||
International career | |||
1911–1919 | Scottish League XI | 9 | (1) |
1913–1914 | Scotland | 2 | (0) |
1915–1917 | Scottish League (wartime) | 4 | (0) |
1918 | Scotland (wartime) | 1 | (0) |
Managerial career | |||
1922–1923 | Berwick Rangers | ||
*Club domestic league appearances and goals |
Peter Nellies (24 April 1886 – 15 July 1930) was a Scottish footballer,[1] who played for Heart of Midlothian (where he played before, during and after World War I while also working in a reserved occupation as a coal miner during the conflict, and is ranked 8th on the club's all-time appearances list in the Scottish Football League), King's Park and Carlisle United.
He gained two caps for the Scotland national team (one as captain)[2] and was selected nine times for the Scottish League XI, and was also manager of Berwick Rangers.[2]
Nellies's sister married footballer Willie Cringan;[3] the brothers-in-law played together once for the Scottish League XI in 1919.[4]
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ a b The Hawthorns Series, Scottish Sport History, October 2014
- ^ a b (Smith 2013, p. 229)
- ^ Statutory registers - Marriages - Search results, ScotlandsPeople
- ^ Association Football | The Inter-League Game, The Glasgow Herald, 24 February 1919
- Sources
- Smith, Paul (2013). Scotland Who's Who. Pitch Publishing. ISBN 9781909178847.
External links
[edit]Categories:
- 1886 births
- 1930 deaths
- Scottish men's footballers
- Scotland men's international footballers
- Heart of Midlothian F.C. players
- King's Park F.C. players
- Scottish Football League players
- Scottish Football League representative players
- Scottish football managers
- Berwick Rangers F.C. managers
- Men's association football fullbacks
- Men's association football wing halves
- Scotland men's wartime international footballers
- Scotland men's junior international footballers
- Douglas Water Thistle F.C. players
- Scottish Junior Football Association players
- Road incident deaths in Scotland
- Men's association football player-managers
- Carlisle United F.C. players
- Scottish miners
- Scottish football defender, 1880s birth stubs