Billy Buchanan

William Mack Buchanan (29 July 1924 – 14 June 1999) was a Scottish professional footballer who played as a full back in the Football League for Carlisle United and Barrow.[1]

Billy Buchanan
Personal information
Full name William Mack Buchanan[1]
Date of birth (1924-07-29)29 July 1924[1]
Place of birth Tannochside,[1] Scotland
Date of death 14 June 1999(1999-06-14) (aged 74)[1]
Place of death Carlisle,[1] England
Position(s) Full back
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1942–1944 Larkhall Thistle
1944–1949 Motherwell 0 (0)
1949 Carlisle United 9 (0)
1949–1956 Barrow 242 (0)
1956–19?? Morecambe
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only

Buchanan was born in Tannochside, Lanarkshire.[1] He played football for junior club Larkhall Thistle during the Second World War before joining Motherwell in 1944, but his only first-team appearance was in the 1946–47 Scottish League Cup, and he left for England in 1949.[2] He signed for Carlisle United and played in the first nine league matches of the season before moving on again, together with Billy Gordon and a "substantial" fee, to another Third Division North club, Barrow, in exchange for Alex McIntosh.[3] Buchanan settled at Barrow, and over the next six-and-a-half seasons he made 242 league appearances,[1] after which he played for Lancashire Combination club Morecambe.[4]

Buchanan died in Carlisle, Cumbria, in 1999 at the age of 74.[1]

References
  1. "Billy Buchanan". Barry Hugman's Footballers. Retrieved 19 June 2019.
  2. A Record of Post-war Scottish League Players 1946/47 to 2017/18. 7. John Litster and Scottish Football Historian magazine. 2018.
  3. "Alex McIntosh". Evening Telegraph and Post. Dundee. 30 September 1949. p. 12.
  4. "Morecambe new men bring confidence". Lancashire Evening Post. 14 August 1956. p. 6.


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