Red Ballantyne

Willie "Red" Ballantyne was a Scottish association football inside right who played in Scotland, the United States, and Canada.

Red Ballantyne
Personal information
Full name William Ballantyne
Place of birth Glasgow, Scotland
Position(s) Inside right
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
Morton
Clyde
1924–1925 Boston 35 (2)
1915–1927 Clyde
1927–1928 New Bedford Whalers
1928–1930 New York Giants 63 (23)
1930–1931 Brooklyn Wanderers
New York Americans
Kearny Scots-Americans
Newark Germans
Teams managed
Newark Germans
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only

Ballantyne played for both Morton and Clyde, before jumping to the Boston Soccer Club of the American Soccer League in 1924. He was back in Scotland with Clyde a year later. After two seasons with Clyde, Ballantyne returned to the United States to sign with the New Bedford Whalers.[1] In 1928, he began the season with the Whalers, but the onset of the soccer wars between the league and the United States Football Association brought considerable turmoil to the professional scene. The Whalers briefly left the ASL for the newly created outlaw league, the Eastern Soccer League. After a handful of games, it returned to the ASL. However, Ballantyne refused to make the move back to the ASL and joined the IINew York Giants in the ESL. This move occurred by December 1928, Ballantyne had moved to the .[2] He remained with the Giants after the ASL merged with the ESL in 1930. In the fall of 1930, Ballantyne joined the Brooklyn Wanderers. He then signed with the New York Americans and later played for Montréal Carsteel and then the Kearny Scots-Americans in the second ASL after the original league collapsed in 1933. He was with the Newark Germans in 1935 as a player-manager.[3]

  • Jose, Colin (1998). American Soccer League, 1921–1931 (Hardback). The Scarecrow Press. (ISBN 0-8108-3429-4).

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