Sam Anderson (footballer)

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Sam Anderson
Personal information
Full name Samuel Anderson
Position(s) Inside left
Senior career*
YearsTeamApps(Gls)
Shettleston
1912–1913 Hamilton Academical 31 (3)
1913–1914 South Shields
1914–1919 Bradford City 14 (3)
1916Bathgate (loan)
1916–1918Airdrieonians (loan)  57 (11)
1918–1919Hamilton Academical (loan)  23 (4)
1919–1924 Third Lanark  57 (5)
1922–1923St Bernard's (loan)  32 (8)
1923–1924Nithsdale Wanderers (loan)  22 (3)
1924–1925 Nithsdale Wanderers  5 (2)
Total241(39)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Samuel Anderson was a Scottish professional footballer who played as an inside left. [1] [2]

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Career

Anderson played for Hamilton Academical, Bradford City and Third Lanark. [3] For Bradford City, he made 14 appearances in the Football League and two in the FA Cup. [4] World War I then intervened, and Anderson was loaned back to Scottish clubs, spending two seasons with Airdrieonians and one back at Hamilton. After the conflict he returned home on a permanent basis with Third Lanark, later going out on loan again, this time to lower division teams as his career wound down.

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References

  1. John Litster (October 2012). "A Record of pre-war Scottish League Players". Scottish Football Historian magazine.{{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  2. Anderson, Samuel (1912), Hamilton Academical Memory Bank
  3. Frost, p. 391
  4. Frost, p. 379