Hugh McNeil Jr

Hugh McNeil
Personal information
Date of birth (1902-08-08)8 August 1902
Place of birth Motherwell, Scotland
Positions
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
– Larkhall Thistle
1923–1926 Hamilton Academical 70 (0)
1926–1930 Motherwell 85 (1)
Total 154 (1)
* Club domestic league appearances and goals

Hugh McNeil (born 1902) was a Scottish footballer who played as a centre half or right half for Hamilton Academical and Motherwell. He was still featuring fairly regularly for the Steelmen (11 league appearances in the 1929–30 season) when he emigrated to Nigeria to work in the oil industry, having obtained a university degree.

His father of the same name was also a footballer who too played for Motherwell and Hamilton in the same position.

References

  1. 1 2 McNeil, Hugh (1923), Hamilton Academical Memory Bank
  2. ↑ Hugh McNeil (II), MotherWELLnet
  3. 1 2 John Litster (October 2012). "A Record of pre-war Scottish League Players". Scottish Football Historian magazine.
  4. ↑ McNeil, Hugh (1901), Hamilton Academical Memory Bank
  5. ↑ Hugh McNeil (I), MotherWELLnet