Billy Grassam

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Billy Grassam
Personnel
Surname William Grassam
birthday November 20, 1878 or 1880
place of birth Larbert ,  Scotland
date of death 1943
position Half-striker
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
1896-1897 Redcliffe Thistle
1897-1899 Maryhill
1899-1900 Burslem Port Vale 31 0(5)
1900-1903 West Ham United 78 (41)
1903 Celtic Glasgow 2 0(0)
1903-1905 Manchester United 29 (13)
1905 Leyton FC
1905-1909 West Ham United 91 (24)
1909-1911 Brentford FC
1 Only league games are given.

William "Billy" Grassam (born November 20, 1878 or 1880 in Larbert , Falkirk , † 1943 ) was a Scottish football player who played mainly in England during his career.

Career

Grassam was one of the outstanding players in Glasgow amateur football shortly before the turn of the century and came to a use for a selection team Glasgow against Lanarkshire as well as for a Scottish amateur selection against Ireland. About Redcliffe Thistle and Maryhill he came to the English professional club Burslem Port Vale in 1899 in the Football League Second Division . After one season he moved to the London club West Ham United , for which he played three seasons in the Southern Football League and was the team's top scorer in all three seasons. Here, the Scots get four hits and becoming the first hat-trick in the history of West Ham's already on his league debut on September 1, 1900 against Gravesend, in December 1900, he also became the first player of the club, the three hits in a game of the FA Cup scoring . In 1902 he took over the captaincy's armband after Roddy McEachrane had left Woolwich Arsenal .

In May 1903 Grassam returned briefly to Scotland and completed two league games for Celtic Glasgow , but already switched back to English football to Manchester United in September , with whom the striker narrowly missed promotion to the First Division twice as third in the table . In 1905 Grassam left Manchester and, after a brief stint at Leyton FC, played again at West Ham United at the end of 1905, without being able to match the hit rate of his first stay and was eventually ousted by the aspiring Danny Shea . On Boxing Day 1908 he played his last league game, in February 1909 he was in the FA Cup against Newcastle United for West Ham for the last time. He then let his career end at Brentford FC .

literature

  • Tony Hogg: Who's Who of West Ham United . Profile Sports Media, London 2005, ISBN 1-903135-50-8 , pp. 91 .
  • Eugene MacBride, Martin O'Connor, George Sheridan: An Alphabet of the Celts - A Complete Who's Who of Celtic FC ACL & Polar Publishing Ltd., Leicester 1994, ISBN 0-9514862-7-6 , pp. 170 .
  • Garth Dykes: The United Alphabet - A Complete Who's Who of Manchester United FC ACL & Polar Publishing Ltd., Leicester 1994, ISBN 0-9514862-6-8 , pp. 157 .

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Remarks

  1. ↑ Both dates are mentioned in printed works (MacBride et al. And Dykes 1878, Hogg 1880) and online publications
personal data
SURNAME Grassam, Billy
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Grassam, William
BRIEF DESCRIPTION scottish soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH November 20, 1878 or November 20, 1880
PLACE OF BIRTH Larbert , Scotland
DATE OF DEATH 1943