01/01/2000


Allan McGraw

Full Name: Allan McGraw
Age: 70 (29.07.1939)
Position: Centre Forward; Central Defender
Born: Govan, Scotland
Nationality: Scottish
Height: ?
Transfer Fee: Free - British Army Football Team
Date Signed: _._.1961
Date Left: _._.1966
Transfer Out: £15,000 - Hibernian
Former Clubs: Renfrew Juniors, Morton, Hibernian, Linfield (Northern Ireland), Johnstone Burgh
Non Playing Career: Johnstone Burgh (player/coach), Pollok (coach), Morton (1974-1985: reserve team coach; 1985-1997: manager; 1997: director of football)
Current Club/Employment: Retired
Honours with Morton (player): Old 2nd Division winner - 1963/64, League Cup runner-up - 1963/64
Honours with Morton (manager): Reserve League winners -1978, 1st Division winners -1986/87, B & Q Cup runners-up - 1992/93, 2nd Division winners - 1994/95
Personal Honours:
Miscellaneous: In season 1963/64 Allan scored a record 58 goals in 48 appearances.

Allan has chapters dedicated to him in Vincent Gillen's Greenock Morton 1874-1999 and Graeme Ross' Morton Greats.

In March 2005, he finished second in a poll to decide Morton's all-time cult hero by viewers of the BBC's Football Focus.

Morton career - starts, sub appearances, goals:

1961/62:
Old Div 2: ? Lge Cup: ? Scot C: ? All Together: 16, 0, 14
1962/63:
Old Div 2: ? Lge Cup: ? Scot C: ? All Together: 43, 0, 36
1963/64:
Old Div 2: ? Lge Cup: ? Scot C: ? All Together: 48, 0, 58
1964/65:
Old Div 1: ? Lge Cup: ? Scot C: ? All Together: 33, 0, 21
1965/66:
Old Div 1: ? Lge Cup: ? Scot C: ? All Together: 36, 0, 11

Totals:
League: ? Lge Cup: ? Scot C: ?

Overall: 176 Starts, 0 Sub App, 140 Goals

These stats are taken from Graeme Ross' Morton Greats. Neil Brown's online database has it as 136 games, 117 goals - however, Brown's site only lists statistics for league matches.


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Links

Wikipedia profile: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allan_McGraw

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