Billy Waugh

William Lindsay Waugh (27 November 1921 — 26 March 2009) was a Scottish footballer who played as a winger. He made a total of 230 appearances in the English Football League playing for Luton Town, Queens Park Rangers and Bournemouth & Boscombe Athletic.

Career

At the start of his career Waugh played in his native Scotland for the Edinburgh Juvenile club Meadowbank Thistle. In 1938 whilst only 16 years of age he was with Ratho Amateurs of the Lothian Amateur League. By March 1939 he had signed with Midlothian Junior League club Rosewell Rosedale and in the following August Waugh played in a trial with Scottish Football League club Heart of Midlothian. In 1940 he had moved to Midlothian Junior club Bathgate Thistle.

In August 1944 whilst with the Royal Air Force Waugh joined English club Luton Town: in 1945 the club played in the wartime Football League South before resuming their pre-war position in the Football League Second Division for the 1946–47 season. During his time with Luton he made 135 Football League appearances, scoring nine times. During his single season with the club he played in eighteen matches scoring three goals – the team finished tied in nineteenth place in the league table – and in May 1954 he was placed on the club's "available for transfer" list.

Waugh then moved to Non-League football signing for Chelmsford City of the Southern Football League. After less than a season there, in March 1955, he signed for Bedford Town also of the Southern league and remained with them until the end of the 1955–56 campaign. During the next season Waugh was with Kent League club Ashford Town before signing, in the summer of 1957, with March Town United of the Eastern Counties League.

Personal life

Whilst with the non-league clubs Waugh combined playing with a job as an insurance agent. He spent thirty years as general secretary for Electrolux Sports before retiring in 1986. Billy moved from Luton to Felixstowe before dying in 2009.