Peter Shevlin (1902–1948) was a Scottish footballer who played as a goalkeeper.

Peter Shevlin
Personal information
Date of birth 18 November 1902[1]
Place of birth Hamilton, Scotland
Date of death 10 October 1948(1948-10-10) (aged 45)
Place of death Withington Community Hospital, England
Height 5 ft 7 in (1.70 m)[2]
Position(s) Goalkeeper
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
Pollok
St Roch's
1924–1927 Celtic 86 (0)
1927–1929 South Shields 66 (0)
1929–1931 Nelson 53 (0)
1931–1933 Shelbourne
1933–1935 Hamilton Academical 71 (0)
1934Celtic (loan) 0 (0)
1935–1936 Albion Rovers 16 (0)
Total 292 (0)
Managerial career
1931–1933 Shelbourne
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

He is mainly remembered for his time with Celtic, joining the club from the Junior grade in Glasgow.[3] He had a relatively short period as their first choice goalkeeper, in between the spells of Charlie Shaw and John Thomson. He did take part in winning the Scottish Cup in 1925, the Scottish Football League in 1925–26 and the Glasgow Cup in 1926–27 (having played in the team that lost in the finals of both that competition and the Scottish Cup in the previous year).[4][5]

He later played for South Shields and Nelson in England,[6] was player-manager of Shelbourne in Ireland,[2] then returned to Scotland with Hamilton Academical (where injury cost him a place in the 1935 Scottish Cup Final)[2] and Albion Rovers.

References edit

  1. ^ Statutory registers – Births – Search results, ScotlandsPeople
  2. ^ a b c Shevlin, Peter (1933), Hamilton Academical Memory Bank
  3. ^ John Litster (October 2012). "A Record of pre-war Scottish League Players". Scottish Football Historian magazine. {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  4. ^ (Celtic player) Shevlin, Peter, FitbaStats
  5. ^ Matt Corr – And they gave us James McGrory and Danny Dawson (page 4), The Celtic Star, 18 March 2020
  6. ^ Peter Shevlin, Doing The 92

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