Daniel Crossan Kelly (1893 – 11 January 1948) was a Scottish

footballer A football player or footballer is a sportsperson who plays one of the different types of football. The main types of football are association football, American football, Canadian football, Australian rules football, Gaelic football, rugby le ...

who played mainly as a

centre forward Forwards (also known as attackers) are outfield positions in an association football team who play the furthest up the pitch and are therefore most responsible for scoring goals as well as assisting them. As with any attacking player, the role ...

for Hamilton Academical,Kelly, Dan (1914)
Hamilton Academical Memory Bank Clyde and

Motherwell Motherwell ( sco, Mitherwall, gd, Tobar na Màthar) is a town and former burgh in North Lanarkshire, Scotland, United Kingdom, south east of Glasgow. It has a population of around 32,120. Historically in the parish of Dalziel and part of Lanarks ...

.Daniel Kelly
MotherWELLnet He was Hamilton's leading goalscorer for most of the World War I period (the

Scottish Football League The Scottish Football League (SFL) was a league featuring professional and semi-professional football clubs mostly from Scotland.One club, Berwick Rangers, is based in the town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, which is located approximately 4 km south ...

continued to operate during the conflict). He later played for Bathgate and Bo'ness who at that time were members of the

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outwith the SFL.

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1893 births Date of birth missing Footballers from Motherwell 1948 deaths Scottish footballers Association football forwards Hamilton Academical F.C. players Motherwell F.C. players Clyde F.C. players Bo'ness F.C. players Bathgate F.C. players Scottish Football League players Scottish Junior Football Association players {{Scotland-footy-forward-1890s-stub