Hugh McNeil (born 1902) was a Scottish footballer who played as a centre half or

right half A midfielder is an outfield position in association football. Midfielders may play an exclusively defensive role, breaking up attacks, and are in that case known as defensive midfielders. As central midfielders often go across boundari ...

for Hamilton Academical 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 ...

.McNeil, Hugh (1923)
Hamilton Academical Memory Bank He was still featuring fairly regularly for the ''Steelmen'' (11 league appearances in the 1929–30 season) when he emigrated to Nigeria to work in the oil industry, having obtained a university degree. His father of the same name was also a footballer who too played for Motherwell and Hamilton in the same position.McNeil, Hugh (1901)
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1902 births Year of death unknown 20th-century deaths Scottish men's footballers Footballers from Motherwell Scottish Junior Football Association players Men's association football central defenders Men's association football wing halves Larkhall Thistle F.C. players Hamilton Academical F.C. players Motherwell F.C. players British emigrants to Nigeria Scottish Football League players {{Scotland-footy-defender-1900s-stub