Peter Nellies (24 April 1886 – 15 July 1930) was a Scottish

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,The Hawthorns Series
Scottish Sport History, October 2014 who played for Heart of Midlothian (where he played before, during and after World War I while also working in a reserved occupation as a coal miner during the conflict, and is ranked 8th on the club's all-time appearances list in the

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), King's Park and

Carlisle United Carlisle United Football Club ( , ) is a professional association football club based in Carlisle, Cumbria, England. The team compete in , the fourth tier of the English football league system. They have played their home games at Brunton Par ...

. He gained two caps for the

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(one as captain) and was selected nine times for the Scottish League XI, and was also

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of Berwick Rangers. Nellies's sister married footballer

Willie Cringan William Cringan (21 April 1890 – 12 May 1958) was a Scottish footballer who played for Sunderland, Ayr United, Celtic, Third Lanark and Motherwell, and for the Scotland national team. Career Club Cringan, a centre half, started his senior c ...

; the brothers-in-law played together once for the Scottish League XI in 1919.Association Football The Inter-League Game
The Glasgow Herald, 24 February 1919

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1886 births 1930 deaths Scottish footballers Scotland international footballers Heart of Midlothian F.C. players King's Park F.C. players Scottish Football League players Scottish Football League representative players Scottish football managers Berwick Rangers F.C. managers Association football fullbacks Association football wing halves Scotland wartime international footballers Scotland junior international footballers Douglas Water Thistle F.C. players Scottish Junior Football Association players Road incident deaths in Scotland Association football player-managers Carlisle United F.C. players Scottish miners {{Scotland-footy-defender-1880s-stub

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