Thomas McCulloch (1 March 1934 – 10 December 2016) was a Scottish
football
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goalkeeper.
McCulloch joined
Clyde from local
junior side
Bridgeton Waverley in 1957. He won the
Scottish Cup in
1958
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, his first season with the club and in senior football, keeping a clean sheet in the final against
Hibernian. McCulloch was one of Clyde's greatest servants, and spent 15 years with the club, making 475 appearances in all competitions. He left Clyde in 1972 and joined
Hamilton Academical for a year before retiring.
He played a total of 491 games in his 16-year career. He regularly attended Clyde functions, and was presented with a bottle of whisky in the 2007–08 Clyde player of the year event, to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the 1958 Scottish Cup win. He was inducted into the inaugural
Clyde FC Hall of Fame in 2011. His death was announced on 10 December 2016.
Honours
Clyde
*
Scottish Cup:
1957–58
*
Scottish Division Two:
1961–62
**Promotion:
1963–64
*
Glasgow Cup: 1958–59
**Runner up: 1963–64, 1967–68, 1970–71
*
Glasgow Charity Cup: 1957–58, 1960–61 (shared);
**Runner up: 1958–59
References
External links
Clyde FC Hall of Fame profile
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Dumbarton F.C. players
Clyde F.C. players
Men's association football goalkeepers
Hamilton Academical F.C. players
Bridgeton Waverley F.C. players
2016 deaths
Scottish Football League players
Scottish men's footballers
1934 births
Footballers from Glasgow
Place of death missing
Scottish Junior Football Association players