William Francis Paterson 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 as a

wing 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 boundarie ...

(capable of being deployed in the left or right berth), primarily for

Hamilton Academical Hamilton Academical Football Club, often known as Hamilton Accies, or The Accies, is a Scottish association football, football club from Hamilton, South Lanarkshire, Hamilton, South Lanarkshire who currently compete in the Scottish Championshi ...

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 ...

Willie Paterson
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Charlton Athletic Charlton Athletic Football Club is an English professional football club based in Charlton, south-east London, which compete in . Their home ground is The Valley, where the club have played since 1919. They have also played at The Mount in C ...

.Season 1925-26
Into The Valley Charlton Athletic Historical Stats (archived version, 2 February 2021)

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Scottish men's footballers Men's association football wing halves 19th-century births 20th-century deaths Footballers from Hamilton, South Lanarkshire Scottish Football League players Scottish Junior Football Association players English Football League players Petershill F.C. players Hamilton Academical F.C. players Bo'ness F.C. players Arbroath F.C. players Liverpool F.C. wartime guest players Charlton Athletic F.C. players Bostall Heath F.C. players Motherwell F.C. players {{Scotland-footy-midfielder-stub