Doug Baillie

Doug Baillie
Personal information
Full name Douglas Rae Daw Collier Baillie[1]
Date of birth (1937-01-27)27 January 1937
Place of birth Douglas Water, Scotland
Date of death 19 February 2022(2022-02-19) (aged 85)
Position(s) Centre-half
Youth career
Douglas Water Thistle[2]
1952–1953 Airdrieonians
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1953–1956 Airdrieonians 35 (5)
1956 Swindon Town 1 (0)
1956–1960 Airdrieonians 88 (10)
1960–1964 Rangers 31 (0)
1964–1965 Third Lanark 19 (3)
1965–1969 Falkirk 104 (7)
1969–1970 Dunfermline Athletic 21 (0)
Total 299 (25)
International career
1955–1958 Scotland U23 2 (0)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Douglas Rae Daw Collier Baillie (27 January 1937 – 19 February 2022) was a Scottish footballer who played as a centre-half in the Scottish Football League and the Football League. He was a backup squad member at Rangers during three of the club's title-winning seasons in the early 1960s, playing a handful of matches in each.[3] He also made over 100 league appearances for both Airdrieonians and Falkirk.

After retiring as a player, Baillie became a football journalist, working for The Sunday Post.[4] Baillie died on 19 February 2022, at the age of 85.[5]

  1. ^ "Doug Baillie". Barry Hugman's Footballers. Retrieved 21 February 2017.
  2. ^ Greatest XI - 4. Centre Back, Airdrieonians FC, 20 February 2016
  3. ^ (Rangers player) Baillie, Doug, FitbaStats
  4. ^ Shaw, Phil (8 November 1999). "Brown back at Wembley with a mission". The Independent. London. Retrieved 13 February 2011. Brown, by then playing for Falkirk, almost missed the party. "Myself and two team-mates - Doug Baillie, who's now a reporter for the Sunday Post, and John Lambie, who manages Partick Thistle - went for lunch in the West End. The sweet was so long coming that the other two fled after the main course to get the tube to Wembley."
  5. ^ "Former Rangers and Airdrie star dies after short illness". Daily Record. 19 February 2022. Retrieved 19 February 2022.