Douglas McBain

Douglas McBain
Personal information
Full name Douglas M. McBain
Date of birth (1924-09-22)22 September 1924
Place of birth Blantyre, Scotland
Date of death 1 February 2008(2008-02-01) (aged 83)
Place of death Scotland
Playing position Wing half
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1942–1944 Dumbarton ? (?)
1944–1946 Hamilton Academical ? (?)
1946–1948 Queen's Park 20 (0)
1948–1955 Queen of the South 148 (3)
Total 168 (3)
National team
1948 Great Britain 3 (1)

* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only.


Douglas "Dougie" M. McBain (22 September 1924 – 1 February 2008) was a Scottish footballer who played in the run to the semi final for Great Britain at the 1948 Summer Olympics.[1][2][3] McBain played club football as a wing half for Dumbarton, Hamilton Academical, Queen's Park and Queen of the South.[4]

Playing career

Dougie McBain's club football is best remembered for his time with Dumfries club Queen of the South.[1] McBain gave Queens seven years from 1948, the year in which he played in the run to a Wembley semi final of the Olympics Games for Matt Busby's Great Britain side (McBain scored against Netherlands at Highbury in the first round).[1][5] McBain was one of two players in the GB Olympic team to move from Queens Park to Palmerston Park that Summer. The other was Jimmy McColl.[1]

At Queens McBain played beside some of the finest names to have played for the club such as Billy Houliston, Roy Henderson, Dougie Sharpe, Jackie Oakes, Jim Patterson, Jimmy Binning and Bobby Black.[6] McBain's time there was part of the finest era in the club's history. McBain played in and scored in Queens' run to the 1950 Scottish Cup semi finals where Rangers needed a replay at Hampden Park to see off Queens. McBain was an integral part of the side that achieved numerous other points of note in the first half of the 1950s.[1][5]

McBain left QoS in 1955 after a contractual dispute with the chairman and retired from professional football. He was aged 30 at the time.[1]

Education and later career

Having been schooled at the Hamilton Academy, McBain went on to graduate from Edinburgh University before becoming a lecturer at Telford College.[1][7][8]

Dougie McBain died on 1 February 2008, aged 83.[1]

References

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