fullname years clubs caps goals birth_place position managerclubs article_title name
william ballantyne 1924 1928 -- 1930 1930 -- 1931 -- 1925 1915 -- 1927 1927 -- 1928 clyde brooklyn wanderers new york americans kearny scots-americans newark germans boston clyde new bedford whalers new york giants 35 63 2 23 glasgow , scotland inside right newark germans red ballantyne
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red ballantyne

willie `` red '' ballantyne was a scottish association football inside right who played in both scotland and the united states .
ballantyne played for both greenock morton and clyde f.c. before jumping to the boston soccer club of the american soccer league in 1924 .
he was back in scotland with clyde f.c. a year later .
however , after two seasons with clyde , ballantyne returned to the united states to sign with the new bedford whalers .
in 1928 , he began the season with the whalers , but the onset of the soccer wars between the league and the united states football association brought considerable turmoil to the professional scene .
the whalers briefly left the asl for the newly created outlaw league , the eastern soccer league .
after a handful of games , it returned to the asl .
however , ballantyne refused to make the move back to the asl and joined the iinew york giants in the esl .
this move occurred by december 1928 , ballantyne had moved to the .
he remained with the giants after the asl merged with the esl in 1930 .
in the fall of 1930 , ballantyne joined the brooklyn wanderers .
he then signed with the new york americans and later played for the kearny scots-americans in the second asl after the original league collapsed in 1933 .
he was with the newark germans in 1935 as a player-manager .
