Billy Hogg (Scottish footballer)

William Hogg was a Scottish association football wing forward who spent seven seasons in the American Soccer League.

Billy Hogg
Personal information
Place of birth Scotland
Position(s) Wing forward
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1921–1922 Dundee United 9 (2)
1922–1925 Brooklyn Wanderers 71 (27)
1925–1926 Providence 23 (14)
1926–1927 Philadelphia 28 (9)
1927 Newark Skeeters 24 (17)
1927–1928 New York Giants 26 (4)
1929 Brooklyn Wanderers 1 (1)
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only

Hogg began his career in his native Scotland, seeing time in nine league games for Dundee United F.C. during the 1921–1922 Scottish league season. In the fall of 1923, he signed with the Brooklyn Wanderers of the American Soccer League.[1] He played only one league game, scoring a goal, that season. Over the next two seasons, he became a regular on the Brooklyn front line, scoring twelve goals during the 1923–24 season. This put him ninth on the league scoring list.[2] Although he scored fourteen goals the next season, he was only sixteenth on the list as scoring across the league exploded.[3] Despite his success, the Wanderers sent him to Providence F.C. seven games into the 1925–1926 season. In 1926, he moved to Philadelphia Field Club. In August 1927, Hogg moved to the Newark Skeeters, but transferred to the New York Giants after fifteen games. During the 1928–1929 season, the Giants left the American Soccer League during the Soccer War and moved to the Eastern Professional Soccer League. Hogg played most of the season with Giants, but finished it with a single game, again scoring a lone goal, with the Brooklyn Wanderers.

  • Jose, Colin (1998). American Soccer League, 1921–1931 (Hardback). The Scarecrow Press. (ISBN 0-8108-3429-4).

References
  1. AMERICAN SOCCER LEAGUE NOTES: SIZING UP THE ELEVENS
  2. "The Year in American Soccer – 1924". Archived from the original on 10 January 2015. Retrieved 26 November 2012.
  3. "The Year in American Soccer – 1925". Archived from the original on 2 November 2015. Retrieved 26 November 2012.
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