Roy McDonald (footballer)

{{Short description|Welsh footballer (1896–1970)}}

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{{Infobox football biography

| name = Roy McDonald

| fullname = Robert William McDonald

| birth_date = 11 July 1896

| birth_place = Penarth, Wales

| death_date = {{Death year and age|1970|1896}}

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| position = Inside left

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| clubs1 = Lovell's Athletic

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| clubs2 = Barry

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| years3 = 1922

| clubs3 = Newport County

| caps3 = 9

| goals3 = 1

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| clubs4 = Lovell's Athletic

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| nationalyears1 = 1923

| nationalteam1 = Wales Amateurs

| nationalcaps1 = 1

| nationalgoals1 = 0

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| managerclubs1 = Lovell's Athletic

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Robert William McDonald (11 July 1896 – 1970) was a Welsh amateur footballer who played in the Football League for Newport County as an inside left.{{Cite book |last=Joyce |first=Michael |title=Football League Players' Records 1888 to 1939 |publisher=Tony Brown |year=2012 |isbn=978-1905891610 |location=Nottingham |page=185}} He was capped by Wales at amateur level and later managed Lovell's Athletic.{{Cite web |last=McColl |first=Brian |last2=Gorman |first2=Douglas |last3=Campbell |first3=George |title=Forgotten Glories – British Amateur Internationals 1901–1974 |url=http://www.scottish-football-historical-archive.co.uk/Forgotten%20Glories.pdf |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170728161609/http://www.scottish-football-historical-archive.co.uk/Forgotten%20Glories.pdf |archive-date=28 July 2017 |access-date=28 July 2017 |page=336}}{{Cite web |last=Rutherford |first=Andy |date=31 May 2020 |title=Faces from Newport's lost footballing past – Lovell's Athletic in team photos |url=https://www.southwalesargus.co.uk/news/18486353.lovells-athletic-lost-newport-football-club-team-photos/ |access-date=3 August 2023 |website=South Wales Argus |language=en}}