Vaughan Russell

{{short description|Scottish footballer}}

{{Use dmy dates|date=July 2024}}

{{Infobox football biography

| name = Vaughan Russell

| fullname = Joseph Vaughan Russell

| birth_date = 13 January 1890{{Cite web |title=1890 Russell, Joseph Vaughan (Statutory registers Births 644/14 127) |url=https://www.scotlandspeople.gov.uk/view-image/nrs_stat_births/43166227 |url-access=subscription |access-date=10 June 2018 |website=ScotlandsPeople |publisher=National Records of Scotland}}

| birth_place = Kinning Park, Scotland

| death_date = 1979 (aged 89)

| death_place = Glasgow, Scotland

| position = Centre forward

| years1 = 1913–1915

| clubs1 = Queen's Park

| caps1 = 0

| goals1 = 0

| years2 = 1919–1920

| clubs2 = Queen's Park

| caps2 = 12

| goals2 = 1

}}

Joseph Vaughan Russell (13 January 1890 – 1979) was a Scottish amateur footballer who played as a centre forward in the Scottish League for Queen's Park.{{Cite web |title=Russell, Joseph Vaughan |url=http://www.qpfc.com/appearances/r/russelljv.htm |access-date=24 October 2016 |website=QPFC.com – A Historical Queen's Park FC Website}}

Personal life

Russell worked as a commercial traveller. He served as a private in the Scottish Horse and as a sergeant in the Royal Engineers during the First World War,{{Cite web |title=The Queen's Park Men Who Served And Survived As At April 2017 – Appendix 2 |url=https://queensparkfc.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/Appendix-2.pdf |access-date=24 October 2016 |pages=11–12}} which included service in Egypt.Medal card of Russell, Joseph V Corps: Scottish Horse Regiment, The National Archives, Kew Russell later had a successful business career, becoming a director of Charles Tennant & Co and managing the Lochaline optical glass mine during the Second World War.{{Cite book |last=Companies |first=Tennant Group of |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ZE3qnQAACAAJ |title=Enterprise: An Account of the Activities and Aims of the Tennant Group of Companies |date=1945 |publisher=Adprint |language=en}}

Career statistics

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|+ Appearances and goals by club, season and competition

! rowspan="2" |Club

! rowspan="2" |Season

! colspan="3" |League

! colspan="2" |Scottish Cup

! colspan="2" |Total

Division

!Apps

!Goals

!Apps

!Goals

!Apps

!Goals

Queen's Park

|1919–20

|Scottish First Division

|12

|1

|0

|0

|12

|1

colspan="3" |Career total

!12

!1

!0

!0

!12

!1

References