Vaughan Russell
{{short description|Scottish footballer}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=July 2024}}
{{Infobox football biography
| name = Vaughan Russell
| fullname = Joseph Vaughan Russell
| 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 |
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Queen's Park
|12 |1 |0 |0 |12 |1 |
colspan="3" |Career total
!12 !1 !0 !0 !12 !1 |
References
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Category:Scottish men's footballers
Category:Scottish Football League players
Category:British Army personnel of World War I
Category:Men's association football forwards
Category:Queen's Park F.C. players
Category:Scottish Horse soldiers
Category:Date of death missing
Category:Royal Engineers soldiers
Category:Territorial Force soldiers
Category:Military personnel from Glasgow
Category:20th-century Scottish sportsmen
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