Doug Baillie

Douglas Rae Daw Collier Baillie (27 January 1937 – 19 February 2022) was a Scottish footballer who played as a centre-half in the Scottish Football League and the Football League. He was a backup squad member at Rangers during three of the club's title-winning seasons in the early 1960s, playing a handful of matches in each.[3] He also made over 100 league appearances for both Airdrieonians and Falkirk.

Doug Baillie
Personal information
Full name Douglas Rae Daw Collier Baillie[1]
Date of birth (1937-01-27)27 January 1937
Place of birth Douglas Water, Scotland
Date of death 19 February 2022(2022-02-19) (aged 85)
Position(s) Centre-half
Youth career
Douglas Water Thistle[2]
1952–1953 Airdrieonians
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1953–1956 Airdrieonians 35 (5)
1956 Swindon Town 1 (0)
1956–1960 Airdrieonians 88 (10)
1960–1964 Rangers 31 (0)
1964–1965 Third Lanark 19 (3)
1965–1969 Falkirk 104 (7)
1969–1970 Dunfermline Athletic 21 (0)
Total 299 (25)
International career
1955–1958 Scotland U23 2 (0)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

After retiring as a player, Baillie became a football journalist, working for The Sunday Post.[4] Baillie died on 19 February 2022, at the age of 85.[5]

References
  1. "Doug Baillie". Barry Hugman's Footballers. Retrieved 21 February 2017.
  2. Greatest XI - 4. Centre Back, Airdrieonians FC, 20 February 2016
  3. (Rangers player) Baillie, Doug, FitbaStats
  4. Shaw, Phil (8 November 1999). "Brown back at Wembley with a mission". The Independent. London. Retrieved 13 February 2011. Brown, by then playing for Falkirk, almost missed the party. "Myself and two team-mates - Doug Baillie, who's now a reporter for the Sunday Post, and John Lambie, who manages Partick Thistle - went for lunch in the West End. The sweet was so long coming that the other two fled after the main course to get the tube to Wembley."
  5. "Former Rangers and Airdrie star dies after short illness". Daily Record. 19 February 2022. Retrieved 19 February 2022.


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