Archie Macaulay

Infobox Football biography
playername = Archie Macaulay


fullname = Archibald Renwick Macaulay
dateofbirth = birth date|1915|07|20
cityofbirth = Falkirk
countryofbirth = Scotland
dateofdeath = death date and age|1993|6|10|1915|07|30
cityofdeath =
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height =
position = Inside right / Wing half
youthyears =
youthclubs =
years = 1933–1937 1937–1946 1946–1947 1947–1950 1950–1953 1953–1957
clubs = Rangers West Ham United Brentford Arsenal Fulham Guildford City
caps(goals) = 36 (7) 83 (29) 26 (2) 103 (1) 48 (4)
nationalyears =
nationalteam =
nationalcaps(goals) =
manageryears = 1953–1957 1957–1961 1961–1963 1963–1968
managerclubs = Guildford City Norwich City West Bromwich Albion Brighton & Hove Albion

Archibald Renwick "Archie" Macaulay (July 30 1915 – June 10 1993) was a Scottish football player and manager.

Playing career

Born in Falkirk, Macaulay started his playing career with Rangers, where he became a regular at the age of only 18. Playing as an inside right, he won a Scottish Cup medal in 1935-36 and a Scottish League Championship medal the year after. In 1937 he was transferred to West Ham United for £6,000; the Second World War interrupted his career somewhat but he still won a Wartime Cup medal in 1940 and played five unofficial wartime matches for Scotland.

Macaulay was signed by Brentford in October 1946, and made his official Scotland debut (against England at Wembley Stadium on April 12, 1947). By this time he had been converted to a wing half, Brentford were relegated to the Second Division at the end of the 1946-47 season, and he was signed by Arsenal in July 1947 for £10,000. Macaulay made his Arsenal debut against Sunderland on 23 August 1947 and in his first season with the Gunners, he played 40 league matches and won a First Division Championship medal.

He continued to play for Arsenal as a near ever-present for the next two seasons, although he missed out Arsenal's 1950 FA Cup triumph after manager Tom Whittaker preferred fellow Scot Alex Forbes in the final. Macaulay left Arsenal for Fulham in June 1950; in all he made 108 appearances in three seasons, scoring one goal. He also won six more caps for Scotland while at Arsenal, bringing his total tally to seven. He spent three season at Fulham, though he could not save them from relegation to Division Two in 1951-52. He moved to Guildford City after that, to become the club's player-manager.

Managerial career

In 1957 he succeeded Tom Parker as manager of Norwich City, where he led the Third Division side to the FA Cup semi-finals in 1959 in one of the most famous FA Cup runs of all time, and promotion to the Second Division the following year. In 1961 he moved on to West Bromwich Albion, though the Baggies did little under his two-year reign, instead enjoying mid-table obscurity.

Macaulay finished his managerial career at Brighton & Hove Albion between 1963 and 1968, leading the club to promotion from the Fourth Division in 1965. After that, he left football management completely, and later worked as a traffic warden. [cite web | url=http://football.guardian.co.uk/Columnists/Column/0,4284,1360982,00.html | title='The day of the traditional manager may be nearing its twilight' | work=The Guardian] He died in June 1993, aged 77.

Footnotes

References

*cite book
author=Soar, Phil & Tyler, Martin
title=The Official Illustrated History of Arsenal
publisher=Hamlyn | year=2005
id=ISBN 0-600-61344-5

External links

*soccerbase (manager)|id=88|name=Archie Macaulay

Persondata
NAME=Macaulay, Archie
ALTERNATIVE NAMES=
SHORT DESCRIPTION=Footballer; Football manager
DATE OF BIRTH=July 30, 1915
PLACE OF BIRTH=Falkirk, Scotland
DATE OF DEATH=June 10, 1993
PLACE OF DEATH=Unknown