Sammy Baird
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Samuel Baird (born in Denny, Stirlingshire on 13 May 1930) is a former Scottish footballer.
During his playing career he played for Clyde (1949-1954), Preston North End (1954-1955), Rangers (1955-1960), Hibernian (1960-1962), Third Lanark (1962-1963), and Stirling Albion (1963 as player-manager), and won three Scottish league titles (1955/56, 1956/57 and 1958/59) and one Scottish Cup (1960) with Rangers. He earned 7 international caps with Scotland from 1956 to 1958, scoring on his debut against Yugoslavia and in his last match, a 2-1 defeat by France in the 1958 FIFA World Cup. As the manager of Stirling Albion (1963-1968) he led them to promotion to Division One in the 1964/65 season, but he was sacked as the club was relegated in the 1967/68 season.
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1 Younger | 2 Brown | 3 Parker | 4 Caldow | 5 Hewie | 6 Haddock | 7 McColl | 8 Turnbull | 9 Evans | 10 Docherty | 11 Mackay | 12 Cowie | 13 Baird | 14 Leggat | 15 Scott | 16 Murray | 17 Mudie | 18 Coyle | 19 Collins | 20 Robertson | 21 Imlach | 22 Fernie | Coach: Walker |
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