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Full name
  
Pearson Ferguson

192?–1931
  
Ayr United

Playing position
  
Forward

Years
  
Team

Role
  
Footballer

Name
  
Pearson Ferguson

Date of birth
  
1905

1931–1932
  
Cork



Place of birth
  
Coalburn, Scotland

Pearson Ferguson (1905 – after 1934) was a Scottish professional footballer who played in the Scottish League for Ayr United and Queen of the South, for Cork in the Free State League, and for Carlisle United in the English Football League. He played as an outside left.

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Life and career

Ferguson was born in Coalburn, South Lanarkshire, the younger brother of Willie Ferguson, who went on to play for Chelsea and play for and manage Queen of the South. Like his brother, Pearson began his football career with Kello Rovers, the team local to the family home in Kirkconnel, Dumfries and Galloway. He moved on to Ayr United, and was playing for that club in the First Division in the 1929–30 season.

He moved to Ireland in the 1931 close season to join Cork. He scored in the opening match of the season as Cork came back from two goals down to secure a 3–3 draw away to Dolphin, scored in the next match, a 2–2 draw with Shamrock Rovers, scored twice in the third, a 6–0 demolition of Jacobs, and in the fifth, exploited his pace to contribute four goals to a 5–3 defeat of Waterford. He finished the 22-game season with 21 goals, which made him the League of Ireland's top scorer (jointly with Waterford's Jack Forster) and helped his club finish runners-up to Shamrock Rovers.

Like most of the "cross-Channel" players who had played in Ireland that season, Ferguson returned home, where he rejoined Ayr United. He then played five times for Queen of the South in the second half of the 1932–33 season, before moving south of the border to join Carlisle United of the Third Division North. In the second of his two seasons in England, he was Carlisle's leading scorer, but with only eleven goals as they finished bottom of the league.

Honours

Individual
  • League of Ireland Top Scorer:
  • 1931-32
  • Source:

    References

    Pearson Ferguson Wikipedia