Max Murray

Max Murray
Personal information
Full name Maxwell Murray
Date of birth (1935-11-07)7 November 1935
Place of birth Falkirk, Scotland
Date of death 5 September 2016(2016-09-05) (aged 80)
Playing position Striker
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1952–1953 Camelon
1953–1955 Queen's Park 49 (24)
1955–1962 Rangers 103 (80)
1962–1963 West Bromwich Albion 3 (0)
1963–1965 Third Lanark 61 (17)
1965–1966 Clyde 6 (2)
1966–1968 Distillery
National team
1956–1957 Scotland U23 2 (0)

* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only.


Maxwell "Max" Murray (7 November 1935 – 5 September 2016) was a Scottish football player.

Career

Murray began his career at Queen's Park, before moving to Ibrox in 1955. His scoring debut came on the 13 August 1955 in a Scottish League Cup match against Falkirk which the club won 5–0. He had a very successful spell at Rangers, winning two Scottish league championships and finishing top scorer three times in a row. He amassed 121 goals in just 154 and on 24 October 1956 he scored Rangers' first ever goal in European competition, an equaliser in a European Cup first round match against OGC Nice at Ibrox, a match Rangers won 2–1.[1]

He left Rangers in 1962 for West Bromwich Albion, but he only lasted a season in English football before he moved back to Scotland.[2]

On 5 September 2016, Rangers announced that Murray had died aged 80.[3]

References

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