Allan Maxwell (2 April 1869 – 1956) was a Scottish

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who played in

the Football League The English Football League (EFL) is a league of professional football clubs from England and Wales. Founded in 1888 as the Football League, the league is the oldest such competition in the world. It was the top-level football league in Engla ...

for

Darwen Darwen is a market town and civil parish in the Blackburn with Darwen borough in Lancashire, England. The residents of the town are known as "Darreners". The A666 road passes through Darwen towards Blackburn to the north, Bolton to the south ...

, Everton and

Stoke Stoke is a common place name in the United Kingdom. Stoke may refer to: Places United Kingdom The largest city called Stoke is Stoke-on-Trent in Staffordshire. See below. Berkshire * Stoke Row, Berkshire Bristol * Stoke Bishop * Sto ...

Career

Maxwell was born in

Motherwell Motherwell ( sco, Mitherwall, gd, Tobar na Màthar) is a town and former burgh in North Lanarkshire, Scotland, United Kingdom, south east of Glasgow. It has a population of around 32,120. Historically in the parish of Dalziel and part of Lana ...

(though resided mainly in Hamilton in his youth)The Allan Maxwell Story
Tony Onslow, EFC Heritage Society, 14 April 2020 and played for

Cambuslang Cambuslang ( sco, Cammuslang, from gd, Camas Lang) is a town on the south-eastern outskirts of Greater Glasgow, Scotland. With approximately 30,000 residents, it is the 27th largest town in Scotland by population, although, never having had a ...

in the inaugural season of the

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, also featuring in the

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challenge fixture, before joining English club Everton in 1891, along with goalkeeper

Archibald Pinnell Archibald Pinnell (1870–1948) was a Scottish professional footballer who played as a goalkeeper. Career Born in Ayrshire (although most of his early and later years were spent in Blantyre, South Lanarkshire), he initially played in the ...

. He spent three years at Everton during the period when they moved from

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, scoring 15 goals, and helped them reach the

1893 FA Cup Final The 1893 FA Cup Final was a football game contested by Wolverhampton Wanderers and Everton. Wolves won by a single goal, scored by Harry Allen. This was the only time the final was staged at Fallowfield Stadium. Although the official atte ...

where he played in a 1–0 defeat to

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. He joined

in 1893 and spent another three years with the struggling Lancashire club before he was subject to a bizarre transfer to

: instead of requesting an amount of money for Maxwell, Darwen instead wanted Stoke to provide them with a new set of

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gates. He spent two seasons with Stoke, making 37 appearances and scoring six goals, before returning to Scotland with St Bernard's. He soon emigrated to the United States in 1902 and remained living there until his death.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Maxwell, Allan Scottish men's footballers Stoke City F.C. players Darwen F.C. (1870) players Everton F.C. players English Football League players Scottish Football League players 1869 births 1956 deaths St Bernard's F.C. players Footballers from Motherwell Cambuslang F.C. players Men's association football forwards Scottish emigrants to the United States