Peter Shevlin

Personal information
Date of birth	18 November 1902
Place of birth	Hamilton, Scotland
Date of death	10 October 1948 (aged 45)
Place of death	Withington Community Hospital, England
Height	5 ft 7 in (1.70 m)
Position(s)	Goalkeeper
Senior career*
Years	Team
–	Pollok
–	St Roch's
1924–1927	Celtic
1927–1929	South Shields
1929–1931	Nelson
1931–1933	Shelbourne
1933–1935	Hamilton Academical
1934	→ Celtic (loan)
1935–1936	Albion Rovers
Total
Managerial career
1931–1933	Shelbourne
	* Club domestic league appearances and goals
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Peter Shevlin (1902–1948) was a Scottish footballer who played as a goalkeeper.

He is mainly remembered for his time with Celtic, joining the club from the Junior grade in Glasgow.^[3] He had a relatively short period as their first choice goalkeeper, in between the spells of Charlie Shaw and John Thomson. He did take part in winning the Scottish Cup in 1925, the Scottish Football League in 1925–26 and the Glasgow Cup in 1926–27 (having played in the team that lost in the finals of both that competition and the Scottish Cup in the previous year).^[4]^[5]

He later played for South Shields and Nelson in England,^[6] was player-manager of Shelbourne in Ireland,^[2] then returned to Scotland with Hamilton Academical (where injury cost him a place in the 1935 Scottish Cup Final)^[2] and Albion Rovers.

References

^ Statutory registers – Births – Search results, ScotlandsPeople
^ ^a ^b ^c Shevlin, Peter (1933), Hamilton Academical Memory Bank
^ John Litster (October 2012). "A Record of pre-war Scottish League Players". Scottish Football Historian magazine. {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
^ (Celtic player) Shevlin, Peter, FitbaStats
^ Matt Corr – And they gave us James McGrory and Danny Dawson (page 4), The Celtic Star, 18 March 2020
^ Peter Shevlin, Doing The 92

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Personal information
Date of birth	18 November 1902^[1]
Place of birth	Hamilton, Scotland
Date of death	10 October 1948(1948-10-10) (aged 45)
Place of death	Withington Community Hospital, England
Height	5 ft 7 in (1.70 m)^[2]
Position(s)	Goalkeeper
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
–	Pollok
–	St Roch's
1924–1927	Celtic	86	(0)
1927–1929	South Shields	66	(0)
1929–1931	Nelson	53	(0)
1931–1933	Shelbourne
1933–1935	Hamilton Academical	71	(0)
1934	→ Celtic (loan)	0	(0)
1935–1936	Albion Rovers	16	(0)
Total		292	(0)
Managerial career
1931–1933	Shelbourne
* Club domestic league appearances and goals