Neil Kerr

Neil Kerr (13 April 1871 – 2 December 1901) was a Scottish footballer who played mainly as an outside right, for clubs including Rangers and Liverpool.^[3][4]

Neil Kerr

Personal information
Full name	Neil Kerr
Date of birth	13 April 1871
Place of birth	Bowling, Scotland
Date of death	2 December 1901(1901-12-02) (aged 30)[1]
Place of death	Bowling, Scotland
Height	5 ft 8 in (1.73 m)[2]
Positions	Outside right Centre forward
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
1888–1890	Bowling
1890	Cowlairs
1890–1894	Rangers	58	(20)
1894–1895	Liverpool	12	(3)
1895–1896	Nottingham Forest	1	(0)
1896	Clyde	0	(0)
1896–1897	Falkirk
1897–1898	Rangers	1	(0)
* Club domestic league appearances and goals

He played for both clubs in their first seasons in the respective top divisions, featuring in every fixture for Rangers plus the championship play-off^[5] as they shared the 1890–91 Scottish Football League title with Dumbarton.^[a] He also won the Glasgow Cup with the Light Blues in 1893.^[8] He later re-joined the Govan club after spells with Liverpool, Nottingham Forest^[9] and non-league Falkirk,^[10] but was only a reserve in his second spell and featured in just four competitive matches,^[4][11] albeit one of these was in the semi-final second replay of the 1897–98 Scottish Cup,^[12] helping Rangers reach the final which they went on to win.

At representative level, Kerr took part in a Scotland national team trial match in March 1892,^[4] and in November of that year was selected for the Glasgow FA's annual challenge match against Sheffield.^[13]

He was the sole survivor of a yachting accident on the Firth of Clyde in 1896 in which two other men drowned,^[14] but died from gastritis in 1901 at the age of 30.^[15]