41 Facts About Dave Halliday

David Halliday was a Scottish association football player and manager.

Dave Halliday achieved numerous distinctions and high rankings as a prolific goal-scoring forward with six senior clubs; St Mirren, Dundee, Sunderland, Arsenal, Manchester City and Clapton Orient.

Dave Halliday bookended his senior career playing at then non-league Queen of the South and Yeovil and Petters United.

Dave Halliday is the quickest player in history to 100 goals in English football's top division, taking 101 games when at Sunderland.

Dave Halliday is the only player to score 30 or more goals in four consecutive seasons in English football's top division.

Dave Halliday scored at least 35 league goals in each of those four seasons.

Dave Halliday is Sunderland's most prolific goals-per-game striker with 165 goals from 175 games.

Dave Halliday was born in Dumfries and started in local schools football where he featured on the left wing.

Dave Halliday firstly attended Noblehill Primary School and thereafter Dumfries Academy.

Dave Halliday then worked with car manufacturer Arrol-Johnston and played for the company's team.

However, despite having played in the new club's trial matches, Dave Halliday did not join Queens until 17 January 1920 as he had a brief spell with Tayleurians.

An early Dave Halliday shot went wide following good link up play with Ian Dickson.

Queens equalised through Willie McCall before Dave Halliday's play became fruitful.

Connell hit a third a minute into the second half before Dave Halliday beat Borthwick to cross for McCall who scored a fourth goal.

Dave Halliday was asked to sign by St Mirren after the cup final win over Dalbeattie.

Dave Halliday requested time to consider the offer before agreeing, with a stipulation that he continued working with Arrol-Johnston and traveled to Paisley on match days.

Dave Halliday next joined Dundee in 1921, for whom Scotland internationalist Alex Troup played on the left wing.

Dave Halliday was thus moved to centre forwards and quickly became one of the most prolific players in the game.

Dave Halliday scored 90 goals in 126 league appearances for the Dees, with another 13 goals from 21 Scottish Cup games in four seasons.

In end-of-season tours with Dundee, Dave Halliday scored doubles against each of Athletic Bilbao, Real Madrid, Valencia CF and FC Barcelona.

Dave Halliday hit his first 100 goals for Sunderland in just 101 games, and remains the quickest player to s century of English top division league goals.

Dave Halliday scored at least 35 league goals in each of the four full seasons he spent at Sunderland, and is the only player at any club to score 30 or more league goals in four consecutive seasons in England's top division.

Hence Dave Halliday has the top four season-by-season league goal scoring tallies at Sunderland.

Dave Halliday has a Sunderland goals to games ratio of 0.94, the highest of any striker in the club's history.

Dave Halliday struck 165 goals in 175 games for the Black Cats comprising 156 league goals from 166 games and nine in nine FA Cup outings.

Dave Halliday scored 12 league hat-tricks, more than any other player.

Dave Halliday hit scored 4 goals in a game on three occasions.

Dave Halliday is Sunderland's third highest goalscorer of all time.

Dave Halliday debuted against Birmingham City on 9 November 1929.

Dave Halliday endured a relatively goalless start for him, playing in an Arsenal team off-form largely attributed at the time to injury affecting key playmaker Alex James.

Dave Halliday scored four putting him on six goals from his four most recent first team games at that point.

Dave Halliday scored 8 goals in 15 games for Arsenal.

Dave Halliday scored a hat-trick against former club Sunderland in just ten minutes in January 1932.

Dave Halliday though missed the 1933 FA Cup Final, which City lost to Everton.

Dave Halliday saw out his senior playing career with Clapton Orient between December 1933 and June 1935.

Dave Halliday top scored in both his full seasons there with 22 and 47 goals respectively.

Dave Halliday scored a further three goals in the FA Cup proper.

Dave Halliday had already reached agreement between Yeovil and Aberdeen that he would take over as Aberdeen manager immediately after the Manchester United tie.

Dave Halliday was appointed manager of Aberdeen on 22 December 1937 but did not take over the reins until after Yeovil's FA Cup tie at Manchester United in January 1938.

Dave Halliday returned to the Aberdeen area and scouted for Leicester City in northeast Scotland.

Dave Halliday scored an FA Cup hat-trick for Yeovil, for a total of 368 first class goals.