{{short description|Scottish footballer}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}} {{Infobox football biography | name= Thomas Thomson Ferguson | image= Third lanark 1923.jpg | caption = Third Lanark team during 1923 tour – Ferguson standing, third from right (striped jersey) | fullname= Thomas Thomson Ferguson | height= 5ft 10in<ref>[https://playupliverpool.com/1927/08/01/season-preview-192728-falkirk-f-c-the-athletic-news/ Season preview 1927-28: Falkirk F.C.], The Athletic News, 1 August 1927, via Play Up Liverpool</ref> | position= Goalkeeper | birth_date= 30 January 1898<ref>[https://search.ancestry.co.uk/cgi-bin/sse.dll?indiv=1&dbid=1518&h=27960478&tid=&pid=&queryId=6488f1f74a423d196061bdf59f55867c&usePUB=true&_phsrc=DGT43&_phstart=successSource 'Highland Pride': La Plata, Argentina to Liverpool, England, 4 Aug 1923], UK and Ireland, Incoming Passenger Lists, 1878-1960, via Ancestry {{subscription required}}</ref> | birth_place= Longriggend, Scotland | death_date= {{death date and age|1955|06|13|1898|01|30|df=y}}<ref name=ffh/><ref>[https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/123144635/Thomas-Thomson-ferguson Thomas Thomson Ferguson], Find A Grave</ref> | death_place= South Africa | youthyears1= | youthclubs1= | years1= – | clubs1= Bedlay Juniors | caps1= | goals1= | years2= 1919–1932 |clubs2= Falkirk | caps2= 451 | goals2= 0 |years3= – |clubs3= | caps3= | goals3= | totalcaps = | totalgoals = |nationalyears1= 1921–1927 |nationalteam1= Scottish League XI |nationalcaps1= 3 |nationalgoals1= 0 }} '''Thomas Ferguson''' (30 January 1898 – 13 June 1955) was a Scottish footballer who played as a goalkeeper. He spent his entire senior career, spanning 13 years, with Falkirk, and holds the club record for appearances (almost 500 in the Scottish Football League and Scottish Cup).<ref name=litsterprewar>{{cite journal|title=A Record of pre-war Scottish League Players|author=John Litster|publisher=Scottish Football Historian magazine|date=October 2012}}</ref><ref name=ffh>[http://www.falkirk-football-history.co.uk/2010/10/thomas-ferguson-falkirk-fc.html?m=1 Thomas Ferguson = Falkirk FC], Falkirk Football Historian, 12 October 2010</ref> He was selected for the Scottish Football League XI three times<ref>{{cite web|url=https://londonhearts.com/sfl/players/thomasferguson.html|title=[SFL player] Thomas Ferguson|website=London Hearts Supporters' Club|accessdate=6 July 2020}}</ref> and in 1923 he was a member of a squad organised by Third Lanark that toured South America.<ref>[https://www.rsssf.org/tables/3rdlanark-satrip23.html Río de la Plata Trip of Third Lanark 1923], Pablo Ciullini, RSSSF, 19 August 2020</ref><ref name=badbhoy>[https://books.google.com/books?id=1xojAwAAQBAJ&dq=%22willie+frame%22+motherwell&pg=PT52 Tommy McInally: Celtic's Bad Bhoy], David Potter; Black & White Publishing, 2009; {{ISBN|9781845025786}}</ref>
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