[1] McKay was born in Hebburn, County Durham.
[2] He marked his debut for the club, at home to Bradford on 10 September 1910, by scoring the only goal of the game, and played fairly regularly while Frank Foxall, also an outside left, was being tried at inside forward.
The experiment failed, Foxall returned to the wing and McKay lost his place.
[3] When Foxall left, McKay played the first few games of the 1911–12 season, but lost his place again, this time to the newly arrived Jimmy Conlin,[4] and in 1912 he returned to the north-east to join Blyth Spartans.
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