William Smith Cameron (2 December 1883 – 14 October 1958) was a Scottish football player and manager whose position was mainly as an inside forward, though he was versatile and also played in the centre, on the wing and at half back during his career.
[3] Cameron's playing career, during which he acquired the nickname 'Kilty',[2][1][3] was largely characterised by short periods at several clubs in northern England and south-west Scotland.
[7] His longest spell was at Blackburn Rovers, where he spent five seasons and was part of the squad that won the Football League championship in 1911–12, alongside the likes of fellow Scots Walter Aitkenhead, Johnny Orr and Jock Simpson; he was not an undisputed regular in the team at Ewood Park, but his ability to fill in at several positions meant he was often called upon.
[1] On paper, he was also contracted to Hull City for five years, but in reality he only played there for 18 months before World War I led to the cancellation of official competitions in English football; he had a number of short loans at clubs in the Greater Glasgow area[6][3] (the Scottish Football League continued) and served in the Royal Army Ordnance Corps during the conflict.
In 1919, Cameron became player-manager of Second Division Bury and spent four seasons in charge of the Shakers[9] before being issued with a life ban in 1923 following an investigation into an incident three years earlier when Bury were found to have accepted payments from Coventry City officials to deliberately lose their end-of-season fixture and save Coventry from relegation at the expense of Lincoln City (the extent of his involvement in the incident is not clear).