William Cringan (21 April 1890 – 12 May 1958) was a Scottish footballer who played for Sunderland, Ayr United, Celtic, Third Lanark and Motherwell, and for the Scotland national team.
Cringan, a centre half, started his senior career when he joined Sunderland from Douglas Water Thistle in 1910.
[1][2] After five and a half seasons on Wearside, and with English football suspended during World War I, he returned to Scotland with Ayr United on a temporary transfer in January 1916.
In the summer of 1917 he left the Black Cats to join Ayr on a permanent basis,[3] signing for Celtic in a £600 transfer deal a few months after that.
[8] Cringan married the sister of footballer Peter Nellies;[9] the brothers-in-law played together once for the Scottish League XI in 1919.