Willie Rutherford

William MacDonald Rutherford (19 January 1945 – 24 October 2010) was an Australian soccer player.

Rutherford played youth football for Methil before signing with East Fife where he made 27 league appearances, scoring 11 goals.

[1] In the late 1960s he moved to Forfar Athletic where he made only five appearances before emigrating to Australia.

[1] Arriving in Australia in 1968, Rutherford joined Sydney Hakoah, where he played in several stints until the mid-1970s.

During his time with the club he was noted as a mercurial, unpredictable but undeniably brilliant player, rated by some as Sydney’s most valuable forward....[4] Rutherford was a very fast runner who took up professional running with some success in the 1970s.