Peter McNeil was a Scottish

Scotland

Scotland is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. Occupying the northern third of the island of Great Britain, it shares a border with England to the south and is bounded by the North Sea to the east, the Atlantic Ocean to the north and west, and the North Channel and Irish Sea to the...

 footballer

Football (soccer)

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 and along with brother Moses

Moses McNeil

Moses McNeil was a Scottish professional footballer who was one of the founding members of Rangers Football Club. He played as a winger.-Club career:...

, one of the founding members of Rangers Football Club

Rangers F.C.

Rangers Football Club are an association football club based in Glasgow, Scotland, who play in the Scottish Premier League. The club are nicknamed the Gers, Teddy Bears and the Light Blues, and the fans are known to each other as bluenoses...

. He made seven Scottish Cup

Scottish Cup

The Scottish Football Association Challenge Cup,, commonly known as the Scottish Cup or the William Hill Scottish Cup for sponsorship purposes, is the main national cup competition in Scottish football. It is a knockout cup competition run by and named after the Scottish Football Association.The...

 appearances for the club.

He played in Rangers first ever match in May 1872 against now defunct Glasgow

Glasgow

Glasgow is the largest city in Scotland and third most populous in the United Kingdom. The city is situated on the River Clyde in the country's west central lowlands...

 team Callendar on Fleshers Haugh, Glasgow Green

Glasgow Green

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After finishing playing football he continued as match secretary and was hugely influential in the fledgeling years of the Club. McNeil died in 1901 at the Hawkhead Asylum near Paisley

Paisley

Paisley is the largest town in the historic county of Renfrewshire in the west central Lowlands of Scotland and serves as the administrative centre for the Renfrewshire council area...

aged 47. He was certified insane and had been sectioned. The pressures from finiancial problems had taken its toll on his mental and physical health.

On 22 February 2010, Peter McNeil was inducted into the Rangers Hall of Fame.