# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/billy-mccracken
# Generated: 2026-08-13T04:40:59.899Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/billy-mccracken"
name: "Billy McCracken"
slug: "billy-mccracken"
description: "William Robert McCracken was an Irish footballer who played as a defender. He is famous for inventing the offside trap. He was a cousin of Robert McCracken who also had a career as a professional footballer."
tagline: "Northern Irish footballer (1883–1979)"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/d/d9/Bill_McCracken.jpg"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
category:
  name: "Footballers"
  slug: "footballers"
profileType:
  name: "Football / Soccer Player"
  slug: "footballer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q937857"
birthDate: "1883-01-29"
deathDate: "1979-01-20"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           46.1
  momentum:             14.06386887099053
  historical:           8.350973333333332
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     54.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E6%AF%94%E5%88%A9%C2%B7%E9%BA%A5%E5%85%8B%E6%8B%89%E8%82%AF"
    title: "比利·麥克拉肯"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A8%D9%8A%D9%84_%D9%85%D8%A7%D9%83%D8%B1%D8%A7%D9%83%D9%8A%D9%86"
    title: "بيل ماكراكين"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A8%D9%8A%D9%84_%D9%85%D8%A7%D9%83%D8%B1%D8%A7%D9%83%D9%8A%D9%86"
    title: "بيل ماكراكين"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://az.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billi_Makkreken"
    title: "Billi Makkreken"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_McCracken"
    title: "Bill McCracken"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_McCracken"
    title: "Bill McCracken"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://gl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_McCracken"
    title: "Bill McCracken"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billy_McCracken"
    title: "Billy McCracken"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9C%D0%B0%D0%BA%D0%BA%D1%80%D0%B0%D0%BA%D0%B5%D0%BD%2C_%D0%91%D0%B8%D0%BB%D0%BB"
    title: "Маккракен, Билл"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ur.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A8%D9%84_%D9%85%DB%8C%DA%A9_%DA%A9%D8%B1%DB%8C%DA%A9%D9%86"
    title: "بل میک کریکن"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1997827"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump