Career
Paterson had originally started his football career in the Highland League with Inverness club Caledonian, prior to being called up for National Service in England. He was playing for Midland League club Ransome and Marles based in Newark where he was picked up by Doncaster Rovers in 1950. After five successful seasons with the club, he left to sign for Newcastle United for £22,250 plus that Newcastle would play Rovers with the proceeds adding to the transfer deal.
He had a relatively unsuccessful three years on Tyneside and so returned to Scotland to join Rangers for £3,500.
That was the first of three appearances that he would make that entire season. He left Ibrox in 1962 and joined Greenock Morton but never made a single league appearance for the club
He later joined Cheltenham Town of the Southern League. This was followed by a spell in the 1964/65 season as player/manager with Caledonian.
