James Brownlie (15 May 1885 – 29 December 1973) was a Scottish

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and manager, who played as a

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Career

Brownlie was born in Blantyre, Lanarkshire, and was an outstanding personality in Scottish football over many years, as a goalkeeper and manager. Almost his entire professional playing career, lasting from 1906 to 1923, was spent with

Third Lanark Third Lanark Athletic Club was a Scottish football club based in Glasgow. Founded in 1872 as an offshoot of the 3rd Lanarkshire Rifle Volunteers, the club was a founder member of the Scottish Football Association (SFA) in 1872 and the Scottish ...

, having joined them from local

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team Blantyre VictoriaJimmy Brownlie, Footballer 1885–1973
The Blantyre Project, 9 May 2016 to replace Jimmy Raeside who had moved to English football. Brownlie continued to work in his chosen trade as a bricklayer while playing for ''Thirds'' and maintained a humble outlook despite being an important member of what was one of Scotland's leading clubs of the time (although their best spell, in which they won the Scottish Football League in 1904 and the

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in 1908). Brownlie scored a goal at least twice for Third Lanark, the first a rebound from a penalty kick he had taken against Motherwell in 1911Association Football. Motherwell Succeed
The Glasgow Herald, 11 September 1911
Goalkeepers Are Different and the other during the 1914–15 season. At international level, he played for

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in 16 of the last 17 internationals before the

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, was also selected in four unofficial

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s once the conflict was over, and took part in a Scottish tour of North America in 1921 organised by Third Lanark. He played for the

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14 times. In May 1923, Brownlie was appointed player-manager of Dundee Hibernian, who were renamed Dundee United later that year. He continued to play for a further season, but later made one further appearance in an emergency, at the age of 40 in 1926.A Scottish Football Hall of Fame

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; Random House, 2011; His first managerial spell with the club found early success, with the Division Two title in 1925, and again in 1929, but he left the club in April 1931 on the brink of a third promotion. He returned in 1934 with the club at a low ebb, one away from bottom of Division Two, and helped to effect a partial revival before he left again in October 1936. A third and final spell came in season 1938–39, in a dual role with

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; both men were also appointed as directors of the club at this time. In May 1939, Brownlie announced that he was giving up both roles due to the pressure of his other business interests. After leaving his position at Dundee United, Brownlie continued to regularly attend the club's matches and saw the side finally return to Scotland's top division in 1960. In January 2019 it was announced that Brownlie was to be inducted into the Dundee United Hall of Fame at a dinner the following month.

Honours

As a manager

;Dundee United *

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: 1924–25, 1928–29

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