James Lawrence (16 February 1879 – 21 November 1934) was a Scottish
football
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player and
manager
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. A
goalkeeper
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, he played for
Newcastle United
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between 1904 and 1922.
Career
Playing career
Born in
Partick
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, Lawrence's first club was Partick Athletic, from where he moved to
Glasgow Perthshire. Although still connected to Glasgow Perthshire, he played three matches in 1904
for
Edinburgh
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side
Hibernian when their regular custodian
Harry Rennie was unavailable.
He played with Newcastle for eighteen years after joining the
Tyneside
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club in 1904 and still holds the record for making the most appearances for them - 432 league appearances, 496 matches in total.
With Newcastle he won the
English Championship
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in 1905, 1907 and 1909, and the
FA Cup
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in 1910, also playing on the losing side in the finals of 1905, 1906, 1908 and 1911.
In 1911 he also represented the
Scottish national team on one occasion, a 1–1 draw with
England
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at
Goodison Park
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in
Liverpool
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in the
British Home Championship
The British Home Championship
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.
Management
Lawrence showed an aptitude for administration when acting as chairman of
The Players' Union
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in his later days at Newcastle, and after his playing retirement he moved into management.
His first appointment was with then
Second Division
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side
South Shields
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(1922–23) before joining
Preston North End. He stayed with the ''Lilywhites'' until 1925, when he relocated to Germany to manage
Karlsruher FV
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. With this club he won the regional championship of Württemberg/Baden in 1926 and of Baden in 1928, 1929, 1931 and 1932 which qualified the club to participate in the matches for the
German football championship
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.
Lawrence later returned to Scotland and in 1933 was elected chairman of
Stranraer
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.
He died while in office a year later.
Personal life
He was thought to have been born in 1885, and used this year in his registration documents with Newcastle United, but sports historian Andy Mitchell found that he was in fact born six years earlier (along with a twin sister); this discovery makes him Newcastle United's oldest ever player.
Honours
Player
Newcastle United
*
Football League
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championship:
1904–05,
1906–07,
1908–09
*
FA Cup
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winner:
1910
**Runner-up:
1905
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,
1906,
1908,
1911
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Manager
Karlsruher FV
*
Baden regional championship: 1926, 1928, 1929, 1931, 1932
Germany - Championships 1902-1945
RSSSF
References
External links
Toon 1892: Player Profile - Jimmy Lawrence
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1879 births
1934 deaths
Scottish footballers
Scotland international footballers
Footballers from Glasgow
People from Partick
Association football goalkeepers
Newcastle United F.C. players
Hibernian F.C. players
Scottish football managers
Scottish expatriate football managers
Gateshead A.F.C. managers
Preston North End F.C. managers
Chairmen and investors of football clubs in Scotland
English Football League managers
Scottish twins
Twin sportspeople
English Football League players
Stranraer F.C.
Glasgow Perthshire F.C. players
Scottish Junior Football Association players
Scotland junior international footballers
Karlsruher FV managers
FA Cup Final players
20th-century Scottish businesspeople
Scottish expatriate sportspeople in Germany
Expatriate football managers in Germany