James Young (10 January 1882 – 4 September 1922) was a Scottish
football
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player, best known for playing as a
right half
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for the highly successful
Celtic
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Language and ethnicity
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side of the early 1900s. Young helped Celtic to win fifteen major trophies in total, comprising nine league championships and six
Scottish Cup
The Scottish Football Association Challenge Cup,Celtic player Young, James FitbaStats His career was ended by a knee injury suffered in 1916.
Young made one appearance for the
Scotland national football team
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, against
Ireland
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in 1906. He also represented the
Scottish League XI
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six times.
He died in a
motorcycle
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accident in his native Ayrshire, aged 40.
In October 2013, a biography "Sunny Jim Young - Celtic Legend" written by David W. Potter was published.
Honours
;Celtic
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Scottish League
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Glasgow Cup
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