James Nicholl
Appearance
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Personal information | |||
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Date of birth | 12 January 1887 | ||
Place of birth | Port Glasgow, Scotland | ||
Date of death | 21 December 1948 | (aged 61)||
Place of death | Carluke, Scotland | ||
Position(s) | Forward | ||
Senior career* | |||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
Morningside Rangers | |||
1907–1908 | Wishaw Thistle | ||
1908–1910 | Airdrieonians | 40 | (12) |
1910–1914 | Middlesbrough | 52 | (13) |
1914–1917 | Liverpool | 52 | (12) |
1915 | → Wishaw Thistle (loan) | ||
1917 | Hamilton Academical | 9 | (1) |
*Club domestic league appearances and goals |
James Nicholl (12 January 1887 – 21 December 1948) was a Scottish footballer who played mainly as an outside left.[1]
After starting his professional football career with Airdrieonians, he moved to England in 1910 to join Middlesbrough. During his time at Middlesbrough, Nicholl made 56 appearances, and scored13 goals. In January 1914, he signed for Liverpool[2], where he played at Anfield for eighteen(18) months. Nicholl notably featured in the 1914 FA Cup Final, (having scored both his team's goals to win the semi-final victory). However, his career in England was ended by the outbreak of World War I. Afterward, he returned to Scotland and had a brief spell with Hamilton Academical.[3]
References
[edit]- ^ John Litster (October 2012). "A Record of pre-war Scottish League Players". Scottish Football Historian magazine.
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(help) - ^ Players – Jimmy Nicholl, LFCHistory
- ^ Nicholl, James (1917), Hamilton Academical Memory Bank
Categories:
- 1887 births
- Scottish men's footballers
- Scottish Football League players
- English Football League players
- Men's association football outside forwards
- Middlesbrough F.C. players
- Liverpool F.C. players
- Airdrieonians F.C. (1878) players
- Hamilton Academical F.C. players
- Wishaw Thistle F.C. players
- 1948 deaths
- Footballers from Port Glasgow
- Footballers from Wishaw
- 20th-century Scottish sportsmen
- Scottish football forward, 1880s birth stubs