Jimmy Archibald

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Jimmy Archibald
Personal information
Full name James Mitchell Archibald
Date of birth (1892-09-18)18 September 1892
Place of birth Falkirk, Scotland
Date of death 25 January 1975(1975-01-25) (aged 82)
Place of death Waltham Forest, London
Height 5 ft 8+1⁄2 in (1.74 m)[1]
Position(s) Wing half
Youth career
0000 –1912 Motherwell Hearts
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1912–1914 Camberslang Rangers
1914 Bellshill Athletic
1914–1919 Motherwell 52 (19)
1919–1922 Tottenham Hotspur 24 (1)
1922–1923 Aberdare Athletic 30 (2)
1923–1926 Clapton Orient 49 (1)
1926–1927 Southend United 0 (0)
1927–1928 Margate Town
1928 Chatham
1929–1930 Tunbridge Wells Rangers 36 (2)
1930–1931 Ashford
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

James Mitchell Archibald (18 September 1892 – 25 January 1975) was a Scottish professional footballer.

Falkirk-born Archibald initially played as a centre-forward. He was a Lanarkshire Juvenile League and Scottish Juvenile Cup winner in 1912 playing with Motherwell Hearts and played for the Scottish Juvenile Association representative team.[2] The following season he moved on to Glasgow Junior Football League club Camberslang Rangers[3] where he played for two seasons. In July 1914 he joined Bellshill Athletic[4] but within a few months, in October 1914, he signed with senior level Scottish Football League First Division club Motherwell.[5][6] He scored on his debut later that month in a 1–1 draw at St Mirren. He played with Motherwell for five seasons which coincided with World War I and during this period converted to playing as a wing-half.

Archibald moved to Tottenham Hotspur in the summer of 1919, making his debut in the 1919–20 season in which Spurs were Champions of the Football League Second Division. Over three seasons he played 24 league games, scoring once, before in the summer of 1922 moving to Aberdare Athletic of the Football League Third Division South. Thirty league games and two goals over the 1922–23 season resulted in a move to Clapton Orient.[7] He played 52 times for Orient, 49 games in the Football League Second Division scoring once, and three games in the FA Cup. He was made available for transfer by Orient in May 1926 and subsequently in the following September joined Southend United.[8][7]

He left Southend without playing in their first team and in December 1927 joined non-league Margate Town[9] who, with Archibald playing in their team, were the 1927–28 Kent League runners-up. In September 1928 he was on a month's trial with Chatham[10] and for the 1929–30 season he was with Tunbridge Wells Rangers.[11][12] He played regularly in the first half of the following season with Kent League newcomers Ashford.[13]

Archibald died on 25 January 1975 in Waltham Forest, London.[7]

References[edit]

  1. ^ "The lure of promotion. Clapton Orient". Athletic News. Manchester. 13 August 1923. p. 6.
  2. ^ "Dumbartonshire". Scottish Referee. 28 June 1912. p. 3.
  3. ^ "Junior Football Prospects: Players Old and New: Cambuslang Rovers". Scottish Referee. 26 July 1912. p. 3.
  4. ^ "Junior Prospects: Bellshill Athletic". Scottish Referee. 24 July 1914. p. 3.
  5. ^ "Notelets". Bellshill Speaker. 23 October 1914. p. 3.
  6. ^ Jimmy Archibald, MotherWELLnet
  7. ^ a b c Kaufman, Neilson N; Ravenhill, Alan E (2002). The Men Who Made Leyton Orient Football Club. Tempus Publishing. p. 19. ISBN 0752424122.
  8. ^ "Sporting Items". Nottingham Evening Post. 23 September 1926. p. 8.
  9. ^ "Football: Kent League Division 1: Dartford Reserves 2 Margate Town 3". Isle of Thanet Gazette. 24 December 1927. p. 10.
  10. ^ "Kent League Tussles: Chatham 0, Royal Marines 3". Kent Messenger & Gravesend Telegraph. 15 September 1928. p. 4.
  11. ^ "Tunbridge Wells Rangers F.C.". London Daily Chronicle. 21 August 1929. p. 11.
  12. ^ Joyce, Michael (2004). Football League Players' Records. soccerdata. p. 10. ISBN 1-899468-63-3.
  13. ^ "Notes On Sport". Isle of Thanet Gazette. 13 September 1930.


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