James Abbott (soccer player)

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James Abbott
Personnel
Surname James Arthur Abbott
birthday September 7, 1892
place of birth Patricroft ,  England
date of death December 1952
Place of death Barton-upon-Irwell ,  England
position Half-forward (right)
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
Barton Albion
1912-1913 Eccles Borough
1913-1915 Manchester City 3 (2)
1 Only league games are given.

James Arthur Abbott (born September 7, 1892 in Patricroft , † December 1952 in Barton-upon-Irwell ) was an English football player .

Career

Abbott played for the school team in Barton-upon-Irwell and at the age of 14 for Barton Albion in the Manchester Amateur League , where he is said to have achieved an average of two goals per game over four years. Shortly after the start of the 1912/13 season, he joined Eccles Borough in the Lancashire Combination and won the league championship with the club. For the 1913/14 season Abbott moved to Manchester City in the Football League First Division together with the brothers Albert and Peter Fairclough , who had scored 71 goals in the championship season for Eccles Borough (29 from Abbott) .

There he made his debut after a few appearances in the reserve team shortly after his 19th birthday on September 13, 1913 in a 3-1 away win against Sheffield United in the right half-forward position and contributed to the success with one goal. He was also in the squad the following week against Derby County , despite another Abbott goal, the team lost 2-1. Abbott also formed the right attacking side with Sid Hoad a week later in a 3-1 defeat by Tottenham Hotspur , but George Wynn and Harry Taylor were preferred as the season progressed. In late January 1915, Abbott was suspended from Manchester City for an indefinite period of misconduct; until April 1915 he is said to have belonged to the club.

In February 1916 Abbott had an appearance for Portsmouth FC against the Bristol Rovers (final score 3-0) in the South-Western Combination , a war-related replacement competition. Abbott had already entered the army in March 1915 and served with the South Wales Borderers , in December 1917 he was honorably discharged from the army because he "no longer had the physical fitness for military service". In the early 1920s he appeared as a crown green bowls player (a variant of bowls ) and took part in several major tournaments.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Ian Penney: THE CITY ALPHABET: A Complete Who's Who of Manchester City . EJ Morten Publishers, 2018, ISBN 978-0-85972-055-7 , pp. 1 .
  2. ↑ a b Manchester City's Debutant. . In: Athletic News , September 15, 1913, p. 1.  (link subject to charge)
  3. ^ A b Tony Matthews: Manchester City: Player by Player . Amberley Publishing, Stroud 2013, ISBN 978-1-4456-1725-1 , pp. 7 .
  4. ↑ THE FOOTBALL LEAGUE. . In: The Scotsman , February 2, 1915, p. 3.  (link subject to charge)
  5. ↑ SOUTH-WESTERN COMBINATION. Portsmouth v. Bristol Rovers. . In: Portsmouth Evening News , February 12, 1916, p. 5.  (paid link)
  6. ↑ Mick Cooper: Pompey People: Portsmouth FC Who's Who (1899-2000) . Yore Publications, Harefield 2000, ISBN 978-1-874427-58-2 , pp. 5 .
personal data
SURNAME Abbott, James
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Abbott, James Arthur (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION English soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH September 7, 1892
PLACE OF BIRTH Patricroft
DATE OF DEATH December 1952
Place of death Barton-upon-Irwell