James Colville

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James Colville
Personnel
birthday 1868
place of birth CoyltonScotland
position Winger (left), half- forward (left)
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
until 1892 Annbank FC
1892-1893 Newton Heath 9 (1)
1893– Fairfield Athletic
Notts County 0 (0)
1895– Annbank FC
1 Only league games are given.

James Colville (* 1868 in Coylton ; † unknown) was a Scottish football player who played for three years in England from 1892 to 1895 and made nine appearances in the Football League First Division .

Career

Colville played in the early 1890s for Annbank FC , a club from the mining street village of Annbank , which was one of the dominant clubs in Ayrshire before the turn of the century . The club won the Ayrshire Cup in 1890 and 1892 , the Ayrshire Football League in 1892 and stood against the Glasgow Rangers in the quarter-finals of the Scottish FA Cup in 1891/92 . In October 1892 Colville moved from Scottish amateur football - the professionalism was not approved in Scotland until 1893 - to the professional club Newton Heath , based in Manchester in northern England , which is part of theFootball League First Division played and its squad was composed largely of Scottish players. Colville was the first in a series of Annbank players to join Newton Heath in the years that followed. His strike partner on the left wing, Tommy Fitzsimmons , followed just a month later, and Will Davidson (1893), David Fitzsimmons (1895), James Vance (1896) and John Gourlay (1899) also hired at Newton Heath.

Colville made his debut as a left winger on November 12, 1892 in a 3-1 home defeat by Notts County, a week later he formed the left attacking side with his former Annbank teammate Tommy Fitzsimmons in a 2-0 win against Aston Villa for the first time. The partnership had seven other games, including a 2-2 draw against Accrington Stanley , when both contributed a hit. Newton Heath was the entire season at the bottom of the table and strengthened in March 1893 for the upcoming "Test Matches" (relegation games) against Small Heath with the Scot Joe Cassidy , who displaced Colville on the left wing. Colville was then used neither in the last four games of the season, nor in the successful games for relegation against Small Heath.

At the end of the season he left Newton Heath, but stayed in the Greater Manchester area and moved to the Lancashire League at Fairfield Athletic . Fairfield aspired to be accepted into the Football League and Colville was probably there also in the season 1894/95 in the league win and the achievement of the main round of the FA Cup involved. As a test player he was in the season 1894/95 also temporarily with Notts County, but remained without further use in the Football League and returned in June 1895 to Annbank FC in Scotland.

literature

  • Michael Joyce: Football League Players' Records 1888 to 1939 . 2nd revised edition. Soccerdata, Nottingham 2004, ISBN 1-899468-67-6 , pp. 58 .
  • Garth Dykes: The United Alphabet - A Complete Who's Who of Manchester United FC ACL & Polar Publishing Ltd., Leicester 1994, ISBN 0-9514862-6-8 , pp. 87 .