James Foster (football player, 1874)

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James Foster
Personnel
birthday 3rd quarter 1874
place of birth Preston ,  England
position External runner (right), central runner
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
1897-1899 Reading FC 25 (0)
1899-1900 Northampton Town 23 (4)
1900-1901 Leicester Fosse 20 (0)
1901-1902 FC Kettering
1902–? Rothwell Town Swifts
1 Only league games are given.

James Foster (3rd quarter 1874 in Preston , † unknown) was an English football player .

Career

Foster played at the beginning of his career from 1897 to 1899 for Reading FC in the Southern Football League , when he reached two fifth places in the final table, he came to a total of 25 inserts. In October 1898 Foster was fined £ 1 for "misconduct" by the club, and three of his teammates were suspended for three weeks. In the season 1899/1900 he was active for one season with Northampton Town in the Midland Football League . The club was newly admitted to the Midland League and immediately reached third place in the table. Foster was active as a regular on the outside runner position and in the further course of the season as a center runner and was also successful several times as a penalty taker. In May 1900 he moved to the Football League Second Division at Leicester Fosse , where he was provided as a replacement for Herbert Dainty .

During his time at Leicester, he lived with his teammate Peter Kyle in close proximity to the stadium on Filbert Street . Foster came in particular at the beginning of the season to 20 league appearances as a right wing runner before he was ousted in this position by Arthur Berry . With the return of Dainty the following season, Foster left Leicester Fosse again and moved to the Southern League for FC Kettering . There, his term ended in the spring on charges of "drunkenness and disturbance of the peace" for which he was sentenced in a local court to a fine of five shillings and the costs of four shillings and four pence. He continued his footballer career from mid-1902 at Rothwell Town Swifts in the Northamptonshire League .

literature

  • Dave Smith & Paul Taylor: Of Fossils & Foxes: The Official, Definitive History of Leicester City Football Club . Pitch Publishing, Brighton 2016, ISBN 978-1-78531-228-1 , pp. 259 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ cf. Alan Sedunary: Heaven on Earth: The Official History of Reading FC Yore Publications, Harefield 2003, ISBN 978-1-874427-79-7 , pp. 185 f .
  2. ↑ READING PLAYERS SUSPENDED. . In: Daily Gazette for Middlesbrough , October 8, 1898, p. 3.  (paid link)
  3. ↑ cf. Frank Grande: Northampton Town FC: The Official Centenary History . Yore Publications, Harefield 1997, ISBN 1-874427-67-4 , pp. 163 .
  4. ↑ DIVISIONAL PETTY SESSIONS. . In: Northampton Mercury , March 21, 1902, p. 3.  (paid link)
personal data
SURNAME Foster, James
BRIEF DESCRIPTION English soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH between July 1874 and September 1874
PLACE OF BIRTH Preston
DATE OF DEATH 20th century