James Foster (soccer player, 1903)

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James Foster
Personnel
birthday 1st quarter 1903
place of birth Sherburn Hill ,  England
position Middle runner , outer runner
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
Wheatley Hill Colliery
1923-1925 Arsenal FC 0 (0)
1925 AFC Barrow 7 (0)
1 Only league games are given.

James Foster (* 1st quarter 1903 in Sherburn Hill , † unknown) was an English football player .

Career

Born in the north-east of England , Foster played for Wheatley Hill Colliery , a club founded in 1922, in the Palatine League before moving to the British capital London in 1923 to join Arsenal's first division . To have done it without the leap into the first team, he was not obliged after two years at Arsenal and moved to season 1925/26 for Barrow AFC in the Football League Third Division North . The club had to put together an almost completely new team for the new season , Foster was counted by the Athletic News next to Horace Parkes , Tom Hatch and John Mooney among the promising young players.

At the start of the season he formed the runner- up in the 3-2 defeat against AFC New Brighton as a middle runner with Tom Atkinson and Albert Tubb , but was taken out of the team by coach JE Moralee after two further defeats . At the end of September and the end of October he played two more league games each, in which he was called up either as a left or right runner and even as a center forward ; On the occasion of the 2-0 defeat at Southport FC , he was praised with the following words: "The best of the guest runner series was Foster, a great spoiler and clever tactician." On his last appearance on October 24, 1925, a 1-3 defeat against AFC Rochdale , he was the runner row as the season opener with Atkinson and Tubb. Foster left the club a short time later after losing seven league appearances, Barrow ended the season behind on the bottom of the table. In November 1925, he is said to have auditioned as a test player for FC West Stanley , which is playing in the North Eastern League ; no other footballing stations have been recorded.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Garth Dykes: A Who's Who of Barrow AFC . SoccerData, Nottingham 2009, ISBN 978-1-905891-14-6 , pp. 45 .
  2. ↑ Club station according to the English National Football Archive (ENFA) , accessed on December 8, 2019
  3. ↑ NEW CLUB ATR WHEATLEY HILL. . In: Hartlepool Northern Daily Mail , June 13, 1922, p. 5.  (paid link)
  4. ↑ BARROW. . In: Athletic News , August 3, 1925, p. 13.  (link with costs)
  5. ↑ BARROW OVERPLAYED. . In: Lancashire Evening Post , September 21, 1925, p. 7.  (paid link)
  6. ↑ ANOTHER BIG TEST FOR BARROW. . In: Lancashire Evening Post , October 23, 1925, p. 9.  (paid link)
  7. ↑ Michael Gardner: The Definitive Barrow AFC SoccerData, Nottingham 2000, ISBN 978-1-899468-14-0 , pp. 29 .
personal data
SURNAME Foster, James
BRIEF DESCRIPTION English soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH between January 1903 and March 1903
PLACE OF BIRTH Sherburn Hill
DATE OF DEATH 20th century or 21st century