James Vance (soccer player)

James Vance
Personnel
birthday	1876 or 1877
place of birth	Stevenston ,  Scotland
position	Half-forward (left)
Men's
Years	station	Games (goals) 1
until 1896	Annbank FC
1896	Newton Heath	11 (1)
1896-1897	Fairfield Athletic
1897–	Annbank FC
1 Only league games are given.

James Vance (* 1876 or 1877 in Stevenston ; † unknown) was a Scottish football player who played as a professional in England from 1896 to 1897 and made eleven appearances in the Football League Second Division .

Career

In his youth, Vance played 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 . In 1895 the team won the Scottish Qualifying Cup , and Vance may have been a part of the successes in the Ayrshire League (1892, 1893), the Ayrshire Football Combination (1894) and the Ayrshire Cup (1892, 1893, 1895). In January 1896, Vance moved to Manchester in the north of England to Newton Heath in the Football League Second Division , following James Colville (1892), Tommy Fitzsimmons (1892), Will Davidson (1893) and David Fitzsimmons (1895) who had also been from in the previous years Annbank moved to Newton Heath.

Vance came in the second half of the 1895/96 season as a left half-forward to ten league appearances and mostly formed the left attacking side with Dick Smith . For the 1896/97 season, James McNaught was first given preference in the position of the left half-forward and then Matthew Gillespie , who was newly engaged in November , so that it was enough for Vance until his departure shortly before Christmas 1896 only to one more competitive game. He initially stayed in the Greater Manchester area and joined the Lancashire League active club Fairfield Athletic , where some former Annbank players were active with the Fitzsimmons brothers and McEwan. Vance stayed with Fairfield for a few months but returned to Scotland for Annbank FC in March 1897.

literature

• Michael Joyce: Football League Players' Records 1888 to 1939 . 2nd revised edition. Soccerdata, Nottingham 2004, ISBN 1-899468-67-6 , pp. 266 .
• 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. 382 .