Jerry Dawson (soccer player, 1909)

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Jerry Dawson
Personnel
Surname James Dawson
birthday October 30, 1909
place of birth Falkirk ,  Scotland
date of death 19th January 1977
position goalkeeper
Juniors
Years station
0000-1929 Camelon Juniors
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
1929-1945 Glasgow Rangers 236 (0)
1945-1949 FC Falkirk 78 (0)
National team
Years selection Games (goals)
1934-1939 Scotland 14 (0)
Stations as a trainer
Years station
1953-1958 East Fife FC
1 Only league games are given.

James "Jerry" Dawson (born October 30, 1909 in Falkirk , † January 19, 1977 ) was a Scottish football goalkeeper and coach.

Career

society

Jerry Dawson, who was born in Falkirk , began his career with the Camelon Juniors in the district of the same name . He got his nickname Jerry from the English goalkeeper Jeremiah "Jerry" Dawson who had played over 500 competitive games at Burnley FC . In November 1929, Dawson signed a contract with the Glasgow Rangers . There he stayed under contract for the next 16 years and won the Scottish Championship seven times and the Cup three times with the team . After the Second World War he worked for FC Falkirk for four years .

After a brief stint as a journalist with the Daily Record , he was appointed East Fife FC coach in July 1953 . He led the club to victory in the league cup in his first year . In July 1958, he left the team after it had to accept relegation to the second division.

After his death in 1977, Dawson was posthumously elected to the Rangers Hall of Fame . Dawson earned the nickname "The Prince in the Yellow Shirt" because the Rangers traditionally wore a yellow goalkeeper jersey.

National team

As a regular goalkeeper of the Glasgow Rangers Dawson made his debut on October 20, 1934 in the Scottish national team in the international match against Northern Ireland in Windsor Park in Belfast. In his sixth international match on April 17, 1937 against England in Hampden Park in Glasgow, a record for a European football match that is still in place today was set with 149,547 visitors.

successes

with the Glasgow Rangers:

with Scotland:

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Match report: Northern Ireland 2: 1 (0: 1) Scotland in the database of the Scottish Football Association (English). Retrieved May 17, 2018.
  2. ↑ Match report: Scotland 3: 1 (0: 1) England in the database of the Scottish Football Association (English). Retrieved May 17, 2018.
personal data
SURNAME Dawson, Jerry
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Dawson, James (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION scottish football goalkeeper
DATE OF BIRTH October 30, 1909
PLACE OF BIRTH Falkirk , Scotland
DATE OF DEATH 19th January 1977