Jim Taylor (soccer player, 1917)

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Jim Taylor
Personnel
Surname James Guy Taylor
birthday November 5, 1917
place of birth Cowley ,  England
date of death March 6, 2001
Place of death Reading ,  England
position Middle runner
Juniors
Years station
Lowe Sawyer FC
Hillingdon British Region
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
1946-1953 Fulham FC 261 (5)
1953-1954 Queens Park Rangers 41 (0)
Tunbridge Wells Rangers
National team
Years selection Games (goals)
1951 England 2 (0)
Stations as a trainer
Years station
Tunbridge Wells Rangers
Yiewsley FC
Uxbridge FC
1 Only league games are given.

James Guy "Jim" Taylor (born November 5, 1917 in Cowley , † March 6, 2001 in Reading ) was an English football player . The middle runner , who has strong headers and tackles, was active in London for Fulham FC and Queens Park Rangers after the Second World War . In addition, he was a substitute in the English squad for the 1950 World Cup in Brazil , but only came to his only two senior international matches for England in May 1951 when he was 33 years old .

Athletic career

Born not far from Uxbridge in the north-west of the British capital, Jim Taylor learned to play football at Lowe Sawyer FC and the Hillingdon British Legion before joining the then second division Fulham FC in March 1938 .

Before the outbreak of the Second World War, however, he waited in vain for a deployment in the first team; only on 7 October 1939 he made his debut in a national war cup competition ( "National War Cup") against Luton Town and helped the "Cottagers" for the semi-finals, which in June 1940 with 3: 4 against West Ham United at Stamford Bridge lost went. The war-related interruption of the official match operation of the Football League bridged Taylor, who as a soldier in the Royal Navy served, with 88 so-called "Wartime Games" for Fulham and further appearances as a "guest players" for Brentford FC , the FC Chelsea , the Burnley FC , Luton Town and St. Mirren FC .

After the end of the fighting, Taylor made his league debut against Bury FC on August 31, 1946 at the age of 28 . This ended with a clear 2: 7 bankruptcy, but from then on he formed with Len Quested and Pat Beasley the center of a successful series of runners at Fulham FC, which in 1949 contributed significantly to the promotion to the top English league as second division champions. By February 1950, Taylor had only missed six games. In addition, after a tour of Canada in the summer of 1950, the English Football Association ( FA ) invited him to join the squad for the upcoming World Cup in Brazil . In the unfortunate debut performance of the English national team, Taylor was harmed and was not used in any of the three preliminary round matches. It was not until the following year that Taylor completed his only two A internationals against Argentina and Portugal and won them both 2-1 and 5-2 in May 1951. Other highlights in Taylor's football career were three games between 1948 and 1951 for the Association of the Football League and further appearances for London selections.

Taylor kept Fulham FC even after relegation to the second-rate Second Division at the end of the 1951/52 season and remained a regular player until April 1953, before he finally ousted Gordon Brice . He then moved to local rivals Queens Park Rangers , where he ended his professional career in the 1953/54 season with 41 league games in the third-rate Third Division South . From May 1954 he was a player- coach at Tunbridge Wells Rangers and later he was head coach for FC Yiewsley and FC Uxbridge. In addition, Taylor went to a civil profession as a painter and varnisher , where he worked, among other things, in Windsor Castle . He retired until his death in March 2001 in Spencers Wood , just a few kilometers south of Reading .

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SURNAME Taylor, Jim
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Taylor, James Guy
BRIEF DESCRIPTION English soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH November 5, 1917
PLACE OF BIRTH Cowley
DATE OF DEATH March 6, 2001
Place of death Reading