Jimmy Clark (soccer player, 1913)

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Jimmy Clark
Personnel
Surname James McNicholl Cameron Clark
birthday 1913
place of birth Glasgow ,  Scotland
position Middle runner
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
0000-1933 Clydebank Juniors
1933-1937 Sunderland AFC 49 (0)
1937-1940 Plymouth Argyle 37 (0)
1 Only league games are given.

James McNicholl Cameron "Jimmy" Clark (* 1913 in Glasgow ; † unknown) was a Scottish football player .

Career

Clark's grandfather McNichol played for Sunderland Albion in the Football Alliance around 1890 , his mother was from West Hartlepool . In June 1933, Clark was promoted by Sunderland coach Johnny Cochrane from the Scottish club Clydebank Juniors to the English first division club AFC Sunderland . As a result, he first played in Sunderland's reserve team, in the 1934/35 season he came for the first time to some first division appearances on the middle runner position . In the following season he shared the position of middle runner with Bert Johnston (Clark 28 missions, Johnston 10), when Sunderland won the championship title through the outstanding offensive with Raich Carter , Bert Davis , Patsy Gallacher , Bobby Gurney and Jimmy Connor . In the FA Cup , Johnston also occupied the position, including in the final of the FA Cup in 1936/37 , when the club won the title with a 3-1 win against Preston North End .

In the summer of 1937, Clark joined the second division side Plymouth Argyle and played a total of 37 league games for the club until the end of the game due to the outbreak of World War II in September 1939. This also represented the end of his professional career, in the war-related substitute competitions he came to 16 more missions in the 1939/40 season. Clark joined the British Army and initially served in the Coldstream Guards , subsequently he was transferred to the Royal Air Force and served as a cadet in Toronto , Palm Beach and Mexico and also trained in Lakeland , Florida . In September 1946, a newspaper article reported his recent discharge from the army with the rank of flying officer . In addition, his marriage in Pretoria, South Africa, is said to have been imminent. He took part as captain in a selection game against Rhodesia as captain of a South African selection and also planned to participate in a tour to New Zealand. It has not yet been proven that he ultimately belonged to the South African selection, consisting exclusively of white players, who traveled to Australia and New Zealand in 1947. Clark settled in South Africa and later also worked as a trainer, on a tour from Preston North End to Southern Africa in 1958, he supervised the selection of Southern Transvaal .

successes

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ There are different details about the first name. Both Owen and James can be found in contemporary newspaper reports. Metcalf identifies the player as the former Sunderland player Willie Clark (1881-1937), which is unlikely given the dates of birth
  2. ^ Under the Searchlight . In: Sunderland Daily Echo and Shipping Gazette , February 10, 1936, p. 9.  (paid link)
  3. ↑ SPORTS REVIEW . In: Sunderland Daily Echo and Shipping Gazette , October 22, 1941, p. 4.  (paid link)
  4. ↑ Garth Dykes, Doug Lamming: All the Lads - A Complete Who's Who of Sunderland AFC Polar Print Group Ltd, Leicester 2000, ISBN 1-899538-15-1 , pp. 78 .
  5. ↑ greensonscreen.co.uk: JIMMY CLARK , accessed May 26, 2018
  6. ^ Under the Searchlight. . In: Sunderland Daily Echo and Shipping Gazette , October 22, 1941, p. 4.  (paid link)
  7. ↑ SUNDERLAND ASKED TO PAY £ 14,000. . In: Sunderland Daily Echo and Shipping Gazette , September 14, 1946, p. 3.  (paid link)
  8. ↑ rsssf.com: Preston North End (England) tour of Southern Africa 1958 , accessed May 26, 2018
personal data
SURNAME Clark, Jimmy
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Clark, James McNicholl Cameron (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION scottish soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH 1913
PLACE OF BIRTH Glasgow
DATE OF DEATH 20th century or 21st century