Joe Kennaway
James Kennaway (born January 25, 1905 in Point St. Charles , Montreal , † March 7, 1969 in Johnston , Rhode Island ), called Joe Kennaway, was a Canadian football goalkeeper.
Joe was between 1931 and 1939 for the Scottish football club Celtic Glasgow 295 times in goal and was able to win the Scottish Championship twice and the Scottish Cup three times.
Kennaway began his footballing career with the Canadian amateur club Montreal CPR. In January 1927 he moved to the Providence Clamdiggers in the American Soccer League . The team was renamed Providence Gold Bugs the following year and moved to Fall River in 1931. After he was able to draw attention to himself in a friendly match with Fall River FC against the team from Celtic, who were on tour in the US in the summer of 1931, he moved to Scotland that same year. In the ASL he played a total of 158 league games.
He played an international match for the Canadian national soccer team , for which he was used against the USA in 1926, and for the Scottish national soccer team , for which he was in goal in the 1933 2-2 win against Austria in Glasgow. This was the first game in which a continental European national team went undefeated on British soil.
After his active career he was in charge of the Brown University team from 1946 to 1959 .
In 2000 he was inducted into the Canadian Hall of Fame .
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| SURNAME | Kennaway, Joe |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Kennaway, James (real name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Canadian soccer goalkeeper |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 25, 1905 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Point St. Charles , Canada |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 7, 1969 |
| Place of death | Johnston (Rhode Island) |