James Nicholl

James Nicholl (12 January 1887 – 21 December 1948) was a Scottish footballer who played mainly as an outside left.[1]

James Nicholl
Personal information
Date of birth 12 January 1887
Place of birth Port Glasgow, Scotland
Date of death 21 December 1948(1948-12-21) (aged 61)
Place of death Carluke, Scotland
Position(s) Forward
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
Morningside Rangers
1907–1908 Wishaw Thistle
1908–1910 Airdrieonians  40 (12)
1910–1914 Middlesbrough  52 (13)
1914–1917 Liverpool  52 (12)
1915Wishaw Thistle (loan)
1917 Hamilton Academical   9 (1)
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only

After breaking into top-level football with Airdrieonians, in 1910 he moved to England with Middlesbrough where he made 56 appearances, scoring 13 goals, before joining Liverpool in January 1914.[2] He played at Anfield for eighteen months, and featured in the 1914 FA Cup Final (having scored both his team's goals to win the semi-final), but his career in England was ended by the outbreak of World War I – he had a short spell back in Scotland with Hamilton Academical.[3]

References

  1. John Litster (October 2012). "A Record of pre-war Scottish League Players". Scottish Football Historian magazine. Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  2. Players - Jimmy Nicholl, LFCHistory
  3. Nicholl, James (1917), Hamilton Academical Memory Bank
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