Jim Brown (soccer, born 1908)

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Jim Brown
Brown lining up with the United States at the 1930 FIFA World Cup
Personal information
Date of birth (1908-12-31)December 31, 1908
Place of birth Kilmarnock, Scotland
Date of death November 9, 1994(1994-11-09) (aged 85)[1]
Place of death Berkeley Heights, New Jersey, U.S.
Height 6 ft 0 in (1.83 m)
Position(s)
Wing forward
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1928 Bayonne Rovers 16 (13)
1928–1929 Newark Skeeters 42 (12)
1929 New York Nationals 1 (0)
1929–1930 New York Giants 26 (13)
1930 New York Soccer Club 25 (6)
1931 Brooklyn Wanderers 31 (10)
1931–1932 Newark Americans 13 (7)
1932–1934
Manchester United
 40 (17)
1934–1936 Brentford 1 (0)
1936–1937
Tottenham Hotspur
 4 (0)
1937–1941 Guildford City 98 (92[2])
1940 Brentford (guest)
1941 Clyde (guest)
1950–1952 Greenport United 0 (0)
Total 199 (88)
International career
1930 United States 4 (1)
Managerial career
1948–1950 Greenwich High School
1950–1952 Greenport United
1952–1974
Brunswick School
1956–1958
Elizabeth Falcons
Medal record
Men's soccer
Representing  United States
FIFA World Cup
Third place 1930 Uruguay
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

James Brown (December 31, 1908 – November 9, 1994) was a

American Soccer League before moving to England and then Scotland. After retiring from playing, he coached at the youth, senior amateur, and professional levels. He was inducted into the U.S. National Soccer Hall of Fame
in 1986.

Youth

While born in

Partick Thistle
in the 1920s.

Amateur career

Brown never played organized soccer in

Eastern Professional Soccer League. Brown played 42 games and scored 12 goals with Newark in the ASL and the EPSL, or ESL as it was better known. In the middle of the season, James was listed as the 18th leading goalscorer, out of 18 players in the league. However, at the end of the season, he returned to the ASL when he signed with the New York Nationals
, but only played one game and scored no goals.

Professional career

United States

In 1930, Brown became a professional with the New York Giants, scoring 13 goals in 26 appearances. Soon after, he was called up to the U.S. national team for the 1930 World Cup. On his return from Uruguay, he rejoined his team that was renamed the New York Soccer Club, where he scored 6 goals in 25 appearances. He then moved to the Brooklyn Wanderers for the 1931 spring season with his old teammate, Razzo Carroll, where James scored 10 goals in 31 appearances. Brown moved to the Newark Americans in the fall 1931 season, but by this time the ASL was collapsing, and he played 13 games and scored 7 goals. Because of the decline in U.S. soccer, he decided to return to the UK in August 1932.[3]

England

Based on his success in the U.S. both professionally and with the national team, several teams from both England and Scotland expressed an interest in signing Brown. In August 1932, as the Caledonia Cruise liner neared the dock, representatives from these teams awaited him. However, Scott Duncan, manager of

reserves and won the 1934–35 London Challenge Cup.[5]

In September 1936, newly promoted, First Division Brentford sent Brown to

Tottenham Hotspur for a transfer fee of £1,200. In his one season there, he played only four first team games, but scored twenty-one goals in thirty games for the reserves. In July 1937, Brown moved to semi-professional Guildford City of the Southern Football League[6] for a fee of £750. Over his two seasons with Guildford City, Brown scored 148 goals in 150 games and helped the club win the Southern League title during the 1937–38 season.[6] During the 1938/39 season, Brown recorded five Hat-Tricks and scored seven goals (six of them headers) in one game versus Exeter City. Guildford finished in second place, losing out on a second consecutive title by just one point. James had been sick and out of most of the play during the last month of the season. He was loaned out to Brentford's First Division team, to play center-half in the FA Cup match against Fulham, where he scored a goal. He left Guildford City at the end of the 1939/40 season, because of increasing cartilage problems. Guildford City suspended all League play in September 1940. He then moved north to finish his career with Scottish First Division club Clyde, signing in November 1940 and played two matches with his brother John against Queen's Park in February and March 1941. In the February match with Clyde, just like his debut with Manchester United, Brown scored directly from a corner kick. He retired due to injuries soon after. Clyde finished in second place, only three points behind eventual champions Rangers
during the 1940/41 season.

James Brown Soccer Cartoons or Caricatures in the 1930s
James Brown Soccer Cartoons or Caricatures in the 1930s

National team

In 1930, Brown was called up to the

caps with the U.S. national team.[7]

International goals

United States' goal tally first

# Date Venue Opponent Score Result Competition
1. July 26, 1930 Estadio Centenario, Montevideo, Uruguay  Argentina 1–6 1–6 1930 FIFA World Cup

Coaching career

In late 1948, he returned to the United States where he became the head coach of the

American Soccer League from 1956 to 1958. Brown was inducted into the National Soccer Hall of Fame in 1986, the Connecticut State Hall of Fame, and New England Hall of Fame. His son George was inducted in 1995.[8]

Personal life

Having retired from playing professionally in 1941, Brown resumed his trade as a riveter in the Troon Shipyard and then moved back to the U.S. to coach Varsity soccer and Riflery.

Honors

Manchester United Reserves

Brentford Reserves

Guildford City

United States

Individual

See also

References

  1. ^ "Jim Brown". National Football Teams. Benjamin Strack-Zimmermann. Retrieved March 16, 2019.
  2. ISBN 978-1-78280-979-1
  3. ISBN 0-8108-3429-4
    .
  4. ISBN 978-0955294914
    .
  5. ^
    ISBN 1-874427-57-7
    .
  6. ^ a b c Brentford F.C. Griffin Gazette versus Cambridge United 28/01/95. Quay Design of Poole. 1995. p. 26.
  7. ^ Courtney, Barrie (June 29, 2003). "USA – Details of International Matches 1885–1969". RSSSF. Archived from the original on January 13, 2010.
  8. ^ "James Brown - 1986 Inductee | National Soccer Hall of Fame". James Brown - 1986 Inductee | National Soccer Hall of Fame. Retrieved December 19, 2023.
  9. ^ "May 8, 1934". Manchester Guardian.
  10. ^ FIFA.com. "1930 FIFA World Cup Uruguay". FIFA.com. Archived from the original on February 5, 2015. Retrieved June 15, 2016.

External links

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