Jimmy Littlejohn
Personal information | |||
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Full name | James Adam Littlejohn | ||
Date of birth | 8 July 1910 | ||
Place of birth | Glasgow, Scotland | ||
Date of death | 24 August 1989 | (aged 79)||
Place of death | Dundee, Scotland | ||
Position(s) | Centre half | ||
Senior career* | |||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
1934–1939 | St Anthony's | ||
1934–1939 | St Johnstone | 52 | (0) |
1939 | Cowdenbeath | 0 | (0) |
Managerial career | |||
1942–44 | Dundee United | ||
*Club domestic league appearances and goals |
James Adam Littlejohn (8 July 1910 – 24 August 1989]) was a Scottish football player and manager.
Career
He won Scotland junior international caps[citation needed] before joining St Johnstone in 1934.[1] He moved to Cowdenbeath in 1939, but signed for Dundee United under wartime conditions.[2]
He was influential in the club's unexpected progress to the final of the
With the exception of three years when he stepped down due to ill health, he was a board member for the rest of his life, though his greatest contribution to Dundee United was the establishment of Taypools. It was he who spotted the scheme's potential, and without its invaluable financial input it is unlikely that the club could have become established in Division One during the 1960s.
His son, Bill, was a director at Tannadice from 1989 to 2002 and the club's chief executive between October 2000 and January 2002.
References
- ^ John Litster (October 2012). "A Record of pre-war Scottish League Players". Scottish Football Historian magazine.
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