Jimmy Lawrence
James " Jimmy" Lawrence ( born February 16, 1885 in Glasgow, † November 1934 ) was a Scottish football player and coach. He played 1904-1921 on the position of the goalkeeper for English club Newcastle United FC with whom he won four titles. He also played once for the Scottish national football team. From 1925 to 1931 he was coach of the German club Karlsruher FV.
Career
Jimmy Lawrence originally played in his hometown at Patrick Athletic and Glasgow Perthshire. Occasionally he took during this time but also in first division club Hibernian in the Scottish capital their goalkeeper Harry Rennie.
In 1904 he was hired by the English first division club Newcastle United FC, where he remained until 1921. Overall, he was in those 18 years 432 times in the league and 64 in the Cup for the Northeast Englishman between the posts is what times each club record for players of the club. This record would be even higher if it had not been suspended because of the First World War, the game operation 1915-1919.
It debuted in October 1904 in a 2-0 home win against Manchester City FC. In the first season he won with in that era also respectfully called Edwardian Masters Club, the English football Championship - the first title in club history. 1907 and 1909 was followed by other championships and in 1910 won the Newcastle Cup. Newcastle United defeated play in the final at Goodison Park from Liverpool to a 1-1 draw in the replay to Barnsley FC 2-0. He also reached with the club in the years 1905, 1906 1908 and 1911 the finals of the competition. On the other hand fell in his time at Newcastle, the record home defeat of the club, as Newcastle lost in December 1908 against local rivals Sunderland AFC 1:9. His last game for Newcastle denied the vaunted for its resistance goalkeeper in April 1922 with a 1:2 home defeat against Bradford City AFC. Lawrence was at that time 42 years old. In the eyes of many he is considered the best goalkeeper in the history of Newcastle United.
In April 1911 Jimmy Lawrence played his only full international game, as he stood under the British Home Championship at Goodison Park in the 1-1 draw against England in goal. England secured the title with the result.
Jimmy Lawrence was also politically active and played an important role in building the players' union Association Football Players Union whose president he was from 1921 to 1922. From AFPU later developed into today's Professional Footballers Association.
After his playing career, he coached in 1924, initially for several months to his time the English second division side FC South Shields and then the then financially troubled club Preston North End FC, who populated the lower half of the table at that time. At the end of the season the club was relegated as 21 and thus Penultimate from the then Division II.
In 1925 he joined the German champions from 1910, the Karlsruher FV, where he remained until 1931. He won with the PRR 1925/26, the championship of Württemberg / Baden and 1928, 1929 and 1931 the title of Baden master. This qualified traditional club in those years to participate in the Games at the German Championship, where he underwhelming but each was eliminated in the first round.
Later he returned to Scotland and in 1933 became President of Stranraer FC, but at that time not yet participated in the Scottish league play, 1934, he died there in office.