James Johnston (1900s footballer)
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| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Position(s) | Outside right | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 1901–1907 | Third Lanark | 119 | (47) |
| 1907–1908 | Swindon Town | 34 | (4) |
| 1908–1910 | Third Lanark | 47 | (12) |
| Total | 200 | (63) | |
| International career | |||
| 1903 | Scottish League XI | 1 | (0) |
| *Club domestic league appearances and goals | |||
James Johnston[a] was a Scottish footballer who played as an outside right, mainly for Third Lanark.[1][2]
He won the Scottish Football League championship with the Glasgow club in 1903–04[3][4] and played in two consecutive Scottish Cup finals, scoring in the first – a win over Rangers in 1905 via a replay[5] – but losing to Heart of Midlothian in 1906.[6] He also played in England with Swindon Town (then competing in the Southern Football League) for a season,[7] finding the winning goal in an FA Cup 'giant killing' of Sheffield United,[8] before returning to Third Lanark for two more years, collecting a Glasgow Cup medal[9] to add to two others won in his first spell.[10][11]
Johnston was selected once for the Scottish Football League XI in 1903,[12] and played twice in the Glasgow Football Association's annual challenge match against Sheffield.[1]
