James Johnston was a Scottish footballer who played as an outside right, mainly for Third Lanark.(Third Lanark player) Johnstone, James, FitbaStats
He won the Scottish Football League championship with the Glasgow club in 1903–04One Hit Wonders: Third Lanark (Scotland), 1903-04, Soccer Stories, 13 January 2014Scotland 1903/04, RSSSF, 21 October 2001 and played in two consecutive Scottish Cup finals, scoring in the first – a win over Rangers in 1905 via a replayFootball. | Scottish Cup–Final Tie., The Glasgow Herald, 17 April 1905 – but losing to Heart of Midlothian in 1906. He also played in England with Swindon Town (then competing in the Southern Football League) for a season,Player Profile Jimmy Johnston, Swindon-Town-FC finding the winning goal in an FA Cup 'giant killing' of Sheffield United,1908, The Giant Killers before returning to Third Lanark for two more years, collecting a Glasgow Cup medalFootball. Glasgow Cup–Replayed Final Tie., The Glasgow Herald, 29 October 1908 to add to two others won in his first spell.Third Lanark v Celtic 3-0 (Glasgow Cup Final: October 25, 1902), Play Up LiverpoolFootball. Glasgow Cup–Final Tie., The Glasgow Herald, 30 November 1903
Johnston was selected once for the Scottish Football League XI in 1903,(SFL player) James Johnstone [merged into the record of Jimmy Johnstone ], London Hearts Supporters Club and played twice in the Glasgow Football Association's annual challenge match against Sheffield.
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