Personal information | |||
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Full name | James Lofthouse [1] | ||
Date of birth | 24 March 1894 | ||
Place of birth | St Helens, England | ||
Date of death | 15 July 1954[2] | (aged 60)||
Place of death | Windsor, England [2] | ||
Height | 5 ft 8 in (1.73 m) [3] | ||
Position(s) | Outside left | ||
Senior career* | |||
Years | Team | Apps | ( Gls) |
Windmill Villa | |||
Cabbage Hall | |||
Parr Rovers | |||
–1913 | St Helens Recreation | ||
1913 | Stalybridge Celtic | ||
1913–1920 | Reading | ||
1920–1923 | The Wednesday | 95 | (13) |
1923 | Rotherham County | 26 | (7) |
1923–1926 | Bristol Rovers | 105 | (16) |
1926–1928 | Queens Park Rangers | 80 | (27) |
1928–1930 | Aldershot | 81 | (27) |
1934 | GPO (Reading) | ||
*Club domestic league appearances and goals |
James Lofthouse (24 March 1894 – 1954) was an English professional footballer who played as an outside left in the Football League for The Wednesday, Rotherham County, Bristol Rovers and Queens Park Rangers. [1] [4]
In early life, Lofthouse worked as a sand wheeler. [2] He served as a sergeant in the Royal Berkshire Regiment and the Labour Corps during the First World War. [5] [6] [7] Lofthouse later worked as a steward at the Tilehurst Constitutional Club, as a postman and as a pub landlord in Aldershot. [2]
Club | Season | League | FA Cup | Other | Total | |||||
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Division | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | ||
The Wednesday | 1920–21 [8] | Second Division | 36 | 3 | 2 | 0 | — | 38 | 3 | |
1921–22 [8] | 42 | 8 | 1 | 0 | — | 43 | 8 | |||
1922–23 [8] | 17 | 2 | 0 | 0 | — | 17 | 2 | |||
Total | 95 | 13 | 3 | 0 | — | 98 | 13 | |||
Queens Park Rangers | 1926–27 [9] | Third Division South | 42 | 14 | — | 2 [a] | 1 | 44 | 15 | |
1927–28 [10] | 38 | 13 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 39 | 13 | ||
Total | 80 | 27 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 83 | 28 | ||
Career total | 175 | 40 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 181 | 41 |