Personal information | |||
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Date of birth | 11 October 1880 | ||
Place of birth | Alyth, Perthshire, Scotland | ||
Date of death | 18 November 1949 | (aged 69)||
Playing position | Left back | ||
Youth career | |||
East Craigie | |||
Senior career* | |||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
1899–1904 | Dundee | ||
1904–1905 | Fulham | ||
1905–1908 | Woolwich Arsenal | 103 | (4) |
1908–1909 | Rangers | ||
1909–1912 | Fulham | ||
1912–1915 | Chelsea | ||
1915–1916 | Dundee Hibernian | ||
1920 | Fulham | 1 | (1) |
National team | |||
1902–1903 | Scottish League XI | 2 | (0) |
1904–1909 | Scotland | 5 | (0) |
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. |
Jimmy Sharp (11 October 1880 – 18 November 1949) was a Scottish international football player.
Born in Alyth, Perthshire, Sharp began his career with East Craigie and then joined Dundee in 1899. There he was a regular at left back in his five seasons there, where he earned a Scottish First Division runners-up medal in 1902-03 and made his debut for Scotland against Wales on 12 March 1904. In 1904 he moved south of the border to Fulham, who were then in the Southern League.
A year later, in 1905 he was snapped up by Woolwich Arsenal of the First Division and promptly became a regular in the side after making his debut against Liverpool on 2 September 1905. He missed only three league games in his first season and reached the FA Cup semi-finals twice in his first two seasons. At Arsenal Sharp also won another three Scotland caps, before Rangers prised him away in April 1908 for £400. In total he played 116 games for Arsenal, scoring 5 goals.
His spell at Rangers only lasted nine months before he moved back to London again, rejoining Fulham for a transfer fee of £1,000. He spent another four seasons at Craven Cottage, winning a final Scotland cap, against Wales on 1 March 1909, to bring his total to five. Sharp then joined Fulham's local rivals Chelsea, before leaving upon the cancellation of league football in 1915 due to World War I.