Personal information | |||
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Full name | James Bryce Bennett | ||
Date of birth | 28 May 1891 | ||
Place of birth | Rutherglen, Scotland | ||
Date of death | 24 October 1955(1955-10-24) (aged 64) | ||
Place of death | Hillhead, Scotland | ||
Position(s) | Outside forward | ||
Senior career* | |||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
1910–1914 | Queen's Park | 6 | (0) |
*Club domestic league appearances and goals |
James Bryce Bennett (28 May 1891 – 24 October 1955) was a Scottish amateur footballer who played as an outside forward in the Scottish League for Queen's Park.
Personal life
Bennett's older brother Alec was also a footballer who won League championships with both Celtic and Rangers, and was a Scottish international. Their father Robert was a master draper and amateur poet of some local esteem whose portrait is on display in a Hamilton museum.
In November 1914, three months after Britain's entry into the First World War, Bennett enlisted in the Highland Light Infantry. On 1 July 1916, the first day of the Battle of the Somme, younger brother Robert (a private in the same regiment) was killed. Two weeks later on 15 July, while holding the rank of sergeant, James Bennett received a gunshot wound to the back, but survived. He later worked as a textile manufacturer and died of stomach cancer in 1955, age 64.
Career statistics
Club | Season | League | Scottish Cup | Other | Total | |||||
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Division | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | ||
Queen's Park | 1909–10 | Scottish First Division | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 |
1910–11 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | ||
1913–14 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | ||
Career total | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 7 | 0 |
- Appearances in Glasgow Merchants Charity Cup.
References
- ^ "QPFC.com – A Historical Queen's Park FC Website". www.qpfc.com. Retrieved 11 October 2016.
- ^ "1955 BENNETT, JAMES BRYCE (Statutory registers Deaths 644/13 1241". National Records of Scotland. Retrieved 23 August 2017.
- "Early Days". Alec Bennett (footballer) by David Carmichael. 30 September 2010. Retrieved 1 April 2017.
- "Robert Bennett by David Fulton at Low Parks Museum". Art UK. Retrieved 28 December 2017.
- ^ "Queen's Park And The Great War: 1914 To 1918" (PDF). p. 3. Archived from the original (PDF) on 20 December 2016. Retrieved 13 October 2016.
- "Robert Bennett". Lesley Gaffey's Family Tree. Retrieved 24 October 2024.
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