Jimmy Torrance Explained

Jimmy Torrance
Birth Date:28 July 1889[1]
Birth Place:Coatbridge, Scotland
Height:[2]
Position:Forward
Clubs1:Ashfield
Years2:1910–1926
Clubs2:Fulham
Caps2:335
Goals2:35
Years3:1926–1927
Clubs3:Walsall
Caps3:40
Totalcaps:375
Totalgoals:35
Manageryears1:1927–1928
Managerclubs1:Walsall

James Torrance (28 July 1889 – 2 July 1949) was a Scottish footballer and football manager. He played as a utility forward for Fulham for sixteen years, and also spent two seasons at Walsall, including one season as manager.

Career

Joining Fulham from Ashfield in 1910, he spent 16 years at the club, making a total of 355 league appearances, scoring 35 goals. A utility forward, he played in four different attacking positions for the "Cottagers". For almost the entirety of his time at Craven Cottage, the club were in the Second Division and led by Phil Kelso. Andy Ducat was in charge from 1924 to 1926.

He moved to Walsall in July 1926, and replaced David Ashworth as manager for the 1927–28 campaign. He masterminded a 7–0 win over Coventry City in the Third Division South, and signed David Fairhurst and Moses Lane. Torrance played forty league and cup games for "Saddlers", but the club only avoided applying for re-election by two points, and he left Fellows Park at the end of the season.

Personal life

Torrance worked as a ships' boilermaker in Scotland during the First World War.[3] He later worked for a telephone company and died of cancer in July 1949.

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Past Managers . saddlers.co.uk . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20120601072237/http://www.saddlers.co.uk/page/PastManagers . 1 June 2012 . 14 November 2011.
  2. News: The lure of promotion. Fulham . Athletic News . Manchester . 13 August 1923 . 6.
  3. Web site: Fulham Players and the First World War – University of Wolverhampton . www.wlv.ac.uk . 10 February 2020.