Jimmy Hannah
With Sunderland in 1894
Personal information
Full name James Hannah[1]
Date of birth (1869-03-17)17 March 1869[2]
Place of birth Glasgow, Scotland[1]
Date of death 1 December 1917(1917-12-01) (aged 48)[1]
Place of death Sunderland, England
Position(s) Winger
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1888–1889 Third Lanark 0 (0)
1889–1891 Sunderland Albion
1891–1897 Sunderland 152 (68)
1897–1899 Third Lanark 23 (3)
1899–1900 Queens Park Rangers 17 (2)
1900 Dykehead
1901 Sunderland Royal Rovers
International career
1889 Scotland 1 (0)
1891 Football Alliance XI 1 (0)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

James Hannah (17 March 1869 – 1 December 1917) was a Scottish footballer who played for Sunderland and the Scotland national team as a winger.

Football career

Hannah signed for Sunderland Albion from Third Lanark,[3] and thereafter moved to Sunderland where he made his debut on 3 October 1891 against Everton in a 2–1 win at Newcastle Road.[4] He played for the Wearsiders between 1891 and 1897 and won English League championship medals in 1893 and 1895 (teammates included David Hannah, no relation). His goalscoring record in the FA Cup was noteworthy, as he scored 10 times in 16 games in the competition,[5] including a hat-trick in Sunderland's record 11–1 win over Fairfield F.C. on 2 February 1895 in the first round.[6] Overall in his spell at Sunderland, he played in 152 league games and scored 69 goals.[7] After ending his time with Sunderland in the 1896–97 season he returned to Scotland to play for Third Lanark again, before returning south once more to play for Queen's Park Rangers.[8][9]

While in his first spell with Third Lanark, Hannah made his sole Scotland appearance against Wales on 15 April 1889 in a 0–0 draw at The Racecourse Ground.[10] After moving to England, he became ineligible under the Scottish Football Association's policy of the time which forbade England-based professionals from being selected. The rule was relaxed in 1896 and Hannah took part in the first Home Scots v Anglo-Scots trial match,[11] but this did not lead to a recall for the full team.[2] He made one representative appearance for the Football Alliance XI (the league in which Sunderland Albion played) in 1891.[12]

Personal life

He married Isabella Potts in 1890 in Sunderland, and the couple produced four children, including Mary, Annie and James. His life after football was spent on Wearside, where he became licensee of the Smyrna Hotel. He thereafter worked for Messrs Reid & Co. for 15 years.[8]

References

  1. 1 2 3 Jimmy Hannah at the English National Football Archive (subscription required)
  2. 1 2 Mitchell, Andy (2021). The men who made Scotland: The definitive Who's Who of Scottish Football Internationalists 1872-1939. Amazon. ISBN 9798513846642.
  3. ↑ John Litster (October 2012). "A Record of pre-war Scottish League Players". Scottish Football Historian magazine.
  4. ↑ "Sunderland 2-1 Everton". The Stat Cat. Archived from the original on 17 May 2008. Retrieved 30 July 2008.
  5. ↑ "Jimmy Hannah". A Love Supreme. Retrieved 30 July 2008.
  6. ↑ "Sunderland 11-1 Fairfield". The Stat Cat. Archived from the original on 5 July 2008. Retrieved 30 July 2008.
  7. ↑ "Jimmy Hannah". The Stat Cat. Archived from the original on 20 February 2012. Retrieved 30 July 2008.
  8. 1 2 "Death of Jimmy Hannah". Newcastle Daily Journal. 3 December 1917. p. 7. Retrieved 27 August 2023 – via Newspapers.com.
  9. ↑ Seasonal Stats | 1899/1900, QPRnet
  10. ↑ "Mon 15 Apr 1889 Wales 0 Scotland 0". London Hearts. Retrieved 30 July 2008.
  11. ↑ Football. International Trial Matches., The Glasgow Herald, 26 March 1896
  12. ↑ Football Alliance v Football League, 20 April 1891, 11v11.com [listed as David Hannah who never played in the Alliance.]
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