Kennedy Jimmy Image 1 Brighton & Hove Albion 1905

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Dundee born left half Jimmy Kennedy began his football career with Dalziel Rovers from where he was signed by Glasgow Celtic in 1902, but he didn’t make the Bhoys’ first eleven and joined Southern League club Brighton & Hove Albion in 1905. He had a single season at The Goldstone Ground, scoring once in 11 matches, before a move to Second Division Leeds City in June 1906. He made his Football League debut against Bradford City that September and scored once in 60 matches for The Peacocks over three seasons before a move to Stockport County in August 1909.

In less than a single season at Edgeley Park he scored once in 20 matches for The Hatters before joining First Division club Tottenham Hotspur in March 1910, where he was very much a fringe player, scoring once in 13 matches before returning to Southern League football with Swindon Town in April 1912. He played 14 matches for Swindon the next season before a move to Norwich City in the 1913 close season, where he only managed 4 matches during the 1913-14 season.

He then joined Watford, captaining them to the Southern League Championship in 1914-15 after his predecessor Alex Stewart enlisted for military service, scoring 3 goals in 51 matches for The Hornets. He played for Brentford during the First World War and played as a guest for Aidrieonians between 1917 and 1919, scoring 8 goals in 58 matches, and played twice for St Mirren in 1919. Upon the resumption of peacetime football in 1919, Kennedy finished his career with a season at Gillingham in 1919-20, making 9 appearances for The Gills. He served as the club’s trainer between 1920 and 1922 and then as trainer for Partick Thistle until his death in 1947,