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Full name | James Edward Douglas | ||||||||||||||||
Date of birth | January 12, 1898 | ||||||||||||||||
Place of birth | East Newark, New Jersey, U.S. | ||||||||||||||||
Date of death | March 5, 1972 | (aged 74)||||||||||||||||
Place of death | Point Pleasant, New Jersey, U.S. | ||||||||||||||||
Height | 6 ft 1 in (1.86 m)[1] | ||||||||||||||||
Position(s) | Goalkeeper | ||||||||||||||||
Youth career | |||||||||||||||||
1907– | Central Juniors | ||||||||||||||||
Ryerson | |||||||||||||||||
Antlers | |||||||||||||||||
Erie | |||||||||||||||||
Swanson | |||||||||||||||||
Senior career* | |||||||||||||||||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) | ||||||||||||||
1922–1923 | Harrison S.C. | 14 | (0) | ||||||||||||||
1923–1925 | Newark Skeeters | 43 | (0) | ||||||||||||||
1925–1927 | New York Giants | 40 | (0) | ||||||||||||||
1927–1928 | Fall River F.C. | 29 | (0) | ||||||||||||||
1928 | Philadelphia Field Club | 12 | (0) | ||||||||||||||
1928–1929 | Brooklyn Wanderers | 3 | (0) | ||||||||||||||
1929 | Fall River F.C. | 10 | (0) | ||||||||||||||
1929–1930 | New York Nationals | 13 | (0) | ||||||||||||||
1930 | → New York Giants | 24 | (0) | ||||||||||||||
1931 | New York Americans | 7 | (0) | ||||||||||||||
Total | 195 | (0) | |||||||||||||||
International career | |||||||||||||||||
1924–1930 | United States | 9 | (0) | ||||||||||||||
Medal record
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*Club domestic league appearances and goals |
Jimmy Douglas (January 12, 1898 – March 5, 1972) was a U.S. soccer goalkeeper who spent his career in the first American Soccer League (ASL). He earned nine caps with the U.S. national team, making his first appearance for the "Stars and Stripes" at the 1924 Summer Olympics.[2] Notably, he finished his international career at the 1930 FIFA World Cup, where he posted the first "clean sheet" in World Cup history. Douglas was inducted into the National Soccer Hall of Fame in 1953.