James Brown

James Brown (17 June 1869 – 11 January 1924) was a Scottish footballer who played in the Football League for Aston Villa and Leicester Fosse.

Career Brown began his senior career with local club Renton, The younger replacements also performed strongly, winning a Glasgow Merchants Charity Cup and being invited to join the Scottish Football League in its first season of 1890–91, only for the Dunbartonshire club and its players to be expelled from the competition for matters relating to professionalism.

Brown soon signed for English Football League club Aston Villa along with former Renton teammate George Campbell; at the time of the 1891 census the pair were lodging together in Birmingham along with Jimmy Cowan who had come from the same district in Scotland. While Cowan went on to great success with Villa, Campbell and Brown remained on the fringes of the team (neither played in the 1892 FA Cup Final), both leaving the club and going their separate ways during 1893 (Campbell joined Dundee). Now in his 30s, in 1899 he joined Loughborough before his retiral from playing;