James Buchan

Infobox football biography name = James Buchan fullname = James Buchan birth_date = 19 April 1881 Buchan remained with the club until April 1904, when he moved to newly promoted English First Division club Woolwich Arsenal. He made just eight appearances during the early months of the 1904–05 season, Buchan remained at Hyde Road for the following seven years and after the heartbreak of relegation to the Second Division at the end of the 1908–09 season, he helped the club to an immediate return to the top-flight at the end of 1909–10. Buchan dropped out of favour during the 1910–11 season and returned to Scotland to finish his career with Motherwell, Kilmarnock, Forfar Athletic and a second spell with St Johnstone,

Personal life On 8 December 1915, during the second year of the First World War, Buchan attested as a reserve private in the Highland Light Infantry. He was mobilised on 28 August 1916 and transferred to the Army Pay Corps a matter of days later. Scottish First Division 21 2 5 2 26 4 1903–04 First Division 8 0 0 0 8 0

1904–05 Scottish First Division 14 1 6 1 20 2

1911–12 Scottish First Division 5 0

5 0 1912–13 Scottish First Division 15 0 0 0 15 0

20 0 0 0 20 0

240 13 22 5 262 18

Honours Hibernian Scottish League First Division: 1902–03 Manchester City Football League Second Division: 1909–10