John Cameron
Scottish footballer and manager
Died when: 63 years 7 days (756 months)Star Sign: Aries
John Cameron (13 April 1872 – 20 April 1935) was a Scottish footballer and manager.He played as a forward for Queen's Park, Everton and Scotland and was noted as an effective goal-maker and goalscorer.
In 1899 he became player-manager at Tottenham Hotspur and guided them to victory in the 1901 FA Cup.As a result, they became the only club outside the English Football League to win the competition.
In 1898 he became the first secretary of the Association Footballers' Union, which was the ill-fated fore-runner of the Professional Footballers' Association.
He later coached Dresdner SC and during the First World War he was interned at Ruhleben, a civilian detention camp in Germany.
After the war he coached Ayr United for one season and then became a football journalist, author and publisher.He had previously worked as a columnist for various newspapers before the war.
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