Jimmy Lawson (footballer)
James Samson Lawson was a Scottish footballer who played as a right back, primarily for Dundee. He was part of the squad which won the Scottish Cup in 1910 and was selected to play for the Scottish Football League XI in 1912. After a one-year spell at Airdrieonians he quit the game in 1914 and moved to the United States to become a professional golfer, where over a long career he was a football coach for Lehigh University and Bethlehem Steel, worked as a golf club manufacturer, and was country club pro in Chicago, Flint, Texas and Indianapolis, before retiring to Florida. He also served in the Canadian Army in World War I and in the U.S. Army in World War II.
Two of his brothers, Fred and Herbert also moved to America to play golf professionally.
