Jimmy Cochrane
Football, Football player
1935 –
Who is Jimmy Cochrane?
James "Jimmy" Cochrane is an English former professional footballer who played in the Football League for Birmingham City and Walsall.
Cochrane was born in Kingswinford, which was then in Staffordshire, and attended Brierley Hill Secondary School. He made his name in schools football, as inside right and playmaker in the Brierley Hill, Sedgley & District Schools team that reached the final of the English Schools' Football Association Trophy in 1951. Cochrane, together with his schools' team captain and future England international Trevor Smith, joined Birmingham City in the summer of 1951, and signed professional forms when he turned 17.
He made his first-team debut on 7 March 1953, aged 17 years 4 months, in the Second Division match at Huddersfield Town which finished 1–1, and kept his place for the next game. On his next appearance, a year later, standing in for Wales international Noel Kinsey, Cochrane scored the opening goal in a 2–0 win home win against West Ham United. His progress was interrupted by his National Service commitment; after two years spent as a cook, he returned to the club overweight and unfit, and never played for the first team again.
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- Born
- Oct 26, 1935
Kingswinford - Nationality
- England
- Lived in
- Kingswinford
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on July 23, 2013
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