James Johnston[a] was a Scottish footballer who played as an outside right, mainly for Third Lanark.
[1][2] He won the Scottish Football League championship with the Glasgow club in 1903–04[3][4] and played in two consecutive Scottish Cup finals, scoring in the first – a win over Rangers in 1905 via a replay[5] – but losing to Heart of Midlothian in 1906.
[6] He also played in England with Swindon Town (then competing in the Southern Football League) for a season,[7] finding the winning goal in an FA Cup 'giant killing' of Sheffield United,[8] before returning to Third Lanark for two more years, collecting a Glasgow Cup medal[9] to add to two others won in his first spell.
[10][11] Johnston was selected once for the Scottish Football League XI in 1903,[12] and played twice in the Glasgow Football Association's annual challenge match against Sheffield.
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