Toner: James (Jimmy)
1954-1955
(Player Details)
Outside Right
Born: Shettleston, Glasgow: 23-08-1924
Debut: Hull City (a): 21-08-1954
5’6” 11st 12lb (1954)
Toner enjoyed a fairly productive career in Scottish football before trying his luck at
Leeds. He attended St Mungo’s Academy in Glasgow and won a Scottish Junior Cup-winners’
medal with Fauldhouse United before joining Dundee in 1949. With the Dens Park club he won a
Scottish League Cup-winners’ medal in 1952 and again in 1953. He scored fourteen goals in
fifty-one games while at Dundee. He first caught Major Buckley’s eye but was signed by
Buckley’s successor, Raich Carter, in June 1954, after Leeds beat off competition from Hull
City. He started the first few games of the season but failed to hold his place and with the
return of George Meek his chances were further limited. He left United at the end of the
1954-55 season and returned north of the border where he played with Motherwell. He only
made one appearance at Fir Park before moving on to Forfar Athletic at the end of the season,
where he did not make the first team. Toner was also a noted golfer. He was seriously injured
and his wife, Christine, was one of the two passengers killed in January 2007, when the
Scotland-bound coach they were travelling on overturned in London.