Ian Lawson (footballer, born 1939)
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Frederick Ian Allison Lawson | ||
| Date of birth | 24 March 1939 | ||
| Place of birth | Ouston, County Durham, England | ||
| Height | 5 ft 11 in (1.80 m) | ||
| Playing position | Forward | ||
| Youth career | |||
| ?–1956 | Burnley | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 1956–1962 | Burnley | 23 | (7) |
| 1962–1965 | Leeds United | 44 | (17) |
| 1965–1966 | Crystal Place | 17 | (6) |
| 1966–1967 | Port Vale | 8 | (0) |
| 1967–1968 | Barnsley | 0 | (0) |
| Total | 92 | (30) | |
| * Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. |
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Frederick Ian Allison Lawson (born 24 March 1939) is an English former professional footballer who played for Burnley, Leeds United, Crystal Palace and Port Vale in the 1950s and 1960s. He scored 34 goals in 99 league games in a 12-year career in the Football League. He won the First Division title with Burnley in 1959–60, and won the Second Division title with Leeds United in 1963–64.
Lawson started his career as an amateur at Burnley after being scouted in a local School's cup final, along with James Robson. Despite some good times, including a purple patch in the "Clarets" 1957 FA Cup run, Lawson found it hard to break into the highly successful first team. During this period Burnley were competing at the top of the First Division, and were crowned champions of the Football League in 1959–60 under the stewardship of Harry Potts. After spending six seasons at Turf Moor, during which he made only 23 appearances, the 23-year-old was sold to Leeds United for £20,000 in March 1962.
He joined Leeds as they battled to avoid relegation to the Third Division and went straight into Don Revie's first team, where he scored once in eleven games. He made a bigger impact during the 1963–64 Second Division promotion season when he scored eleven goals in 24 matches, but his place in the first team was taken by Alan Peacock, who joined Leeds in February 1964, and Lawson made only three further appearances at Elland Road before joining Crystal Palace in June 1966 for a fee of £9,000.Dick Graham's team finished 11th in the Second Division in 1965–66, and Lawson scored six goals in 17 league games at Selhurst Park.
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