Background
Carr was born in Maryhill, Glasgow, but started his football career as a youth playing for Watford Orient, before joining Watford as a 14-year-old in 1908.
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Jimmy Carr
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He made his Southern League debut for Watford at the age of 16. He moved to fellow Southern League club, West Ham United, in 1914 and made nine appearances in the 1914-1915 season. During World War I he was enlisted into the Army and played as a guest for Portsmouth and Kilmarnock in the wartime leagues.
At the end of the 1919-1920 season Reading, along with most of the Southern League clubs, formed the Third Division of the Football League.
Carr remained with Reading for four years until moving to Southampton in June 1923. Having played in every match from the start of the 1923-1924 season, a serious knee injury in January, which required an operation, put Carr out for the rest of the season, with Elias MacDonald replacing him.
In the 1925-1926 season, Carr linked up well on the left, firstly with Cliff Price and later with Frank Matthews, before he was released at the end of the season. Now in his mid-thirties, Carr placed an advertisement in the "Athletic News" stating that he wished to "assist a club outside the League in exchange for a business".
This resulted initially in a transfer to Swansea Town where he played briefly before moving to Southall to become the proprietor of the Red Lion Hotel.
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June 26, 1980 (aged 86) -
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