John Fleming (footballer, born 1889)

{{short description|Scottish footballer}}

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{{Infobox football biography

| name = John Fleming

| fullname = John Barr Murray Fleming{{Cite web |title=Newcastle United Footballers in the Great War |url=http://www.newmp.org.uk/article.php?categoryid=100&articleid=1421&displayorder=63 |access-date=24 October 2019 |website=North East War Memorials Project}}

| birth_date = 27 December 1889{{Lives of WWI|id=7686835}}

| birth_place = Slamannan, Scotland

| death_date = {{death date and age|1916|3|21|1889|12|27|df=y}}

| death_place = Richmond Camp, England

| height = 5ft 8in{{Cite book |last=Goodwin |first=Bob |title=The Spurs Alphabet |date=16 August 2017 |isbn=978-0-9540434-2-1 |pages=155–156 |language=en}}

| position = Right half, forward

| years1 = 1907–1908

| clubs1 = Musselburgh Union

| caps1 =

| goals1 =

| years3 = 1908–1909

| clubs3 = Bonnyrigg Rose Athletic

| caps3 =

| goals3 =

| years4 = 1909–1911

| clubs4 = St Bernard's

| caps4 = 30

| goals4 = 19

| years5 = 1911–1913

| clubs5 = Newcastle United

| caps5 = 4

| goals5 = 0

| years6 = 1913–1915

| clubs6 = Tottenham Hotspur

| caps6 = 19

| goals6 = 3

| years7 = 1915

| clubs7 = Armadale

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| goals7 =

| years8 = 1915

| clubs8 = Rangers

| caps8 = 4

| goals8 = 1

}}

John Barr Murray Fleming (27 December 1889 – 21 March 1916) was a Scottish professional footballer who played in the Scottish League for St Bernard's and Rangers as a right half and forward.{{Cite web |title=John Fleming |url=http://www.footballandthefirstworldwar.org/john-fleming-footballer/ |access-date=8 January 2016 |website=Football and the First World War}} He also played in the Football League for Tottenham Hotspur and Newcastle United.{{Cite book |last=Joyce |first=Michael |title=Football League Players' Records 1888 to 1939 |publisher=Tony Brown |year=2012 |isbn=978-1905891610 |location=Nottingham |page=100}}{{Cite web |title=To The Glory of God |url=https://www.nufc.co.uk/club/history/united-and-the-great-war/to-the-glory-of-god |access-date=8 March 2019 |website=Newcastle United Football Club |language=en}}