Charles Campbell (footballer)
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| Charles Campbell | ||
| Personal information | ||
|---|---|---|
| Date of birth | unknown | |
| Place of birth | Coupar Angus, Scotland | |
| Date of death | April 1927 | |
| Place of death | Northern Ireland | |
| Playing position | Midfield | |
| Senior clubs1 | ||
| Years | Club | App (Gls)* |
| 1870-18?? | Queen's Park | |
| National team2 | ||
| 1874-1886 | Scotland | 13 (1) |
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1 Senior club appearances and goals |
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Charles Campbell was a Scottish footballer of the 1870s and 1880s who played for, and captained, Queen's Park and the Scotland national team.
Campbell, a former pupil of the Edinburgh Academy, joined Queen's Park, Scotland's oldest football club, in 1870[1]. He won 8 Scottish Cup winners medals with the club and was runner-up in the 1884 and 1885 FA Cup finals[1]. He was also a member of the famous English amateur side Corinthians.[2]
Campbell earned 13 caps for Scotland between 1874 and 1886, captaining them on nine occasions. He scored his only Scotland goal in a 2-0 win over Wales in March 1877 and lost only one match while playing for his country.
Campbell, a keen orator, was also an important football bureaucrat, serving on the Queens Park committee between 1874 and 1890 and holding the position of club president in 1879-80. He was elected President of the Scottish Football Association for the 1889-90 season.
Campbell died in Ireland, to which he had strong family connections, in 1927.[2] He was posthumously inducted into the Scottish Football Hall of Fame in 2005[1].
[edit] References
- ^ a b c "Current crisis at Ibrox can't deny McLeish a place in Hall of Fame", The Scotsman.
- ^ a b Lamming, Douglas (1987). A Scottish Soccer Internationalists Who’s Who, 1872-1986 (Hardback), Hutton Press. (ISBN 0-907033-47-4).
