Bob Ramsay

Bob Ramsay
Personnel
Surname	David Robert Ramsay
birthday	1864
place of birth	Stoke-on-Trent ,  England
position	Center runner , outside runner (right), defender (right)
Men's
Years	station	Games (goals) 1
1886-1888	Burslem Port Vale	0 (0)
1888-1890	FC Stoke	43 (4)
1890-1891	Newton Heath	22 (5)
1891-1892	West Manchester
1892-1893	Northwich Victoria	29 (4)
1893-1894	Burslem Port Vale	16 (0)
1 Only league games are given.

David Robert "Bob" Ramsay (* 1864 in Stoke-on-Trent ; † unknown) was an English football player . Ramsay played a total of 88 games in the Football League for three different clubs between 1888 and 1894 .

Career

Bob Ramsay joined Burslem Port Vale in April 1886 and was a defense regular for two years. The club had had professional status since 1885, but a league operation did not yet exist and, in addition to cup competitions, the majority of the games consisted of friendly games. In 1888, the Football League, the first twelve-team league, started playing in Northern England and Ramsay moved to local rivals FC Stoke in that league. Ramsay was a regular player in the 1888/89 and 1889/90 seasons and completed 43 of 44 possible league games, but Stoke ended both seasons with four and three season wins in the last place in the table. One of the few highlights at the Victoria Ground experienced the audience on March 1, 1890, when Accrington FC were defeated 7-1 and Ramsay contributed three goals to this success. Stoke had to ask the regulations of the time at the end of each season for resumption, while this was crowned with success in 1889, the new entrant AFC Sunderland received more support in 1890 and Stoke had to leave the league after two years.

For Ramsay this was also the end of his time at Stoke and he moved to Manchester to Newton Heath in the Football Alliance , in which Stoke also played that season. Ramsay played there in 1890/91 as a middle runner in all 22 games of the season and scored five goals. In the summer of 1891 he left Newton Heath again and appeared six months later at West Manchester in the Lancashire League , but his stay there was short-lived and for the 1892/93 season he was for Northwich Victoria in the debut season of the Football League Second Division active. After 29 games for Northwich, he returned in October 1893 to Burslem Port Vale, who now also played in the Second Division of the Football League and played 16 league games until the end of the season. During the break of the season, his contract was not renewed due to knee problems and nothing is known about his whereabouts.

literature

• Michael Joyce: Football League Players' Records 1888 to 1939 . 2nd revised edition. Soccerdata, Nottingham 2004, ISBN 1-899468-67-6 , pp. 215 .
• Garth Dykes: The United Alphabet - A Complete Who's Who of Manchester United FC ACL & Polar Publishing Ltd., Leicester 1994, ISBN 0-9514862-6-8 , pp. 312 .
• Jeff Kent: Port Vale Personalities - A Biographical Dictionary of Players, Officials and Supporters . Witan Books, Stafford 1996, ISBN 0-9529152-0-0 , pp. 244 f .