Johnny Campbell (football player, 1870)
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| Personnel | ||
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| Surname | John Middleton Campbell | |
| birthday | February 19, 1870 | |
| place of birth | Renton , Scotland | |
| date of death | June 8, 1906 | |
| Place of death | Sunderland , England | |
| position | Center Forward | |
| Men's | ||
| Years | station | Games (goals) 1 |
| Renton Union | ||
| Renton FC | ||
| 1890-1897 | Sunderland AFC | 186 (133) |
| 1897-1898 | Newcastle United | 23 ( 9) |
| 1 Only league games are given. | ||
John Middleton "Johnny" Campbell (born February 19, 1870 in Renton , † June 8, 1906 in Sunderland ) was a Scottish football player .
Career
The center forward won the Scottish Cup with Renton FC in 1888 and moved to the English Football League for Sunderland AFC in 1890 . There he celebrated great success and in the years 1892, 1893 and 1895 won the three English championships and the title of best league shooter.
Campbell first played for Renton Union in his hometown before joining Renton FC, which had one of the best Scottish football teams in the 1880s. He won the Scottish Cup there shortly before his 18th birthday with a 6-1 final victory against FC Cambuslang on February 4, 1888, with Harry Campbell in the left half-forward position - later two-time English cup winner at the Blackburn Rovers - another Campbell was in the formation of Renton FC. Although the Scottish club could feel after a 4-1 win on May 19, 1888 against the English cup winner West Bromwich Albion as an "unofficial world champion", Johnny Campbell 1890 moved to England. Like many Scots at the time, he followed the call of the English Football League, which had been founded two years earlier.
His choice fell on the AFC Sunderland , which took part in the football league for the first time in the 1890/91 season . Campbell had previously made his debut in the FA Cup , but it was lost to Blackburn Rovers 2: 4 on January 16, 1890. Right off the bat, Sunderland AFC took seventh place in the league with twelve teams and with 19 league goals Campbell already indicated his above-average risk of scoring, which was particularly evident on October 25, 1890 with four goals for a 5-2 away win against Bolton Wanderers and three goals on January 10, 1891 for a 6-1 win over Aston Villa . Campbell was henceforth as a robust player in the center of the storm, the spearhead of a young team that had an above-average attack line with Jimmy Millar , Davy Hannah , John Scott and from 1891 still with Jimmy Hannah . The team, known as the "Team of All the Talents", won three English championships in the four years that followed until 1895 and in 1894 finished second behind Aston Villa. Campell contributed 32 league goals to the success in the first championship year of 1892 and thus achieved the highest yield of all top scorer in the history of the Football League. After he reached the "30-goal sound limit" in the 1892/93 season, a comparatively low number of 18 goals followed in the runner-up season of 1893/94 . Although he was able to achieve a comparatively few 21 championship goals in the 1894/95 season , this was enough for his third title of best league hunter.
Campbell - and Sunderland AFC as a whole - had passed their zenith after 1895. The fact that a "Johnny Campell" was able to enter the list of top scorer in the 1895/96 season was due to the fact that Aston Villa's namesake John James Campbell had scored the most goals with 26 goals. John Middleton Campbell, on the other hand, had only scored 15 goals and after another season with a minimal yield of four goals and the penultimate place in the league, Campbell's days at Sunderland AFC, where his brother Robert Campbell was the coach between 1896 and 1899 , were numbered . With his 133 first division goals, however, he should be the best Scottish goalscorer in the top English division in the 19th century and only Steve Bloomer and John Devey , who, however, played significantly more games, exceeded Campbell's overall yield during this time.
Campbell moved in 1897 for 40 pounds transfer fee in the second-rate Second Division to Newcastle United . In the "Magpies" he scored nine more goals in 23 league games and helped the club to rise to the First Division through the runner-up. After an internal dispute within the club, he left the club after a short time and should not return to the professional league.
successes
- English master: 1892, 1893, 1895
- Scottish FA Cup Winner : 1888
- Football League (First Division) top scorer: 1892, 1893, 1895
literature
- Michael Joyce: Football League Players' Records. 1888 to 1939. 4Edge, Hockley, Essex 2004, ISBN 1-899468-67-6 , p. 47.
- Garth Dykes, Doug Lamming: All the Lads - A Complete Who's Who of Sunderland AFC Polar Print Group, Leicester 2000, ISBN 1-899538-15-1 , pp. 67 .
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| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Campbell, Johnny |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Campbell, John Middleton |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | scottish soccer player |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 19, 1870 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Renton |
| DATE OF DEATH | June 8, 1906 |
| Place of death | Sunderland |