Alec Campbell (footballer)
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Alistair Kenyon Campbell | ||
| Date of birth | 29 May 1890 | ||
| Place of birth | Southampton, England | ||
| Date of death | 16 June 1943 (aged 53) | ||
| Place of death | Cosham, England | ||
| Height | 6 ft 2 in (1.88 m) | ||
| Playing position | Centre-half | ||
| Youth career | |||
| King Edward VI School | |||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 1908–1909 | Southampton | 3 | (0) |
| 1909–1914 | Glossop North End | 10 | (0) |
| 1919–1926 | Southampton | 196 | (15) |
| 1926–1927 | Poole Town | ||
| National team | |||
| England amateur | 1 | (0) | |
| Teams managed | |||
| 1927 | Chesterfield | ||
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* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. |
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* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only.
Alistair Kenyon "Alec" Campbell (29 May 1890 – 16 June 1943) was a professional footballer who played (as a centre-half) nearly 200 games for Southampton in the first quarter of the twentieth century, before briefly becoming manager at Chesterfield.
Campbell was born at South Stoneham to Scottish parents and was educated at King Edward VI Grammar School, Southampton, where he was captain of both the football and cricket elevens. Whilst still at school he played for England at amateur level in an international against Netherlands, the only known occasion that a schoolboy has represented his country at that level.
Before embarking on his career as a footballer, Campbell played seven matches for Hampshire County Cricket Club in 1908 and 1909 as a right-handed batsman.
He was soon spotted by Southampton Football Club and joined them in 1908, making his professional debut in a Southern League match at Millwall on 27 February 1909, as a replacement for Bert Trueman. He "quickly emerged as one of the club's brightest-ever prospects" but, unfortunately for the Saints, in September 1909 he (together with several other amateur internationals) was persuaded to join Samuel Hill-Wood's team at Glossop North End.
He remained at Glossop until January 1914, before returning to The Dell. He had failed to break back into the first team before the outbreak of World War I interrupted his career. During the war he guested for West Ham United as well as turning out regularly for Southampton. Although he was offered terms to join West Ham at the end of the war, he decided to stay in Southampton where he had been offered a directorship with a firm of fruit importers.
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