Season #2 | 1880-81 | Games #3 - #6
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Player #135
Appearances:
70
Starts:
70
Goals:
6
Seasons:
5
Source: 1902-03 Aston Villa Team Portrait.
Source: 1902-03 Aston Villa Team Portrait.
Bobby Templeton
Position
Forward
From
1898-99
To
1902-03
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Bobby Templeton
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Seasons
Age*
19 | 20 | 21 | 22 | 23 |
Division
D1 | D1 | D1 | D1 | D1 |
Appearances
70 |
1 | 12 | 20 | 26 | 11 |
Starts
70 |
1 | 12 | 20 | 26 | 11 |
Substitute
0 |
0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Unused
0 |
0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Goals
6 |
0 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
*Age on opening day of the season
FAC: FA Cup; FL: Football League; D1: Division 1; D2: Division 2; D3: Division 3; PL: Premier League; CH: Championship
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Robert Bryson Templeton
Birth Date
Monday, 29 March 1880
Birth Place
Coylton, South Ayrshire
Birth Country
Scotland
Villa Youth
n/a
From
Transfer in
Kilmarnock Rugby XV
From
For
£250
On
Unknown
Previous Clubs
Irvine Heatherall |
Westmount Juveniles |
Kilmarnock Roslyn |
Neilston Victoria |
Kilmarnock Rugby XV |
Loans Out
None
Transfer Out
To
Newcastle United
For
£400
On
1903
Subsequent Clubs
Newcastle United |
Source: 1902-03 Aston Villa Team Portrait.
Source: 1902-03 Aston Villa Team Portrait.
Villa Career
Seasons Active, Fee, Starts (Sub) | Goals |
1899-03 £250, 70 | 6 |
STARTS
SUBS
GOALS
Played Under
George Ramsay led Management Committee
First Squad Appearance
Saturday, 1 April 1899
Debut Appearance
Saturday, 1 April 1899
Sunderland (a), Division One
DEBUT
First Goal
Saturday, 25 November 1899
Final Appearance
Thursday, 1 January 1903
Sheffield Wednesday (a), Division One
FINAL
Final Squad Appearance
Thursday, 1 January 1903
Honours
1898-99 League Champions |
1899-00 League Champions |
Height
Foot
International Team
Scotland
Died
2 November 1919, Aged 39
Bobby Templeton
Player #135 for Aston Villa, Robert Bryson Templeton, known as Bobby Templeton played as a midfielder for the club in a position then known as wing half.
Bobby represented Villa between 1898-99 and 1902-03.
Bobby was born in Coylton, Scotland on 29 March 1880 and made his debut for the club as a 19 year old on the 1st April 1899.
Villa had signed Bobby from Kilmarnock Rugby XV for £250 and he went on to appear 70 time for the club.
During his time with the Villa, Bobby won 2 League titles in 1898-99 & 1899-00.
The Villa News and Record of 1st September 1906 paid tribute to Bobby:
“Quite a genius on his day, playing a winning game to perfection. His best efforts came in brilliant intermittent flashes, but he could not always be relied upon to produce his highest form. Speedy and clever, he delighted in showing his tricks against weaker defenders. In big games he was invariably dangerous, possessing as he did the capacity for pulling a match ‘out of the fire’ at the most unexpected moments. Free and open-handed, he might take the game more seriously with advantage.”
“For quite a long time after going to the Villa he held his place as the most popular man in the side amongst the crowd. He had shown sufficient of his best form to make the weekly spectator long for more … Given the humour and the opportunity he would set the crowd in a roar. His cleverness prompted him to the most audacious limits of trickery, and not satisfied with beating his man once, and even twice, he must needs return a third time to the fray often [it seemed] for mere self-gratification and self-glorification. By-and-by, a reaction set in. The crowd wanted goals; the club needed consistency.” Although Sir Fred Wall (FA President to 1934) considered Bobby to have been one of the finest players he had ever seen, Bobby’s inconsistent play led him to leaving the Villa. The Scottish international went on to serve Newcastle - paying Villa £400 for his services - then Woolwich Arsenal, and subsequently returned to his native Scotland to play for Glasgow Rangers.“
Bobby’s final appearance had come for Villa on 1st January 1903.
Bobby played under the George Ramsay led Management Committee.
Bobby passed away in Kilmarnock on 2nd November 1919 aged just 39.