PETER GERALD AITKEN
b 30.6.1954 Penarth. 6’; 10 st 11 lbs D.Début: 29.8.72 v Chesterfield
Career: 1967 BRISTOL ROVERS (professional, 4.7.72) [230+4,3]; 30.11.80 BRISTOL CITY [41,1] Only one man has captained both Bristol’s professional clubs in the Football League.
JOB AYO AKINDE
b 8.7.1989 Gravesend 6’ 2”; 13 st 9 lbs F Début: 4.9.10 v Oldham Athletic
Career: BRISTOL CITY [1+15,1]; 27.8.10 BRISTOL ROVERS (loan) [9+5,0];
JOHN ROBERT ANDERSON
b 9.11.1924 Durham d 14.11.1994 Bristol 6’ 2½”; 14 st GK Début: 11.4.53 v Watford
Career: 12.3.53 BRISTOL ROVERS [10,0]; 5.11.54 BRISTOL CITY [106,0]; 1960 Avon Federation Boys’ Club (coach);
WAYNE MICHAEL HILL ANDREWS
b 25.11.1977 Paddington 5’ 10”; 11 st 2 lbs F Début: 29.3.08 v Yeovil Town
Career: BRISTOL CITY (loan) [3+4,2]; 27.3.08 BRISTOL ROVERS (loan) [1,0];
JOSEPH GREENE ANYINSAH
b 8.10.1984 Bristol 5’ 8”; 12 st 5 lbs W Début: 6.8.11 v AFC Wimbledon
Career: 1994 BRISTOL CITY (professional, 1.7.01) [2+5,0]; 6.7.11 BRISTOL ROVERS (free) [47+15,8];
CHRISTOPHER GEORGE BALL
b 31.10.1906 Leek d 1.2.1987 Great Barr, Birmingham 5’ 8½”; 11 st 2 lbs IR Début: 30.8.30 v Northampton Town
Career 1.7.30 BRISTOL ROVERS (£10) [15,0]; 4.12.31 BRISTOL CITY [3,0
PETER CLIFFORD WILLIAM JAMES BEADLE
b 13.5.1972 Lambeth 6’; 11 st 12 lbs F Début: 18.11.95 v Wycombe Wanderers
Career: 17.11.95 BRISTOL ROVERS (£50,000) [98+11], 19.10.99 BRISTOL CITY (£200,000) [51+31,14];
LLEWELLYN BOOTH
b 28.2.1912 Merthyr Tydfil d JFM 1984 Swansea IR
Career: 12.11.36 BRISTOL CITY (£350) [65,22]; Appeared in one game for Rovers in the 1939-40
THOMAS ALFRED BOUCHER
b 1874 West Bromwich d 17.7.1960 Sodbury Début: 1.9.00 v Queen’s Park Rangers
Career: 4.5.99 Bedminster; 7.5.00 BRISTOL ROVERS; 1.8.01 BRISTOL CITY [51,14];
ALBERT BUTTERWORTH
b 20.3.1912 Ashton-under-Lyne d January 1991 Ashton-under-Lyne 5’ 8½”; 11 st 6 lbs OR Début: 14.11.36 v Luton Town
Career: 13.11.36 BRISTOL ROVERS [95,12]; BRISTOL CITYplayed in Wartime football.
ROBERT CALDWELL
b July 1909 South Kirkby WH
Career: South Kirkby Colliery; August 1933 Doncaster Rovers [3,0]; May 1936 BRISTOL CITY [39,3]; 1939 BRISTOL ROVERS scored three goals in 21 appearances for Rovers in the 1939-40 wartime season.
LANCE LANYON CARR
b 18.2.1910 Johannesburg, South Africa d 28.4.1983 Greenwich 5’ 9”; 12 st OL Début: 31.8.46 v Reading
Career: Johannesburg Calies; Boksburg FC; 11.9.33 Liverpool [31,8]; 9.10.36 Newport County; August 1937 South Liverpool; 15.7.38 Newport County [64,14]; 30.7.46 BRISTOL ROVERS [42,8]; 17.7.47 Merthyr Tydfil (free). Played wartime football for BRISTOL CITY
TIMOTHY DOUGLAS CARTER
b 5.10.1967 Bristol d 19.6.2008 Stretford 6’ 2”; 13 st 11 lbs GK Début: 28.12.85 v Reading
Career: 1984 BRISTOL ROVERS (professional, 8.10.85) [47,0]; 14.12.87 Newport County (loan) [1,0]; 24.12.87 Sunderland (£50,000) [37,0]; 18.3.88 Carlisle United (loan) [4,0]; 15.9.88 BRISTOL CITY (loan) [3,0]; 21.11.91 Birmingham City (loan) [2,0]; 13.8.93 Hartlepool United (free) [18,0]; 3.1.94 Millwall (loan); 24.3.94 Millwall (free); 4.8.95 Blackpool (loan); 18.8.95 Oxford United (free) [4,0]; 6.12.95 Millwall (free) [62,0]; 13.7.98 Halifax Town (free) [9+1,0]; 12.6.03 Sunderland (first-team goalkeeping coach);
ALEC RAYMOND CASHLEY
b 23.10.1951 Bristol 5’ 11”; 12 st 12 lbs GK Début: 26.12.83 v Oxford United
Career: BRISTOL CITY (professional, September 1970) [227,1]; 8.1.81 Hereford United (loan) [20,0]; July 1982 Clevedon Town; 16.8.82 BRISTOL ROVERS (free) [53,0]; 22.7.85 Trowbridge Town (free); 11.10.85 Chester [9,0]; 1986 Bury (loan);
FREDERICK JOHN CHAPPLE
b JFM 1884 Eastville, Bristol d AMJ 1965 IL
Career: Eastville Commercial School; 1903 Blaina; 1904 Ebbw Vale; 1905 Treharris Boys’ Club; 20.4.06 Aston Villa [9,3]; 4.12.08 Birmingham [50,15]; 10.6.10 Crewe Alexandra; 14.8.12 Brentford; 6.6.13 BRISTOL CITY [20,10]; 1915 Blyth Spartans; 25.8.20 Douglas Motors. With Rovers, Chapple scored four goals during the unofficial First World War football seasons.
DAVID CLARKSON
b 10.9.1985 Bellshill 5’ 10”; 11 st 9 lbs F Début: 18.8.12 v Oxford United
Career: Motherwell (professional, 1.7.02); 29.6.09 BRISTOL CITY (£800,000) [27+36,11]; 15.9.11 Brentford (loan) [4,1]; 27.7.12 BRISTOL ROVERS [58+11,12]; 5.7.14 Motherwell (trial); 8.9.14 Dundee (free) [18+5,8]; 25.6.15 Motherwell (free) [165+61,49]; 27.1.16 St Mirren (loan) [12,1].
PHILIP RAYMOND COGGINS
b 20.7.1940 Bristol 5’ 6½”; 9 st 9 lbs OR Début: 10.9.60 v Scunthorpe United
Career: Southville School; Redcliffe School; Dorset House Boys’ Club; October 1958 BRISTOL CITY [4,0]; July 1960 BRISTOL ROVERS [4,0]; 4.7.61 Wellington Town (free); September 1962 Taunton Town; Trowbridge Town; Glastonbury.
DANIEL RICHARD COLES
b 30.10.1981 Bristol 6’ 1”; 12 st 8 lbs CD Début: 3.11.07 v Bournemouth
Career: Stoke Lane; BRISTOL CITY (professional, 1.8.99) [141+7,6]; 26.7.05 Hull City (£200,000) [26+5,0]; 1.10.07 Hartlepool United (loan) [3,0]; 1.11.07 BRISTOL ROVERS (loan); 8.1.08 BRISTOL ROVERS (free) [102,3]; 11.6.11 Exeter City (free) [111+3,8]; 5.8.14 Forest Green Rovers (free; retired, 2.9.15).
WILLIAM ALFRED COMPTON
b 5.4.1896 Bedminster d 29.2.1976 Bournemouth 5’ 7”; 10 st 10 lbs OL Début: 21.8.28 v Swindon Town
Career: South Street School; Victoria Albion; Gloucester Regiment; Bristol Motor Works; 8.12.19 BRISTOL CITY; 13.7.20 Douglas; April 1921 BRISTOL CITY [14,0]; July 1924 Exeter City [151,39]; 24.5.28 BRISTOL ROVERS [21,4]; August 1929 Bath City (to1931).
TERENCE COOPER
b 12.7.1944 Brotherton, near Castleford 5’ 7½”; 10 st 9 lbs FB Début: 18.8.79 v Queen’s Park Rangers
Career: Wath Wanderers; Wolverhampton Wanderers (trial); 1960 Ferrybridge Amateurs; May 1961 Leeds United (professional, July 1962) [240+10,7]; 13.3.75 Middlesbrough (£50,000) [105,1]; 19.7.78 BRISTOL CITY (£20,000); 7.8.79 BRISTOL ROVERS (player-coach; player-manager, 24.4.80-20.10.81) [53+6,0]; 11.11.81 Doncaster Rovers [20,0]; 20.5.82 BRISTOL CITY (player-manager until 15.3.88) [49+22,1]; October 1984 Bristol County Sports; Bristol Coin FC; 9.5.88 Exeter City (manager);
WILLIAM CLARK
b 25.3.1881 Whifflet, Lanarkshire d 17.3.1937 Bristol Début: 3.9.04 v Northampton Town
Career: Strathclyde; 16.8.01 Port Glasgow Athletic [44,10]; 3.5.04 BRISTOL ROVERS35 goals in 133 Southern League matches ; 4.5.08 Sunderland [41,4]; 21.10.10 BRISTOL CITY [24,1]; 10.6.11 Leicester Fosse [6,1] (to 1912).
FREDERICK CORBETT
b 1.1.1881 West Ham d 15.4.1924 Brentford Début: 29.4.05 v Tottenham Hotspur
Career: 8.8.99 Thames Ironworks; May 1900 West Ham United; 14.12.01 BRISTOL ROVERS 139 Southern League appearances 52 goals; 1903 BRISTOL CITY [49,14]; 18.4.05 BRISTOL ROVERS; 22.5.05 Brentford; 19.6.08 BRISTOL ROVERS;
KEITH CURLE
b 14.11.1963 Bristol 6’; 12 st 7 lbs CD Début: 29.8.81 v Chester City
Career: 1980 BRISTOL ROVERS (professional, 20.11.81) [21+11,4]; 4.11.83 Torquay United (loan); 10.11.83 Torquay United (£5,000) [16,5]; 24.2.84 BRISTOL CITY (£10,000) [113+8,1]; 23.10.87 Reading (£150,000) [40,0]; 21.10.88 Wimbledon (£500,000) [91+2,3]; 14.8.91 Manchester City (£2,500,000) [172,11]; 1.8.96 Wolverhampton Wanderers (£650,000) [148+2,10]; 4.7.00 Sheffield United (free) (player-coach) [53+4,1]; 16.8.02 Barnsley (free) [11,0]; 4,12,02 Mansfield Town (player-manager) [11+3,0];
FRANK CURRAN
b 31.5.1917 Ryton-on-Tyne d 24.9.1998 Southport 5’ 8½”; 10 st 10 lbs IF Début: 19.11.38 v Swindon Town
Career: Spen Black and White Juniors; Blaydon and District Boys; Washington Colliery; 8.8.35 Southport [16,3]; 18.2.37 Accrington Stanley (exchange for George Pateman) [34,14]; 14.6.38 BRISTOL ROVERS; 17.5.39 BRISTOL CITY (£200, including Alec Millar) [6,2]; 29.5.46 BRISTOL ROVERS [37,24]; 16.5.47 Shrewsbury Town; 17.6.47 Tranmere Rovers [17,7]; March 1948 Shrewsbury Town;
THOMAS WILLIAM DARKE
b JFM 1880 Bristol Début: 19.12.03 v Reading
Career: Staple Hill; Eastville Athletic; 20.9.02 BRISTOL ROVERS; 12.8.04 BRISTOL CITY [3,2]; July 1905 Staple Hill (to 1906).
WILLIAM GILBERT DEMMERY
b AMJ 1877 Kingswood d 28.12.1955 Bristol. Début: 25.1.09 v Queen’s Park Rangers
Career: 1894 Warmley; 1897 Staple Hill; 1898 Warmley; 1899 Bristol East; 1902 BRISTOL CITY [38,0]; 25.1.1909 BRISTOL ROVERS 7 Southern League appearances; 1910 Douglas; 24.12.10 Treharris; 12.9.11 Aberdare Athletic;
RONALD WILLIAM DIX
b 5.9.1912 Bristol d 2.4.1998 Bristol 5’ 9”; 12 st 7 lbs IL Début: 25.2.28 v Charlton Athletic
Career: South Street School; May 1927 BRISTOL ROVERS (professional, 5.9.29, £10) [100,33]; 9.5.32 Blackburn Rovers (£3,000) [38,14]; May 1933 Aston Villa [97,29]; February 1937 Derby County (£4,875) [94,35]; June 1939 Tottenham Hotspur (£8,500) [36,5]; 6.11.47 Reading (£2,750) [44,13] (retired, 1949); Played for BRISTOL CITY in Wartime football.
RICHARD ANDREW DRYDEN
b 14.6.1969 Stroud 6’; 11 st 2 lbs FB/W Début: 28.12.86 v Brentford
Career: BRISTOL ROVERS (professional, 14.7.87) [12+1,0]; 22.9.88 Exeter City (loan); 8.3.89 Exeter City (£10,000) [92,13]; 15.5.91 Manchester City (loan); 9.8.91 Notts County (£250,000); 18.11.92 Plymouth Argyle (loan) [5,0]; 19.3.93 Birmingham City (£165,000) [48,0]; 16.12.94 BRISTOL CITY (£200,000) [32+5,2]; 15.7.96 Dundee United (trial); 22.7.96 Southampton (trial); 5.8.96 Southampton (£150,000) [44+3,1]; 1.11.99 Stoke City (loan); 23.3.00 Stoke City (loan) [11+2,0]; 17.8.00 Notts County (loan) [30+1,1]; 8.9.00 Northampton Town (loan) [9+1,0]; 21.11.00 Swindon Town (loan) [7,0]; 2.2.01 Luton Town (free) [22+1,0]
JASON CORD EATON
b 29.1.1969 Bristol 5’ 10”; 11 st F Début: 15.8.87 v Rotherham United
Career: Olveston United; June 1987 BRISTOL ROVERS [0+3,0]; 1988 Clevedon Town; Trowbridge Town; 23.3.89 BRISTOL CITY (£1,000) [6+7,1]; July 1990 Trowbridge Town; November 1990 Gloucester City (£10,000); 19.10.92 Cheltenham Town (£20,000); 13.5.99 Yeovil Town (£15,000);
CHRISTIAN NICHOLAS HOWELLS EDWARDS
b 23.11.1975 Caerphilly 6’ 2”; 12 st 8 lbs D Début: 9.8.03 v Scunthorpe United
Career: 1989 Swansea City (professional, 20.7.94); 26.3.98 Nottingham Forest (£275,000) [44+10,3]; 11.12.98 BRISTOL CITY (loan) [3,0]; 24.2.00 Oxford United (loan); 16.11.01 Crystal Palace (loan) [9,0]; 17.9.02 Tranmere Rovers (loan) [12,0]; 17.1.03 Oxford United (loan) [10+1,1]; 3.7.03 BRISTOL ROVERS [91+8,3]; 19.8.05 Swansea City (loan) [113+3,4]; 25.7.06 Forest Green Rovers (free); 6.1.07 Aberystwyth Town (free) (player-coach) (retired, February 2011).
JOHN GARETH EMMANUEL
b 1.12.1954 Swansea 5’ 9”; 10 st 8 lbs M Début: 26.12.78 v Crystal Palace
Career: Swansea Boys; July 1971 Birmingham City [61+10,6]; 22.12.78 BRISTOL ROVERS (loan); 29.1.79 BRISTOL ROVERS (£50,000) [59+6,2]; 22.7.81 Swindon Town (exchange with Brian Williams) [109+6,2]; 30.7.84 Newport County (free) [12,0]; 1.8.85 BRISTOL CITY (free) [2,0]; May 1985 Forest Green Rovers; 26.8.85 Swansea City (free) [104+7,5]; July 1988 Merthyr Tydfil;
ANTHONY MICHAEL FORD
b 26.11.1944 Thornbury 6’ 2”; 12 st 5 lbs FB Début: 13.12.69 v Fulham
Career: BRISTOL CITY (professional, November 1962) [170+1,10]; 4.12.69 BRISTOL ROVERS (£4,000) [28,1] (retired, 30.3.71);
JOHN FORBES
b 1892 Scotland
Career: Dundee North End; Dundee Violet; 6.6.11 BRISTOL CITY [27,5]; 5.9.12 Stalybridge Celtic (to 1915). Played for Rovers during the unofficial First World War football seasons
THOMAS JOHN FUGE
b JAS 1894 Llanelli IF
Career: January 1910 Cwm Albion; Hanham Rangers; Belle Vue; Hanham Athletic; August 30.8.11 Barrow; 23.2.12 Barrow St Luke’s; 22.6.12 Llanelli; 6.6.13 BRISTOL CITY [6,3];. For Bristol Rovers he scored two goals in unofficial First World War football
GEORGE GANE
b JFM 1886 Kingswood d 19.6.1967 Kingswood 5’ 10”; 10 st 7 lbs WH Début: 23.10.20 v Norwich City
Career: Kingswood Rovers; Lodge Hill; Watchet; Bridgend; 1910 BRISTOL ROVERS (trial); 30.5.10 Workington; 10.5.11 Bradford City [35,0]; 3.4.14 Airdrieonians [10,0]; 31.8.14 BRISTOL CITY [2,0]; 23.8.19 Douglas; 12.10.20 BRISTOL ROVERS [1,0];
ALFRED GEDDES
b March 1871 West Bromwich d 4.10.1927 Bristol Début: 5.10.01 v Tottenham Hotspur
Career: Christ Church School, West Bromwich; Bratt Street School, West Bromwich; Causeway Green Villa; May 1891 West Bromwich Albion; March 1894 Clapham Rovers; 11.4.95 West Bromwich Albion (loan) [73,25]; 26.4.95 Millwall Athletic; 11.5.99 Bedminster; 31.10.00 BRISTOL CITY [13,4]; 24.9.01 BRISTOL ROVERS played 7 times at outside-left for Rovers during 1901-02 and scored a hat-trick for the reserves in a 5-1 victory over Weston-super-Mare in April 1902.
STEVEN GILLESPIE
b 4.6.1985 Liverpool 5’ 9”; 11 st 3 lbs F Début: 8.2.14 v Oxford United
Career: Liverpool Schools; 1.7.03 Liverpool; 27.5.04 BRISTOL CITY (free) [4+8,1]; 11.1.05 Cheltenham Town (loan); 31.1.06 Cheltenham Town (free); 7.7.08 Colchester United (£400,000) [46+52,25]; 18.6.12 Fleetwood Town (free) [9+13,4]; 15.8.13 Cheltenham Town (loan) [66+26,29]; 6.2.14 BRISTOL ROVERS (free) [3+9,1]; 19.7.14 Altrincham (free); 4.5.15 Warrington Town
DONALD GEORGE GILLIES
b 20.6.1951 Glencoe 5’ 10”; 11 st 5 lbs FB Début: 16.8.80 v Orient
Career: Inverness Clachnacuddin; 1.11.71 Morton [45+2,23]; 8.3.73 BRISTOL CITY (£30,000) [183+17,26]; 23.5.80 BRISTOL ROVERS (£50,000) [56+3,0]; 26.10.83 Paulton Rovers; 8.7.85 Trowbridge Town; 15.7.85 Anorthosis, Cyprus; 25.7.86 Trowbridge Town; 14.8.86 Yeovil Town; 1987 Clutton; 2.4.88 Bristol Manor Farm;
LESLIE HOWARD GOLLEDGE
b 3.8.1911 Chipping Sodbury d 11.7.1989 Fishponds, Bristol 5’ 10”; 10 st 3 lbs IF Début: 9.2.35 v Crystal Palace
Career: Shortwood; Kingswood Rovers; July 1930 BRISTOL CITY (professional, June 1931) [25,3]; 1.6.35 BRISTOL ROVERS [9,1];
COLIN KENNETH GORDON
b 17.1.1963 Stourbridge 6’ 1”; 12 st 12 lbs F Début: 26.2.91 v Burnley
Career: Stourbridge; 1981 Worcester City; 1982 Halesowen Harriers (trial); 1982 Oldbury United; 1.11.84 Swindon Town [70+2,34]; 3.7.86 Wimbledon (£80,000) [2+1,0]; 15.2.87 Gillingham (loan) [4,2]; 17.7.87 Reading (£80,000) [23+1,0]; 24.3.88 BRISTOL CITY (loan) [8,4]; 7.10.88 Fulham (£100,000) [12+5,2]; 29.6.89 Birmingham City [17+9,3]; 13.9.90 Hereford United (loan) [6,0]; 19.12.90 Walsall (loan) [6,1]; 23.1.91 BRISTOL ROVERS (loan) [1+3,0]; 19.7.91 Leicester City [18+6,5];
ROBERT ALFRED GOULD
b 12.6.1946 Coventry 5’ 10”; 11 st 5 lbs F Début: 15.10.77 v Blackburn Rovers
Career: St James’ Youth Club; June 1964 Coventry City [78+4,40]; 2.2.68 Arsenal (£90,000) [57+8,16]; 2.6.70 Wolverhampton Wanderers (£55,000); 15.9.71 West Bromwich Albion (£66,666) [52,18]; 15.12.72 BRISTOL CITY (£70,000) [35,15]; 23.11.73 West Ham United (£80,000) [46+5,15]; 4.12.75 Wolverhampton Wanderers (£30,000) [63+11,31]; 14.10.77 BRISTOL ROVERS (£10,000) [35+1,12]; 13.9.78 Hereford United (£10,000) [42+3,13];
WILLIAM HENRY HALES
b AMJ 1885 Bristol d JFM 1951 Bristol Début: 10.9.04 v Portsmouth
Career: Kingswood Rovers; 8.11.01 Bristol St George; 25.10.02 BRISTOL ROVERS (amateur); January 1903 Bristol St George; January 1904 BRISTOL CITY [1,0]; 6.5.04 BRISTOL ROVERS 77 Southern League games; 8.5.08 New Brompton; 5.10.09 Mardy.
STEPHEN JOHN HARDING
b 23.7.1956 Bristol 6’ 2”; 12 st 13 lbs CD Début: 2.1.78 v Cardiff City
Career: Whitehall School; Bristol Boys; 1972 BRISTOL CITY (professional, July 1974) [2,0]; 28.1.76 Southend United (loan) [2,0]; 10.9.76 Grimsby Town (loan) [8,0]; 30.5.77 BRISTOL ROVERS (free) [37+1,1]; 17.1.80 Brentford (loan) [3+1,0];
GEORGE H ANDREW HARGETT
b Bristol Début: 5.3.03 v Kettering Town
Career: Bristol St George; August 1903 BRISTOL ROVERS 2 Southern League games at left-back 8.10.04 BRISTOL CITY [3,0].
THOMAS FRANK FARNLEY HARRIS
b 26.6.1913 Plymouth d December 1987 Plymouth 5’ 11”; 11 st 8 lbs CF Début: 23.4.35 v Watford
Career: Prawle United; Devon Corinthians; 26.5.33 Tottenham Hotspur (amateur); 1934 Plymouth Kitto (amateur); 23.4.35 BRISTOL ROVERS [28,16]; 6.12.37 Southampton; June 1938 Barrow [41,24]. Played wartime football for BRISTOL CITY
DOUGLAS STANWORTH HAYWARD
b 23.8.1920 St George’s, Wellington d 31.8.2008 Weston-super-Mare 5’ 9”; 12 st FB Début: 2.11.46 v Cardiff City
Career: Donnington Wood; 1936 Huddersfield Town (professional, May 1939); 27.9.46 BRISTOL ROVERS [1,0]; 20.11.46 Newport County [259,11]; July 1956 Bath City; June 1958 Frome Town (player-manager); June 1956 Weston-super-Mare (manager) during World War Two he represented BRISTOL CITY and totalled five goals in fifteen unofficial matches for the Robins.
PAUL HEFFERNAN
b 29.12.1981 Dublin 5’ 10”; 11 st F Début: 9.2.10 v Walsall
Career: 1.8.98 Newtown; July 1999 Middlesbrough (trial); August 1999 Sunderland (trial); 7.10.99 Notts County (free) [74+26,35]; 29.6.04 BRISTOL CITY (£125,000) [10+17,5]; 8.6.05 Doncaster Rovers (£125,000) [85+39,35]; 30.11.09 Oldham Athletic (loan) [4,1]; 8.2.10 BRISTOL ROVERS (loan) [11,4]; 9.6.10 Sheffield Wednesday (free) [3+14,3]; 15.6.11 Kilmarnock (free) [52+8,20]; 28.8.13 Hibernian (free) [17+13,5]; 2.2.15 Dundee (free) [4+3,1]; 9.7.15 Falkirk (trial); 13.8.15 Queen of the South (free) [3+2,1]; 11.3.16 Dumbarton (free) [4+4,0].
SYDNEY HOMER
b 14.1.1903 Bloxwich, Staffordshire d 22.1.1983 Walsall 5’ 2¾”; 9 st 10 lbs OR Début: 7.9.27 v Plymouth Argyle
Career: Bloxwich White Star; 1924 Bloxwich Strollers; May 1925 Wolverhampton Wanderers [29,1]; 22.6.27 BRISTOL ROVERS [38,5]; 8.11.29 BRISTOL CITY (£250) [179,18]; August 1934 Worcester City; 1938 Hereford United.
PETER JOHN HOOPER
b 2.2.1933 Teignmouth, Devon d 13.8.2011 Barnstaple, Devon 5’ 9”; 11 st 11 lbs OL Début: 27.3.54 v Rotherham United
Career: Teignmouth Grammar School; Exeter City (amateur); Dawlish Town; 5.5.53 BRISTOL ROVERS [297,101]; 2.7.62 Cardiff City (£10,500) [40,22]; July 1963 BRISTOL CITY (£11,250) [54,14]; 1966 Worcester City (£1,500); 1967 Glastonbury; 1968 Barnstaple Town (retired, 1969).
JAMES THOMAS HOWARTH
b OND 1892 Middleton, Lancashire d 2.11.1946 Newport 5’ 8”; 12 st CF Début: 11.11.22 v Plymouth Argyle
Career: Bury; January 1914 BRISTOL CITY [52,17]; 10.3.21 Leeds United (£460) [45,19]; 9.11.22 BRISTOL ROVERS (£500) [21,4]; 7.5.23 Lovell’s Athletic (£750) (goalkeeper-manager, 13.8.23).
CLARENCE LESLIE HUGHES
b 2.1.1896 Brentford d May 1989 Weston-super-Mare Début: 27.9.19 v Newport County
Career: Sneyd Park; September 1919 BRISTOL ROVERS 5 Southern League matches; 20.12.19 BRISTOL CITY [2,0].
MARK HUGHES
b 3.2.1962 Port Talbot 6’; 12 st 8 lbs CD Début: 3.5.80 v West Ham United
Career: 10.9.78 BRISTOL ROVERS (professional, 1.2.80) [73+1,3]; 23.12.82 Torquay United (loan) [9,1]; 30.7.84 Swansea City (free) [12,0]; 7.2.85 BRISTOL CITY [21+1,0]; 19.9.85 Tranmere Rovers (£3,000) [264+8,9]; August 1993 Partick Thistle (trial); August 1994 Shrewsbury Town (free) [20+2,0] (to 1996); 1997 Fleetwood Freeport (manager).
ALBERT KITCHENER ILES
b 9.10.1914 Tunbridge Wells d 30.11.1979 Cambridge 5’ 10”; 13 st 6 lbs CF Début: 25.9.37 v Southend United
Career: Tunbridge Wells Rangers; 24.9.37 BRISTOL ROVERS (£250) [46,19]; July 1939 Street; Bristol St George (trainer; 1966-70 manager). Wartime football with BRISTOL CITY, where he scored once in two matches.
SAMUEL JOHNSTONE IRVING
b 28.8.1894 Belfast d 17.1.1969 Dundee 5’ 10”; 12 st 1 lb WH Début: 27.8.32 v Crystal Palace
Career: Shildon Athletic; 1911 Newcastle United (trial); 1912 Galashiels United; 6.5.13 BRISTOL CITY [18,4]; 1915 Blyth Spartans; 1919 Shildon Athletic; 20.7.20 Dundee [160,5]; 1925 Partick Thistle (trial); 1925 New York Centrals (player-manager); August 1926 Cardiff City [46,4]; 28.2.28 Chelsea [89,5]; 6.5.32 BRISTOL ROVERS (player-coach) [21,1] (to 1933); August 1934 Brechin City;
TREVOR FREDERICK JACOBS
b 28.11.1946 Bristol d 18.1.2014 Bristol 5’ 9”; 11 st 10 lbs FB Début: 25.8.73 v Bournemouth
Career: BRISTOL CITY (professional, July 1965) [130+1,3]; 28.9.72 Plymouth Argyle (loan) [4,0]; 21.5.73 BRISTOL ROVERS (free) [82,3]; July 1976 Bideford; 9.11.76 Frome Town; 1977 Paulton Rovers; August 1982 Clevedon Town;
HENRY JAMES KELSON
b OND 1889 Bath d 1978 Bristol WH
Career: Bedminster United; 1914 BRISTOL CITY; September 1919 Newport County [11,1]; July 1921 Mardy; September 1923 Penrhiwceiber Left-half Harry Kelson scored seven goals for Rovers during the unofficial First World War football seasons. Kelson returned to haunt Rovers by scoring the opening goal when Rovers lost 2-0 to Bristol City at Ashton Gate in March 1918 and adding further goals when City won 4-2 that October and in Rovers’ 4-1 victory of May 1918,
ERRINGTON EDISON KELLY
b 8.4.1958 Sandy Bay, St Vincent, West Indies 5’ 11”; 11 st 7 lbs W Début: 9.2.82 v Exeter City
Career: Coventry Boys; Jahbaddis; Hereford United (trial); 1980 AP Leamington; VS Rugby; 1981 Ledbury Town; 22.9.81 BRISTOL ROVERS (£1,000) [12+6,3]; 31.1.83 Lincoln City [0+2,0]; 1.3.83 BRISTOL CITY [4+1,1]; 23.7.83 Coventry City; 22.3.84 Peterborough United; May 1986 Grebbestads IF; 1.8.86 Peterborough United [95+23,28]; July 1988 Gimonäs CK.
HENRY KIRK
b 22.4.1899 Dinnington, Yorkshire
Career: Dinnington Colliery; Sherwood Rovers; Worksop Town; 29.3.20 BRISTOL CITY (professional, 30.4.20) [17,7]; 20.6.21 Plymouth Argyle [1,0]; 4.3.22 Exeter City; 28.5.22 Plymouth Argyle; 30.9.22 Exeter City (£250) [140,45]; 13.5.26 Charlton Athletic (£150) [8,2]; 1927 Bath City; 24.8.28 New Brighton [27,9]; 9.8.29 South Shields [12,3]; September 1930 Bath City. Played for Rovers during the unofficial First World War football seasons
PHILIP DAVID KITE
b 26.10.1962 Kingswood, Bristol 6’ 1”; 14 st 7 lbs GK Début: 10.1.81 v Derby County
Career: 10.7.79 BRISTOL ROVERS (professional, 26.10.80) [96,0]; 16.1.84 Tottenham Hotspur (loan); 15.8.84 Southampton (£50,000) [4,0]; 27.3.86 Middlesbrough (loan) [2,0]; 7.2.87 Gillingham [70,0]; 12.7.89 Bournemouth (£270,000 with Gavin Peacock) [7,0]; 10.8.90 Sheffield United (£25,000) [11,0]; 21.11.91 Mansfield Town (loan) [11,0]; 9.9.92 Plymouth Argyle (loan) [2,0]; 24.10.92 Rotherham United (loan) [1,0]; 27.11.92 Crewe Alexandra (loan) [5,0]; 25.3.93 Stockport County (loan) [5,0]; 1.7.93 Cardiff City (loan) [17+1,0]; 11.8.94 BRISTOL CITY (free) [5+1,0]; 14.5.96 BRISTOL ROVERS (physiotherapist, to 17.5.15).
FREDERICK H LATHAM
b AMJ 1874 Bedminster d OND 1918 Bristol Début: 22.9.06 v Swindon Town
Career: Keynsham; 1.5.05 BRISTOL ROVERS 2 goals in 6 Southern League appearances; 23.8.07 Staple Hill; September 1908 BRISTOL CITY [1,0]; 4.9.09 Mardy; April 1910 Reading (trial); 4.9.11 Bath City.
MICHAEL CHARLES LYONS
b 31.1.1932 Bristol 5’ 11½”; 12 st 4 lbs FB/CF Début: 14.11.53 v Swansea City
Career: BRISTOL CITY (professional, June 1950) [2,0]; 8.7.53 BRISTOL ROVERS (free) [2,0]; 5.7.56 Bournemouth [105,0]; 30.10.59 Swindon Town (£1,000) [2,0]; 12.7.60 Yeovil Town (retired, 1962); 1965 BRISTOL ROVERS (trainer; reserve team manager,
LEE JOSEPH MATTHEWS
b 16.1.1979 Middlesbrough 6’ 1”; 13 st 3 lbs F Début: 13.1.04 v Macclesfield Town
Career: St Clare’s School; 15.2.96 Leeds United (professional, 1.8.97) [0+3,0]; 24.2.98 Notts County (loan) [4+1,0]; 23.3.00 Gillingham (loan) [2+3,0]; 20.3.01 BRISTOL CITY (£100,000) [14+29,9]; 10.12.03 Darlington (loan) [6,1]; 12.1.04 BRISTOL ROVERS (loan) [9,0]; 18.3.04 Yeovil Town (loan) [2+2,0]; 9.6.04 Port Vale (free) [21+13,11]; 31.8.06 Crewe Alexandra (free) [0+10,0]; 16.8.07 Livingston (free) [3+2,0] (retired, 2008).
AIDAN McCAFFERY
b 30.8.1957 Jarrow, Co Durham 5’ 11”; 11 st 2 lbs CD Début: 19.8.80 v Queen’s Park Rangers
Career: St Joseph’s School, Hebburn; August 1973 Newcastle United (professional, January 1974) [57+2,4]; 28.8.78 Derby County (£25,000) [31+6,4]; 20.8.80 BRISTOL ROVERS (£50,000) [183+1,11]; 18.2.82 BRISTOL CITY (loan) [6,1]; 14.3.85 Torquay United (loan) [6,0]; 22.6.85 Exeter City [55+3,0]; 14.2.87 Hartlepool United [6,1]; 1987 Whitley Bay; January 1988 Carlisle United [14,0]
JOHN C McLEAN
b 22.5.1872 Port Glasgow Début: 6.9.02 v Northampton Town
Career: 1890 Greenock Volunteers; 10.10.94 Liverpool [26,0]; 12.6.97 Grimsby Town [30,2]; 10.5.98 BRISTOL CITY (£40) [34,1]; 5.5.02 BRISTOL ROVERS 29 Southern League appearances 1 goal; April 1903 Millwall Athletic; 3.5.06 Queen’s Park Rangers.
BARRIE JOHN MEYER
b 21.8.1932 Bournemouth d 13.9.2015 Durban, South Africa 5’ 10”; 12 st IF Début: 7.10.50 v Bournemouth
Career: St Clement’s Junior School; Boscombe Secondary School; 1948 Pokesdown Youth Club; 1949 Sneyd Park; 13.8.49 BRISTOL ROVERS (professional, 21.11.49) [139,60]; 21.8.58 Plymouth Argyle (£4,000 plus John Timmins) [8,5]; 17.2.59 Newport County (£4,000) [70,27]; 14.9.61 BRISTOL CITY (£850) [11,8]; July 1963 Hereford United; 24.9.66 Glastonbury (to 1968).
ANDREW ALFRED JOSEPH MICKLEWRIGHT
b 31.1.1931 Birmingham d 5.8.2006 Torbay, Devon 5’ 9½”; 11 st IF Début: 16.2.52 v Northampton Town
Career: Sandwell Borough; Smethwick Highfields; May 1949 West Bromwich Albion (trial); 27.1.52 BRISTOL ROVERS (£50) [7,1]; 5.5.53 BRISTOL CITY (free) [39,17]; September 1955 Swindon Town [114,31]; July 1959 Exeter City [38,11]; 1960 Nuneaton Borough;
PAUL ANTHONY MILLER
b 31.1.68 Bisley, Woking 6’; 11 st F Début: 20.8.94 v York City
Career: 1983 Wimbledon (schoolboy); Wealdstone; 1.2.87 Yeovil Town; 12.8.87 Wimbledon [65+15,10]; 20.10.87 Newport County (loan) [6,2]; 11.1.90 BRISTOL CITY (loan) [0+3,0]; 16.8.94 BRISTOL ROVERS (£100,000) [105+5,20]; 8.8.97 Lincoln City [83+13,11];
TREVOR JAMES MORGAN
b 30.9.1956 Forest Gate 6’ 1”; 13 st 1 lb F Début: 21.9.85 v Walsall
Career: July 1977 Tonbridge Angels; 1979 football in Australia; November 1979 Tonbridge Angels; January 1980 Dartford; Walthamstow Avenue; Leytonstone and Ilford; 2.9.80 Bournemouth (£3,000); 31.10.81 Mansfield Town (£10,000) [12,6]; 6.3.82 Bournemouth (£4,000) [141,46]; 1.3.84 BRISTOL CITY (£12,000); 29.11.84 Exeter City (free); 13.5.85 St George, Budapest, Australia (loan) [12,8]; 19.9.85 BRISTOL ROVERS (£15,000) [54+1,24]; 23.1.87 BRISTOL CITY (£16,000) [51,15]; 25.6.87 Bolton Wanderers (£30,000) [65+12,17]; 27.10.89 Colchester United [31+1,12]; May 1990 Happy Valley, Hong Kong [5,4]; 9.11.90 Exeter City (player-coach); 1991 South China, Hong Kong (player-coach) [37,23]; March 1993 Birmingham City [0+1,0] (assistant manager; caretaker manager, 29.11.93); December 1993 Exeter City (assistant manager) [48+8,13];
CLIFFORD IVOR MORGAN
b 26.9.1913 Bristol d 31.7.1975 Bristol WH
Career: St George School; Bristol Boys’ Brigade; September 1930 BRISTOL CITY (professional, June 1931) [245,9] Played for Rovers at right-half in one game in the 1939-40 wartime season.
ALEXANDER MILLAR
b 20.1.1915 Coaltown of Balgonie, Markinch, Fife d 1973 Kennoway, Fife 5’ 10”; 12 st 4 lbs FB Début: 4.12.37 v Notts County
Career: Shawfield Juniors; Wellesley; Bowhill Rovers; January 1934 East Fife [49,0] (to April 1935); 1936 Margate; 12.7.37 BRISTOL ROVERS (£150) [52,0]; 15.5.39 BRISTOL CITY (£215) [3,0]; 1943 Heart of Midlothian; 1947 Forfar Athletic.
DAVID WILLIAM JAMES MURRAY
b 2.8.1901 Wynberg, Cape Town, South Africa d 1992 Cape Town, South Africa 5’ 10½”; 12 st CH/IF Début: 3.11.28 v Merthyr Town
Career: 1920 Clyde FC (Cape Town); Wynberg; July 1925 Everton [3,1]; 26.10.26 BRISTOL CITY [16,0]; 11.11.28 BRISTOL ROVERS (player-coach) [39,12]; June 1930 Swindon Town [1,0]; August 1931 Rochdale [22,3]; November 1933 Bangor City (player-coach); January 1936 YMCA, Jersey (coach).
FREDERICK NICHOLLS
b AMJ 1875 Bristol Début: 22.12.00 v Reading
Career: 4.5.00 BRISTOL ROVERS 2 southern league apps; March 1901 BRISTOL CITY 1 southern league apps (loan);
RONALD BERNARD NICHOLLS
b 4.12.1933 Sharpness, Gloucestershire d 23.7.1994 Cheltenham 6’ 1”; 12 st 4 lbs GK Début: 31.12.55 v Sheffield Wednesday
Career: Fulham (amateur); 14.7.54 BRISTOL ROVERS (professional, 2.11.54) [71,0]; 11.8.58 Cardiff City (exchange for John Frowen) [51,0]; July 1961 BRISTOL CITY [39,0]; September 1965 Cheltenham Town (to 1966).
RICHARD JAMES OSBORNE
b 10.2.1876 Clifton d JFM 1908 Bristol OR/OL Career: 61,21
14th July 1897 Bristol Rovers. 2 Bristol and District League fixtures with Bedminster in April 1895, 1896 appeared in Bristol South End’s 4-1 victory over Trowbridge Town ; 8. 9 1899 Bristol City 3 Southern Division matches as well as 1 Western League game
STEPHEN JOHN PHILLIPS
b 6.5.1978 Bath 6’ 1”; 13 st GK Début: 5.8.06 v Peterborough United
Career: Welton Rovers; 1.8.94 Paulton Rovers; 1996 Plymouth Argyle (trial); 1996 Gloucester City (loan); 1996 Evesham United (loan); 1.11.97 BRISTOL CITY [259+3,0]; 7.11.97 Worcester City (loan); 20.7.06 BRISTOL ROVERS (free) [136,0]; 26.8.09 Shrewsbury Town (free) [11,0]; 2.10.09 Crewe Alexandra (loan); 29.6.10 Crewe Alexandra (free) [105+1,0]; 3.7.14 Nantwich Town (free);
DWAYNE JERMAINE PLUMMER
b 12.5.1978 Bristol 5’ 9”; 11 st F Début: 30.9.00 v Luton Town
Career: North Bristol Colts; St Luke’s; 5.9.95 BRISTOL CITY [1+13,0]; 10.11.98 Stevenage Borough (loan); 19.11.98 Stevenage Borough (free); 1999 Chesham United; 6.9.00 BRISTOL ROVERS (£25,000) [29+6,1]; 17.1.03 Harlow Town.
WALTER DAVID PYLE
b 12.12.1936 Trowbridge, Wiltshire d 8.2.2002 Trowbridge, Wiltshire 6’; 12 st 2 lbs CH Début: 9.3.57 v Rotherham United
Career: Nelson Haden School; Trowbridge Colts; August 1954 Trowbridge Town; 5.7.55 BRISTOL ROVERS (free) [139,0]; 13.7.62 BRISTOL CITY (free) [8,0]; 28.8.63 Westbury United (manager, June 1964-May 1965).
STEPHEN JAMES QUINN
b 15.12.1974 Coventry 6’ 1”; 12 st 10 lbs F Début: 23.3.02 v Exeter City
Career: 1.8.92 Birmingham City [1+3,0]; 5.7.93 Blackpool (£25,000) [128+23,36]; 4.3.94 Stockport County (loan) [0+1,0]; 20.2.98 West Bromwich Albion (£500,000) [85+29,9]; 1.12.01 Notts County (loan) [6,3]; 22.3.02 BRISTOL ROVERS (loan) [6,1]; 26.4.02 Willem II [30+17,11]; 14.1.05 Sheffield Wednesday (free) [13+5,2]; 5.8.05 Peterborough United (free) [21+3,7]; 21.10.05 BRISTOL CITY (loan) [2+1,1]; 3.8.06 Northampton Town (free) [5+13,1]; 22.3.07 Scunthorpe United (loan); 2010 Princeton (coach).
JOSEPH EDGAR RILEY
b 1.5.1908 Sheffield d JAS 1978 Ross-on-Wye, Herefordshire 5’ 9”; 11 st CF Début: 2.1.32 v Bournemouth
Career: Conisborough Welfare Club; February 1929 Huddersfield Town (trial); April 1929 Denaby United; October 1930 Goldthorpe United; 8.5.31 BRISTOL ROVERS [9,4]; 25.5.33 BRISTOL CITY [59,21]; 21.5.35 Bournemouth (£2,000) [93,57]; 22.12.37 Notts County (exchange for Harry Mardon) [7,1]; August 1938 Gloucester City; July 1939 Cheltenham Town.
JASON ANDRÉ DAVIS ROBERTS MBE
b 25.1.1978 Park Royal, Middlesex 6’ 1”; 13 st 6 lbs F Début: 8.8.98 v Burnley
Career: Parkside Youth; 1992 Tottenham Hotspur (trial); Watford (trial); Chelsea (trial); Aston Villa (trial); 1994 Wycombe Wanderers; 1995 Hayes; 12.9.97 Wolverhampton Wanderers (£250,000); 19.12.97 Torquay United (loan) [13+1,6]; 26.3.98 BRISTOL CITY (loan) [1+2,1]; 6.8.98 BRISTOL ROVERS (£250,000) [73+5,38]; 26.7.00 West Bromwich Albion (£2,100,000) [75+14,24]; 1.9.03 Portsmouth (loan) [4+6,1]; 13.1.04 Wigan Athletic (£1,400,000) [93,37]; 3.7.06 Blackburn Rovers [73+61,24]; 26.1.12 Reading [25+3,6]
DAVID J ROBSON
b JAS 1879 Whitehaven d OND 1958 Newcastle-upon-Tyne Début: 5.9.03 v Swindon Town
Career: Wellingborough; 30.10.99 BRISTOL CITY [40,1]; 19.7.01 Brentford; 1902 Willington Athletic; 1903 BRISTOL ROVERS 1 southern league apps; 5.9.04 Bristol East; 19.7.05 Orient.
GARY DEAN SAWYER
b 5.7.1985 Bideford, Devon 6’; 11 st 8 lbs FB Début: 7.8.10 v Peterborough United
Career: 2002 Plymouth Argyle (professional, 1.7.04); 2003 Weymouth (loan); 11.8.04 Exeter City (free); 15.7.06 Plymouth Argyle (free) [88+7,5]; 25.3.10 BRISTOL CITY (loan) [2,0]; 30.6.10 BRISTOL ROVERS (free) [60+1,0]; 13.5.12 Orient (free) [62+7,1]; 25.6.15 Plymouth Argyle (free) [43,0].
HENRY STANLEY SMITH
b 11.10.1908 Newburn, Northumberland d 13.6.1993 Throckley 5’ 9½”; 11 st 8 lbs FB Début: 16.11.46 v Northampton Town
Career: November 1928 Nottingham Forest (professional, December 1928) [156,1]; July 1937 Darlington [65,0]; 17.8.39 BRISTOL ROVERS [3,0] (player-coach). Wartime also saw him play once for BRISTOL CITY, in a 2-1 defeat at Bath City in April 1941
CECIL STEEDS
b 11.1.1929 Bristol 5’ 9”; 10 st 8 lbs IF Début: 19.1.57 v Leicester City Career: Merrywood School; Bedminster Down Boys’ Club; 1945 BRISTOL CITY (professional, 4.3.47) [9,0]; 21.5.52 BRISTOL ROVERS [1,0]; 14.8.58 Bath City (free); 1960 Chippenham Town
WILLIAM MARCUS PAUL STEWART
b 8.11.1972 Bristol 5’ 10”; 10 st 3 lbs F Début: 17.8.91 v Ipswich Town
Career: 1985 BRISTOL ROVERS (professional, 18.7.91) [137+34,57]; 2.7.96 Huddersfield Town (£1,200,000) [129+4,58]; 1.2.00 Ipswich Town (£2,500,000) [65+10,27]; 30.8.02 Sunderland (£3,250,000) [77+25,31]; 6.6.05 BRISTOL CITY (free) [16+11,5]; 21.3.06 Preston North End (loan) [4,0]; 30.7.06 Yeovil Town (loan); 30.8.06 Yeovil Town (free) [66+1,12]; 16.7.08 Exeter City (free) [73+12,9]
FREDERICK GEORGE SWEET
b AMJ 1894 Bristol d AMJ 1962 Bristol CH
29th August 1912BRISTOL CITY [4,1] scored 6 goals for Bristol Rovers in 1915 total apps unknown
MATTHEW TAYLOR
b 30.3.1990 Oxford 5’ 10”; 11 st 3 lbs F Début: 8.8.15 v Northampton Town
Career: Oxford United; 2009 North Leigh; July 2011 Cheltenham Town (trial); 31.8.11 Forest Green Rovers; 31.1.14 Chester (loan); 16.6.14 BRISTOL ROVERS (free) [38+8,27]. 4 Feb 2017 made league debut for Bristol City.
JAMES CYRIL TERRY
b 9.7.1909 Bloxwich d 26.11.1956 Walsall 5’ 8”; 12 st FB Début: 3.3.34 v Orient
Career: St Anthony’s; 1927 Bloxwich Strollers; 1928 Stafford Rangers; 19.10.28 Manchester City; 16.6.31 BRISTOL CITY [5,0]; 21.7.32 Yeovil and Petters United (free); 9.3.33 BRISTOL ROVERS [3,0]; July 1934 Kidderminster Harriers; September 1934 Ashford
FRANK ALBERT TOWNROW
b 27.11.1902 West Ham d 10.8.1958 West Ham 5’ 9”; 11 st 5 lbs IF Début: 29.8.31 v Bournemouth
Career: March 1921 Arsenal (professional, 23.4.21) [8,2]; May 1926 Dundee [80,19]; 2.6.30 BRISTOL CITY [22,5]; 6.6.31 BRISTOL ROVERS [50,6]; 19.8.33 Taunton Town (released, 4.5.34).
ROBERT PETER TURNER
b 18.9.1966 Littlethorpe, near Ripon, Yorkshire 6’ 3”; 14 st 1 lb F Début: 17.1.87 v Bolton Wanderers
Career: July 1983 Huddersfield Town (professional, 19.7.84) [0+2,0]; 19.7.85 Cardiff City (loan); 10.10.85 Cardiff City (free) [34+5,8]; 2.10.86 Hartlepool United (loan) [7,1]; 31.12.86 BRISTOL ROVERS (loan); 29.1.87 BRISTOL ROVERS (free) [19+7,2]; 17.12.87 Wimbledon (£15,000) [2+8,0]; 27.1.89 BRISTOL CITY (£45,000) [45+7,12]; 23.7.90 Plymouth Argyle (loan); 8.8.90 Plymouth Argyle (£150,000) [66,17]; 21.11.92 Notts County (loan); 23.12.92 Notts County (£90,000) [7+1,1]; 25.3.93 Shrewsbury Town (loan) [9,0]; 4.2.94 Exeter City (free) [38+7,7]; 18.12.95 Cambridge United (free) [12+4,4]; 18.10.96 Hull City (loan) [5,2]
JOHN VAUGHAN
b 26.6.1964 Isleworth 5’ 10”; 13 st 1 lb GK Début: 6.9.85 v Newport County
Career: West Ham United (professional, 30.6.82); 12.3.85 Charlton Athletic (loan); 5.9.85 BRISTOL ROVERS (loan) [6,0]; 23.10.85 Wrexham (loan) [4,0]; 4.3.86 BRISTOL CITY (loan); 21.8.86 Fulham (£12,500) [44,0]; 21.1.88 BRISTOL CITY (loan) [5,0]; 6.6.88 Cambridge United (free) [178,0]; 3.8.93 Charlton Athletic (free) [11+1,0]; 26.7.94 Preston North End (free) [65+1,0]; 14.8.96 Lincoln City (free) [65,0]; 4.2.97 Colchester United (loan) [11,0]; 20.1.00 Chesterfield (loan) [3,0]
THOMAS HENRY WARE
b JFM 1889 Bristol d 31.8.1916 La Neuville, France died from battle injuries.
Career: Army football; 18.12.11 BRISTOL CITY [51,0] played for Rovers during the unofficial First World War football seasons
RAYMOND RICHARD WARREN 5’11” 11st 2lbs CH Debut 14.3.36 v Queens Park Rangers
b 23.6.1918 Bristol
Career Luckwell Lane School, Parsons Street Old Boys,23.3.1936 BRISTOL ROVERS (450.28) Retired May 1956
JOHN VICTOR WATKINS
b 9.4.1933 Bristol 5’ 11”; 11 st 10 lbs OL Début: 25.2.61 v Luton Town
Career: Portway School; Combe Dingle; 1950 Clifton St Vincent; BRISTOL CITY (professional, June 1951) [95,19]; 29.6.59 Cardiff City (£3,000) [65,17]; 21.2.61 BRISTOL ROVERS (exchange with Dai Ward) [23,0]; 3.8.62 Chippenham Town; July 1965 Welton Rovers;
WILLIAM WALTER WHITE
b 26.7.1907 Kirkcaldy, Fife 5’ 8½”; 11 st 6 lbs CF Début: 22.9.28 v Fulham
Career: 1926 Musselburgh Bruntonians; June 1927 Reading; 19.6.28 BRISTOL ROVERS [8,0]; July 1930 Charlton Athletic; December 1930 Gillingham [64,18]; May 1932 Aldershot [71,10]; June 1934 Carlisle United [8,2]; October 1934 Manchester City; 10.11.34 Newport County [19,3]; 8.5.35 BRISTOL CITY [50,15]; 30.12.36 Lincoln City [46,18]; June 1938 Hull City [2,0] (to May 1939).
WILFRED WHITFIELD
b 17.11.1916 Chesterfield, Derbyshire d February 1971 Bath 5’ 7”; 11 st 7 lbs WH Début: 19.11.38 v Swindon Town
Career: 11.6.36 Sheffield Wednesday (professional, 31.10.36); April 1938 Worksop Town; 29.6.38 BRISTOL ROVERS [26,1]; January 1947 Torquay United [55,2]; July 1951 Bath City (to May 1954); Played four times as a guest for BRISTOL CITY and scored eleven goals in 63 wartime matches with Rovers
JONAH CHARLES WILCOX
b 19.1.1894 Coleford, Somerset d 5.8.1956 Shipham, Somerset 5’ 11½”; 12 st CF Début: 29.8.25 v Charlton Athletic
Career: 7.9.12 Coleford Athletic; 13.9.13 Frome Town; 22.11.13 Welton Rovers; August 1914 Abertillery; 1.9.19 BRISTOL CITY [59,20]; 9.9.22 Bradford Park Avenue (£600) [21,5]; 17.7.24 New Brighton [42,35]; 7.5.25 BRISTOL ROVERS [32,18]; 10.5.26 Queen’s Park Rangers [9,2]; 24.8.27 Gillingham [56,27]; July 1929 Kidderminster Harriers; 1935 Frome Town.
BRIAN WILLIAMS
b 5.11.1955 Salford 5’ 9”; 12 st 1 lb FB Début: 29.8.81 v Chester
Career: Bury (professional, April 1973) [149+12,18]; 20.7.77 Queen’s Park Rangers (£70,000) [9+10,1]; 30.6.78 Swindon Town [89+10,8]; 22.7.81 BRISTOL ROVERS (exchange for Gary Emmanuel) [163,20]; July 1985 BRISTOL CITY (free) [77,3]; 28.7.87 Shrewsbury Town [62+3,1]; February 1991 Alvechurch; July 1992 Hereford United (Community Officer);
GAVIN JOHN WILLIAMS
b 20.7.1980 Merthyr Tydfil 5’ 11”; 11 st 5 lbs M Début: 5.2.11 v Brighton
Career: Cardiff City (schoolboy); 1.8.96 Hereford United; 11.5.02 Yeovil Town (£22,500); 8.12.04 West Ham United (£250,000) [7+3,1]; 10.11.05 Ipswich Town (loan); 4.1.06 Ipswich Town (£300,000) [47+7,3]; 27.6.08 BRISTOL CITY (free) [26+26,3]; 11.3.10 Yeovil Town (loan); 31.1.11 BRISTOL ROVERS (free) [17+2,2]; 15.6.11 Yeovil Town (free) [142+23,30]; 22.7.13 Woking (free)
ROBERT GORDON WILLIAMS
b 17.2.1940 Bristol 5’ 7”; 10 st IF Début: 18.3.67 v Grimsby Town
Career: Bristol Boys; BRISTOL CITY (professional, 28.5.58) [187,76]; 11.2.65 Rotherham United (£14,000) [47,12]; 16.3.67 BRISTOL ROVERS (£16,000) [28+1,5]; August 1969 Reading [60+4,20]; 1971 Keynsham Town (trial); 30.7.71 AS Oostende, Belgium;
GRAHAM ALFRED WITHEY
b 11.6.1960 Bristol 6’ 3”; 13 st 7 lbs F Début: 28.8.82 v Brentford
Career: 1976 Pucklechurch Sports; 1977 Welton Rovers; 8.8.80 Bath City (£5,000); 2.8.82 BRISTOL ROVERS (£5,000) [19+3,10]; 5.8.83 Coventry City (£5,000) [11+11,4]; October 1984 Seiko, Japan (loan); 21.12.84 Cardiff City (loan); 28.1.85 Cardiff City (£20,000) [27,7]; 1985 Bath City (loan); 20.9.86 BRISTOL CITY [1+1,0]; 12.12.86 Bath City; July 1988 Exeter City (free) [5+2,2];
THOMAS HUTCHINSON WILLIAMS
b 23.5.1899 Ryhope, Sunderland d 14.12.1960 Easington 5’ 8”; 11 st 10 lbs IF Début: 23.1.26 v Merthyr Town
Career: Ryhope Colliery; February 1921 Huddersfield Town (trial); 27.8.21 Clapton Orient [26,6]; 22.8.23 Charlton Athletic [5,2]; 14.2.24 Gillingham [16,9]; 2.8.24 Ashington [12,5]; August 1925 Mid-Rhondda United; 21.1.26 BRISTOL ROVERS [74,27]; 19.6.28 BRISTOL CITY [8,4]; 11.1.29 Merthyr Town [49,19]; 8.5.30 Norwich City [27,13]; October 1933 Easington Colliery Welfare;
MICHAEL JAMES WYATT
b 12.9.1974 Bristol 5’ 11”; 11 st 3 lbs F Début: 2.9.95 v Wrexham
Career: 1992 BRISTOL CITY (prof 7.7.93) [9+4,0]; 2