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Bob
Holmes |
Preston
North End FC
three captaincies, no goals
P 3 W 2 D 1 L 0 F 17:
A 2
83% successful
1893-95
full appearances:
seven
minutes as captain: 200 |
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Timeline |
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Robert Holmes |
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Birth |
Sunday,
23 June 1867 in
Preston, Lancashire [registered in
Preston, September 1867]. |
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Death |
Wednesday evening, 16 November
1955 at Preston Royal Infirmary, aged
88 years 146 days
[registered in Preston, December 1955]. |
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Source |
 Douglas Lammings' An
English Football Internationalist Who's Who [1990] & |
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Playing Career |
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Club(s) |
Began his
playing career with Preston Olympic FC, and joined Preston
North End FC in 1884, Holmes retired from professional football in May
1900 and was reinstated as an amateur and played
the last of his 300 league games on 26th December 1902 against
Manchester City FC after a two year absence.
It was a second division match, which City won 2-0.
He was also placed on the Football League referees' list and remained with
North End as a trainer. He represented Lancashire FA in 1886; |
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Club honours |
FA Cup
runners-up 1887-88, FA Cup winners 1888-89;
Football League Champions 1888-89, 1889-90; |
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Individual honours |
Football League
(three appearances); |
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Distinctions |
Holmes
was the last of the players who performed in the first League season of
1888-89 to retire, when he did so in 1900.
He was the last 'Invincible'
to die, and the sole survivor for over eleven years, after Sam Thompson
died on 23 December 1943. |
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Height/Weight |
5' 8�",
11st 7lbs [1888], 5' 8" [1889] |
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Source |
Douglas Lammings' An English
Football Internationalist Who's Who [1990]. |
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Management
Career |
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Club(s) |
Holmes
worked as a trainer for
Preston North End FC after he gave
up playing, and was then appointed by Bradford City AFC in the same
capacity
from 18 May 1904 up until becoming trainer/manager of
Blackburn Rovers
FC from April 1905 until he announced his retirement on 30 October 1913. Also coached at several public
schools. |
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Club honours |
Football League Champions 1911-12; |
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Captain Career |
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Captain number |
The
22nd player to captain England. |
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Player number |
One of
five who became the 147th player
(148) to appear
for England. |
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Position(s) |
Left-back; |
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First captaincy |
No. 48, 13 March 1893,
England 6 Wales 0, a British Championship match at
Victoria
Park, Boothen, Stoke-on-Trent, aged 25
years 264 days. |
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Last captaincy |
No. 53, 9 March 1895, England 9 Ireland 0, a
British Championship match at
Derbyshire County Cricket
Ground, Nottingham Road, Derby, aged 27 years 259 days. |
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Major tournaments |
British Championship 1892-93, 1893-94,
1894-95; |
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Team honours |
British Championship winners 1892-93, 1894-95; |
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Individual honours |
He was
the designated trainer for
England against Ireland in 1906 and also the 1908 Continental Tour. |
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Distinctions |
Holmes worked as a football coach and in April 1908, he was appointed
trainer to the English amateur international team. |
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