Reginald Boyne

Reginald Boyne
Personal information
Date of birth (1891-11-16)16 November 1891
Place of birth Leeds, England
Date of death 10 March 1963(1963-03-10) (aged 71)
Place of death Auckland, New Zealand
Playing position Inside forward
Youth career
Everton
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1913–1919 Aston Villa 13 (0)
→ Notts County (guest)
1916–1917 → Leicester Fosse (guest) 23 (2)
Loughborough Brush
1919–1921 Brentford 48 (23)

* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only.


Reginald Boyne (16 November 1891 – 10 March 1963) was a New Zealand professional football inside forward who played in the Football League for Aston Villa and Brentford.[1][2]

Career

Early years

Born in Leeds, the eldest son of William Boyne and Mary Ellen Waddington, Boyne emigrated to New Zealand with his family at a young age.[2] He began his career in intermediate football in Auckland, playing for the Everton team, which was named after the famous English side, before travelling back to England and playing junior football in his native Yorkshire.[3] Boyne's father, William Boyne, was president of the Everton Club in Auckland, where he and both his younger brothers, Harold Waddington Boyne and William Edgar Boyne played before the First World War broke out.[4] Harold was killed in action on the Western Front on 21 February 1917.[5][6]

Aston Villa

Boyne joined high-flying Division One side Aston Villa on trial in August 1913 and was awarded a professional contract in December that year.[3] He made his professional debut in a 1–0 defeat to Bradford City on 27 December 1913.[7] Boyne made just three further appearances during the 1913–14 season and only managed four appearances during the whole of the 1914–15 season,[7] before competitive football was suspended due to the ongoing First World War. Boyne made a further five wartime appearances for Villa, before departing in August 1919.[3]

Guest appearances

During the First World War, Boyne appeared as a guest for Notts County and Leicester Fosse.[3] He made 23 appearances and scored two goals in the Football League Midland Section for Leicester.[8][9] He also played for Loughborough Brush during the war.[10]

Brentford

Boyne dropped into non-league football and joined Southern League Division One side Brentford in August 1919.[2][11] While the club's league form was lacking, Boyne had a good 1919–20 season, top-scoring with 13 goals.[2] He was retained for the 1920–21 season and received another chance at league football, with Brentford having entered into the newly created Division Three South.[2] Boyne had the honour of scoring Brentford's first Football League goal, which came with the only goal of the game versus Millwall on 30 August 1920.[12] In a dire debut season (at the end of which the Bees had to apply for re-election), Boyne scored 10 goals in 22 games.[13] He was released in May 1920 and returned to New Zealand.[2]

References

  1. ↑ Haynes, Graham (1998). A-Z Of Bees: Brentford Encyclopaedia. Yore Publications. p. 57. ISBN 1 874427 57 7.
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 6 Haynes, Graham; Coumbe, Frank (2006). Timeless Bees: Brentford F.C. Who's Who 1920-2006. Yore Publications. p. 25. ISBN 978-0955294914.
  3. 1 2 3 4 "Aston Villa Player Database". astonvillaplayerdatabase.com. Retrieved 15 June 2015.
  4. ↑ "Everton FC supporter Dr David France unveils plaque to club's war heroes at Goodison Park - Liverpool Echo". www.liverpoolecho.co.uk. Retrieved 2016-10-26.
  5. ↑ "Everton and Lille | ToffeeWeb | Historical Articles". toffeeweb.com. Retrieved 2016-10-26.
  6. ↑ Manchester, Reading Room. "Casualty Details". www.cwgc.org. Retrieved 2016-10-26.
  7. 1 2 "Reginald Boyne". 11v11.com. Retrieved 15 June 2015.
  8. ↑ "Reg Boyne - Leicester City career stats - FoxesHistory". FoxesTalk Forum. Archived from the original on 2016-03-05. Retrieved 15 June 2015.
  9. ↑ England 1916/17
  10. ↑ Joyce, Michael (2012). Football League Players' Records 1888 to 1939. Nottingham: Tony Brown. p. 34. ISBN 190589161X.
  11. ↑ White, Eric, ed. (1989). 100 Years Of Brentford. Brentford FC. p. 365-366. ISBN 0951526200.
  12. ↑ "Brentford Football Club History". brentfordfchistory.co.uk. Retrieved 15 June 2015.
  13. ↑ "Brentford Football Club History". brentfordfchistory.co.uk. Retrieved 15 June 2015.
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