Reginald Boyne

{{Infobox football biography

| name = Reginald Boyne

| image = File:Reginald Boyne, Brentford FC footballer, 1920.jpg

| caption = Boyne while with Brentford in 1920.

| full_name = Reginald Boyne{{Cite book |last=Joyce |first=Michael |title=Football League Players' Records 1888 to 1939 |publisher=Tony Brown |year=2012 |isbn=978-1905891610 |location=Nottingham |page=34}}

| birth_date = {{Birth date|1891|11|16|df=y}}

| birth_place = Leeds, England

| death_date = {{Death date and age|df=y|1963|3|10|1891|11|16}}

| death_place = Auckland, New Zealand

| position = Inside forward

| youthyears1 =

| youthclubs1 = Everton

| years1 = 1913–1919

| clubs1 = Aston Villa

| caps1 = 13

| goals1 = 0

| years2 =

| clubs2 = → Notts County (guest)

| caps2 =

| goals2 =

| years3 = 1916–1917

| clubs3 = → Leicester Fosse (guest)

| caps3 = 23

| goals3 = 2

| years4 =

| clubs4 = → Loughborough Brush (guest)

| caps4 =

| goals4 =

| years5 = 1919–1921

| clubs5 = Brentford

| caps5 = 48

| goals5 = 23

}}

Reginald Boyne (16 November 1891 – 10 March 1963) was a New Zealand professional footballer who played as an inside forward in the Football League for Aston Villa and Brentford.

Career

= Early years =

File:Reginald Boyne and Aston Villa.jpg

Boyne began his career in intermediate football in Auckland, New Zealand with Everton, which was named after the English club, before travelling to England to play junior football in Yorkshire.{{Cite web |title=Boyne, Reginald (Reg) |url=http://www.astonvillaplayerdatabase.com/153.html |access-date=15 June 2015 |website=Aston Villa Player Database}}

= Aston Villa =

File:Reginald Boyne in his Everton uniform.jpg

Boyne joined high-flying First Division club Aston Villa on trial in August 1913 and was awarded a professional contract in December that year. He made his professional debut in a 1–0 defeat to Bradford City on 27 December 1913.{{Cite web |title=Reginald Boyne |url=http://www.11v11.com/players/reginald-boyne-43782/ |access-date=15 June 2015 |website=11v11.com}} Boyne made just three further appearances during the 1913–14 season and only managed four appearances during the whole of the 1914–15 season, 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.

== Guest appearances ==

During the First World War, Boyne appeared as a guest for Notts County, Leicester Fosse and Loughborough Brush.{{Cite news |title=Moment in Time: Millwall |language=en-gb |work=Brentford FC |url=https://www.brentfordfc.com/news/2017/october/moment-in-time-millwall/ |access-date=16 October 2017}} He made 23 appearances and scored two goals in the Football League Midland Section for Leicester.{{Cite web |title=Reg Boyne – Leicester City career stats |url=https://www.foxestalk.co.uk/history/players?pid=1372 |access-date=15 June 2015 |website=FoxesTalk}}{{Cite web |title=England 1916/17 |url=https://www.rsssf.org/tablese/eng17.html |access-date=16 October 2017 |website=RSSSF}}

= Brentford =

Boyne joined Southern League First Division club Brentford in August 1919. Despite suffering with knee trouble,{{Cite book |last=Bystander |first=The |title=Brentford Football Club Official Handbook 1920–21 |publisher=F. W. Dimbleby & Sons |year=1920 |page=18}} Boyne had a good 1919–20 season, top-scoring with 13 goals. He was retained for the 1920–21 season and received another chance at league football, with Brentford having entered into the newly created Third Division. 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.{{Cite book |title=100 Years Of Brentford |publisher=Brentford FC |year=1989 |isbn=0951526200 |editor-last=White |editor-first=Eric |pages=365–366}} 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. He was released in May 1921 and returned to New Zealand.

Personal life

Born in Leeds as the eldest son of William Boyne and Mary Ellen Waddington, Boyne emigrated to New Zealand with his family at a young age.{{Cite book |last1=Haynes |first1=Graham |title=Timeless Bees: Brentford F.C. Who's Who 1920–2006 |last2=Coumbe |first2=Frank |publisher=Yore Publications |year=2006 |isbn=978-0955294914 |page=25}} Boyne's father was president of the Everton club in Auckland, where he and both his younger brothers, Harold and William played before the First World War broke out.{{Cite web |title=Everton FC supporter Dr David France unveils plaque to club's war heroes at Goodison Park |url=http://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/everton-fc-supporter-dr-david-3373613 |access-date=26 October 2016 |website=Liverpool Echo|date=29 June 2011 }} Harold was killed in action on the Western Front on 21 February 1917.{{Cite web |title=Everton and Lille {{!}} Historical Articles |url=http://toffeeweb.com/season/14-15/comment/history/28446.html |access-date=26 October 2016 |website=ToffeeWeb}}{{CWGC|id=596677|accessdate=26 October 2016|name=Harold Waddington Boyne}}

Career statistics

class="wikitable" style="text-align: center;" \|+ Appearances and goals by club, season and competition ! rowspan="2" \|Club ! rowspan="2" \|Season ! colspan="3" \|League ! colspan="2" \|FA Cup ! colspan="2" \|Total
Division !Apps !Goals !Apps !Goals !Apps !Goals
rowspan="3" \|Aston Villa \|1913–14 \| rowspan="2" \|First Division \|4 \|0 \|0 \|0 \|4 \|0
1914–15 \|4 \|0 \|0 \|0 \|4 \|0
colspan="2" \|Total !8 !0 !0 !0 !8 !0
rowspan="3" \|Brentford \|1919–20 \|Southern League First Division \|27 \|13 \|1 \|0 \|28 \|13
1920–21 \|Third Division \|21 \|10 \|1 \|0 \|22 \|10
colspan="2" \|Total !48 !23 !2 !0 !50 !23
colspan="3" \|Career Total !56 !23 !2 !0 !58 !23

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