John Bainbridge (footballer)

Football player infobox
playername = John Bainbridge


fullname = John Robert Bainbridge
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height = height|ft=5|in=11
weight = 11 st 2 lbs
dateofbirth = April qtr 1880
cityofbirth = Seaham
countryofbirth = England
dateofdeath = death date|1960|1|17|df=y Age 79
cityofdeath = Sunderland
countryofdeath = England
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position = Forward
youthyears =
youthclubs = Silksworth
Sunderland Royal Rovers
years = 1903-1904
1904-1906
1906-1907
1907-1910
1910-1911
clubs =Glossop
Reading
Portsmouth
Southampton
Hartlepools United
caps(goals) =

25 0(4)
84 (20)
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John Robert Bainbridge (born Seaham, Sunderland 1880; died Sunderland 17 January 1960) was a professional footballer who played as a forward for three Southern League clubs between 1903 and 1910.

Bainbridge started his footballing career in the North East with Silksworth and Sunderland Royal Rovers, before turning professional with Glossop in May 1903.

In the summer of 1904 he moved South to join Reading where he spent two seasons before joining Portsmouth in 1906. After a season at Portsmouth, he moved along the South coast to join Southampton in May 1907.

According to Holley & Chalk's "The Alphabet of the Saints", Bainbridge was "a reliable performer. His right-wing partnership with Frank Jefferis drew favourable comparisons with the famed duo of Wood and Turner seven years earlier" [cite book |author=Duncan Holley & Gary Chalk |title=The Alphabet of the Saints| publisher= ACL & Polar Publishing | year=1992| pages=p.17| id=ISBN 0-9514862-3-3] .

In Saints' FA Cup run in 1908, in which they reached the semi-finals, he scored 4 goals in 6 games. Ill health ended his career at The Dell and he returned to his native North-East where, after playing briefly for Hartlepools United, he returned to his original occupation as coal-miner.

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References

*cite book
author=Gary Chalk & Duncan Holley
title=Saints - A complete record
publisher= Breedon Books
year=1987
id=ISBN 0-907969-22-4
*cite book
author=Duncan Holley & Gary Chalk
title=The Alphabet of the Saints
publisher= ACL & Polar Publishing
year=1992
id=ISBN 0-9514862-3-3
*cite book
author=Dave Juson & others
title=Saints v Pompey - A history of unrelenting rivalry
publisher=Hagiology
year=2004
id=ISBN 0-9534474-5-6