5'9.5"  12st.4lb.
b. Inverness 25 October 1865
 

Debut  7 October 1893 (27y 347d)                                                                                                                                           CAREER: Inverness Academicals;London Caledonians '87;Royal Arsenal '88;Preston North End Dec'90[4-4];Middlesbrough '91;Darwen Jul'92[22-8];Blackburn Rovers Aug'93-Sep'93;Newton Heath Nov'93[5-1];Notts County Mar'94;Newark.

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A strong inside forward who had done the rounds and played for a full season at Darwen, he was given a trial at the start of the 1893 season and quickly released. He had made plans to emigrate to South Africa and put them on hold but decided to go ahead with them. He quickly changed his mind because he signed for Newton Heath. Soon he was back in the Rovers' thoughts because he wrote to full back John Murray offering him an illegal inducement to join Notts County. However he sent the letter to the club and a committee man with the same name opened it. In May 1894 Campbell was suspended by the FA for two years, Notts County also being suspended but only for the close season. Campbell passed his enforced spell of idleness with a job selling cigars and tobacco and playing for Newark. Born in the far north of Scotland he gained representative honours for London and Kent, when he played for Arsenal, and was selected for the England trial until he confessed the place of his birth. At the time he was a corporal in the Royal Artillery and spoke without a trace of a Scottish accent. When Preston heard that his army service was due to end on 10 January 1891, they stepped in quickly to offer him terms to come north. His brief spell with the Rovers was unsurprisingly unproductive. He was favouring a foot injury, the club would not select him in his favourite inside left position and he had a public investigation to undergo in the bankruptcy court, as a result of the failure of his sports outfitters in Middelsbrough. He was the first man to be sent off playing against the Rovers when he was playing for Darwen on 25 March 1893. There is circumstantial evidence to support the belief that he left for Buenos Aires in 1897.