George Travers
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | James Edward Travers | ||
| Date of birth | 4 November 1888 | ||
| Place of birth | Birmingham, England | ||
| Date of death | 31 August 1946 (aged 57) | ||
| Place of death | Smethwick, England | ||
| Height | 5 ft 8 in (1.73 m) | ||
| Playing position | Forward | ||
| Youth career | |||
| 1904–1905 | Bilston United | ||
| 1905–1906 | Rowley United | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 1906–1907 | Wolverhampton Wanderers | 0 | (0) |
| 1907–1908 | Birmingham | 2 | (0) |
| 1908–1909 | Aston Villa | 4 | (4) |
| 1909–1910 | Queens Park Rangers | 34 | (7) |
| 1910–1911 | Leicester Fosse | 12 | (5) |
| 1911–1914 | Barnsley | 84 | (23) |
| 1914–1919 | Manchester United | 21 | (4) |
| → Tottenham Hotspur (guest) | |||
| 1919–1920 | Swindon Town | 34 | (12) |
| 1920 | Millwall | 2 | (0) |
| 1920–1921 | Norwich City | 29 | (11) |
| 1921 | Gillingham | 10 | (1) |
| 1921–1922 | Nuneaton Town | ||
| 1922–1929 | Cradley St Luke's | ||
| 1929–1931 | Bilston United | ||
| * Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. |
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James Edward Travers (4 November 1888 – 31 August 1946), known as George Travers, was an English professional footballer who played as an inside forward or centre forward. He made 164 appearances in the Football League, representing a number of clubs prior to and just after the First World War.
Travers was born in Newtown, Birmingham, and attended Birchfield Road School in nearby Aston. He began his football career with local teams Bilston United and Rowley United before joining Wolverhampton Wanderers in 1906. He made no league appearances for the club before moving on to Birmingham, where he spent eighteen months and played only twice for the first team. Transferred to Aston Villa in a part-exchange deal involving Jack Wilcox, he marked his debut in December 1908 with a hat-trick, but played only three more league games, leaving for Queens Park Rangers, then a Southern League club, at the end of the 1908–09 season. A year in London, during which he scored 7 goals from 34 appearances in the League (8 from 41 in all competitions), preceded six months with Leicester Fosse before a more long-lasting move, to Barnsley of the Second Division, in January 1911.
Travers played in the 1912 FA Cup Final, in which Barnsley beat West Bromwich Albion 1–0 in extra time in the replay, after the first game had ended goalless. The Manchester Guardian's report of the replay praised his shots at goal.
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