Joe Caven
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| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | John Brown Caven[1] | ||
| Date of birth | 11 October 1936 | ||
| Place of birth | Kirkintilloch, Scotland | ||
| Date of death | 13 August 2023 (aged 86) | ||
| Position(s) | Centre forward | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 1956–1962 | Airdrieonians | 83 | (42) |
| 1962 | Brighton & Hove Albion | 10 | (0) |
| 1962–1963 | Raith Rovers | 11 | (4) |
| 1963–1965 | Greenock Morton | 41 | (18) |
| 1965–1966 | Addington | 15 | (14) |
| 1966 | Germiston Callies | 17 | (8) |
| 1966–1967 | Stirling Albion | 3 | (0) |
| Total | 180 | (86) | |
| *Club domestic league appearances and goals | |||
John Brown "Joe" Caven (11 October 1936 – 13 August 2023) was a Scottish footballer, best known for playing with Greenock Morton[2] and Airdrieonians in the Scottish Football League. He was a centre forward.
Born in Kirkintilloch, Caven also played for Airdrie, Brighton & Hove Albion,[3] Raith Rovers, Greenock Morton, and Stirling Albion, with a short time in South Africa playing for Addington and Germiston Callies.[4][5]
Having been given a free transfer by Raith Rovers at the end of the 1962–63 season, in July 1963, Caven signed for Inverness Caledonian, a Highland Football League club at that time, on the basis that if a Scottish League club came along for him he would be released from his contract by Inverness Caledonian. Within weeks after signing for Inverness Caledonian, Greenock Morton signed Caven and therefore he never appeared for Inverness Caledonian in the Highland Football League. Caven later lived in Nairn, near Inverness, in the North of Scotland.
Caven died on 13 August 2023, at the age of 86.[6][7]
External links
[edit]- Joe Caven at Post War English & Scottish Football League A–Z Player's Transfer Database
References
[edit]- ^ "Joe Caven". Barry Hugman's Footballers. Retrieved 23 February 2017.
- ^ "Revival of Ton". Greenock Telegraph. 6 July 2009. Retrieved 8 December 2009.
- ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 24 September 2014. Retrieved 23 February 2015.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) - ^ "scottish-football-historical-archive.com". www.scottish-football-historical-archive.com. Retrieved 17 April 2018.
- ^ "Germiston Callies F.C. Driehoek Stadium, Germiston, South Africa". www.facebook.com. Retrieved 17 April 2018.
- ^ "RIP to Greenock Morton FC Legend and Honorary Member of Port Glasgow Morton Travel Club Mr Joe Caven". Port Glasgow Morton Travel Club on Facebook. Retrieved 13 August 2023.
- ^ "Joe Caven: Tributes as ex-Morton hero dies aged 86". Greenock Telegraph. 15 August 2023. Retrieved 15 August 2023.
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- 1936 births
- 2023 deaths
- Sportspeople from Kirkintilloch
- Footballers from East Dunbartonshire
- Scottish men's footballers
- Men's association football forwards
- Scottish Football League players
- English Football League players
- Scottish expatriate sportspeople in South Africa
- Scottish expatriate men's footballers
- Airdrieonians F.C. (1878) players
- Brighton & Hove Albion F.C. players
- Raith Rovers F.C. players
- Greenock Morton F.C. players
- Stirling Albion F.C. players
- Addington F.C. players
- National Football League (South Africa) players
- Germiston Callies F.C. players
- 20th-century Scottish sportsmen
- Scottish football forward, 1930s birth stubs