Reuben Vine
Personal information
Full name Reuben Vine[1]
Date of birth (1903-09-12)12 September 1903
Place of birth Leadgate, England
Date of death 13 January 1969(1969-01-13) (aged 65)[2]
Place of death Cheadle district, England
Height 5 ft 4 in (1.63 m)[3]
Position(s) Outside left
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
Stanley United
192?–1929 Eden Colliery Welfare
1929–1931 Darlington 48 (11)
1931–1932 Gateshead 0 (0)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Reuben Vine (12 September 1903 – 13 January 1969) was an English footballer who scored 11 goals from 48 appearances in the Football League playing as an outside left for Darlington between 1929 and 1931.[1] He was on the books of Gateshead without playing for their League team, and played non-league football for Stanley United and Eden Colliery Welfare.

Personal life

Vine was born in 1903 in Leadgate, County Durham. His father, Joseph, was a coal miner originally from Cornwall, and his mother, Barbara Ann née Day, was a local girl. By the time of the 1911 Census, Vine's father was dead and his mother worked as a charwoman to support her five young sons.[4]

Vine married Phyllis May Barham in Ashbourne, Derbyshire, in 1938.[5] The 1939 Register finds the couple living in Cheddleton, Staffordshire, where Vine is working as a mental nurse at the county asylum.[6] His death in 1969 at the age of 65 was registered in the Cheadle district, which includes Cheddleton.[7]

Football career

Vine played football for Stanley United and Eden Colliery Welfare before joining Football League Third Division North club Darlington in 1929.[1][8] He came into the first team for the Christmas Day fixture against Accrington Stanley,[9] and scored with his first touch of the ball in League football.[10] Vine played twice more over the festive period, then returned to the side on 25 January and scored five goals from five matches during February. He retained the left-wing position to the end of the season,[9] and Darlington retained his services for 1930–31.[11]

In September, Vine was left out of the side for two matches to accommodate triallist Tommy Duff, who was not taken on,[12] but was a regular thereafter until he was injured during a match against York City in March 1931.[13][14] He regained fitness,[15] but not his place, George Hurst being preferred initially, and then newcomer Mike Westgarth.[13] Vine returned in place of the injured Westgarth to score the only goal after two minutes of the visit to Southport on 11 April,[16][17] but it was Westgarth who completed the season.[13]

He was given a free transfer at the end of the season,[18] and signed for another Northern Section club, Gateshead, who were without an outside left after the departures of Jimmy Talbot and Albert Taylor.[8] However, it was another new arrival, Dicky Boland, who "found his place on the Gateshead side without much difficulty"; by early October, he was "playing at the top of his form",[19] and he did not miss a game until the following February.[20] Vine saw out the season in the reserve team.[1][21] The financially struggling club retained only nine players, and Vine was not among them.[22]

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 "Player search: Vine, R (Reuben)". English National Football Archive. Retrieved 5 March 2021.
  2. ↑ "Reuben Vine in the Staffordshire, England, Birth, Marriage and Death Indexes, 1837–2017". Indexes of Births, Marriages and Deaths for the County of Staffordshire. Staffordshire County Council. Ched 10a 426. Retrieved 7 March 2021 – via Ancestry.com.
  3. ↑ "Darlington". Athletic News. Manchester. 4 August 1930. p. 14.
  4. ↑ "1901 England Census for Barbara A Vine". RG13/4669 folio 8 page 8 – via Ancestry.com.
    "1911 England Census for Rouben Vine". RG14/29889 – via Ancestry.com.
    "Barbara Ann Day: England and Wales Marriage Registration Index, 1837–2005". FamilySearch. Retrieved 5 March 2021.
  5. ↑ "Ashbourne bride married to Durham bridegroom". Ashbourne Telegraph. 9 September 1938. p. 5. ... the bridegroom was Mr. Reuben Vine, son of Mrs. Emmerson, Iveston, near Leadgate, County Durham.
  6. ↑ "1939 England and Wales Register for Reuben Vine". RG 101/5455I OTDD – via Ancestry.com.
  7. ↑ "Index entry". FreeBMD. Office for National Statistics. Retrieved 5 March 2021.
  8. 1 2 Rambler (1 August 1931). "Football features. Third Division signings". Halifax Daily Courier & Guardian. p. 7.
  9. 1 2 Tweddle 2000, p. 31.
  10. ↑ "Stanley's double win". Lancashire Daily Post. 27 December 1929. p. 10.
  11. ↑ "Darlington's retained". Northern Daily Mail. West Hartlepool. 14 May 1930. p. 10.
  12. ↑ "West Cornforth player for Crook". Northern Daily Mail. West Hartlepool. 23 September 1930. p. 7.
  13. 1 2 3 Tweddle 2000, p. 32.
  14. ↑ "To meet Rotherham". Leeds Mercury. 20 March 1931. p. 9.
  15. ↑ "Robins wipe off arrears". Shields Daily News. 30 March 1931. p. 5.
  16. ↑ "On duty for Darlington". Leeds Mercury. 10 April 1931. p. 9.
  17. ↑ "Darlington victory in poor encounter". Liverpool Echo. 11 April 1931. p. 9.
  18. ↑ "Darlington's retained". Northern Daily Mail. West Hartlepool. 25 April 1931. p. 7.
  19. ↑ "Sports notes". Northern Daily Mail. West Hartlepool. 2 October 1931. p. 9.
  20. ↑ "Player search: Boland, G (Dicky)". English National Football Archive. Retrieved 7 March 2021.
  21. ↑ "Wallsend win at home". Shields Daily News. 18 April 1932. p. 5.
  22. ↑ "Gateshead's big cut". Sunderland Echo. 29 April 1932. p. 9.

Sources

  • Tweddle, Frank (2000). The Definitive Darlington F.C. Nottingham: Soccerdata. ISBN 978-1-899468-15-7.
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