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Turning Professional, from 1888
Humphrey Barbour
ForwardFrom 1888
No individual photograph is known to survive for Humphrey Barbour; see the note on the players index for why we use a plain card rather than guess.
A Scot who'd played for Third Lanark and Airdrie before crossing to Woolwich around 1888, Barbour is one of the earliest Arsenal players for whom a real scoring record survives, at a period when the team was quietly paying its players in defiance of amateur football's rules: the beginning of the road to professionalism the club would formally adopt in 1893.
At Arsenal
Appearances
71
Goals
59