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Rupert Cawthorne
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Rupert Cawthorne (13 April 1879 – 1965) was an English professional footballer who played as a centre half or full back. He played in the Football League for Darwen and Burnley and in non-league football for clubs including Clitheroe Central and Bacup.
Rupert Cawthorne was born on 13 April 1879 in Clitheroe, Lancashire, to Elijah Sylvester Newton Cawthorne, a professional artist and teacher of painting and drawing, and his wife, Louisa née Price. Cawthorne had four older brothers who all played football in the Clitheroe area, one of whom, Fred, followed in his father's footsteps and became well known locally as a portraitist and particularly as a landscape painter.
Cawthorne spent four seasons with local junior club Queen's Park before joining Football League Second Division club Darwen for the 1898–99 season. Both club and team were struggling. Over the 34-match season they conceded 141 goals, lost 18 consecutive matches, and were beaten 10–0 on three occasions; it would be their last season in the Football League. According to the Athletic News, he made a very promising display on his debut on 25 February 1899, playing at left back at home to Glossop North End. He played in nine more matches, including Darwen's last at Football League level, in which he and full-back partner Thomas Woolfall were "fast, cool and clever" as Darwen secured a 1–1 draw with Newton Heath - soon to rename themselves Manchester United.
He enlisted in the 11th Hussars in 1900; his record describes him as in height, physically well developed, with brown hair, grey eyes and a fresh complexion. The 1901 census finds him stationed in Canterbury Barracks. In October 1902, his father bought him out of the Army for £10.
When he returned home, he helped Clitheroe Congregational finish top of the Blackburn and District Sunday School League. The club renamed itself Clitheroe Central and joined the Lancashire Combination in 1903, and Cawthorne remained a loyal, consistent and popular player.
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