fullname years death_date death_place clubs birth_place caps goals position birth_date article_title name
rowland richard george harper -- -- 1910 1910 -- 19 ?? 1904 -- 1907 1907 1907 -- 1908 1908 august 1949 april 1881 birmingham , england walsall villa notts county mansfield invicta wood small heath / birmingham burton united aston lichfield , england 22 0 2 10 1 0 0 1 outside right april 1881 roly harper
 roly harper
roly harper

rowland richard george harper -lrb- april 1881 -- august 1949 -rrb- was an english professional footballer who made 34 appearances in the first division of the football league playing for birmingham , aston villa and notts county .
harper was born in lichfield , staffordshire .
he began his football career with walsall wood before joining small heath of the football league first division in 1904 .
he made his debut for the club , by then renamed birmingham , on 16 december 1905 , scoring in a 5 -- 0 win at home to nottingham forest , and played fairly regularly for the rest of that season , but lost his place to charlie tickle when the latter recovered from injury .
towards the end of the 1906 -- 07 season he moved on to burton united , but never played for the league team , and left for aston villa when burton failed to gain re-election to the football league .
harper played only twice for villa before being sold together with jimmy cantrell to notts county in march 1908 .
after making only ten league appearances in two seasons he dropped into non-league football with mansfield invicta .
harper died in birmingham in august 1949 at the age of 68 .
