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Charles Caborn

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Charles Caborn
Personal information
Full name Charles John Caborn
Date of birth 25 October 1856
Place of birth Nottingham
Position(s) Back
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
Nottingham Castle
1878-1888 Nottingham Forest
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Charles John Caborn (born 1856) was an English footballer who played for Nottingham Forest.[1] He was educated at Nottingham High School.[2]

Caborn played for Nottingham Castle FC and captained them from 1876. He moved to Forest when the Castle club disbanded in 1878.[2]

Caborn was a back for Nottingham Forest and made 32 FA Cup appearances as well as in many friendly games.[1] There was no league in these seasons. He appeared in the first known photograph of Nottingham Forest for the season 1878-79.[1]

His first known appearance was on 14 October 1878 in a friendly against Stoke and made his competitive debut in Forest's first-ever FA Cup 1st Round against Notts County.[1]

He played in the Nottingham Forest side that are the only English team to play an FA Cup Semi-Final in Scotland when they played Queens Park in Edinburgh in the 1885.[1]

References

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  1. ^ a b c d e Smales, Ken (2006). Nottingham Forest The Official Statistical History. Pineapple Books.
  2. ^ a b Wright, Don (2015). Forever Forest: The Official 150th Anniversary History of the Original Reds. Amberley Publishing Limited.