Born: 21 March 1886

Born in: Rutherglen, Lanarkshire

Died: 1935

Other clubs: Strathclyde Juniors, Rangers (1907-08), Blackburn Rovers (1908-09), Chesterfield Town (1909-11), Linfield (1914-16)

Signed from: Chesterfield Town

Joined Liverpool: 20.04.1911

Debut: 04 Sep 1911

Final appearance: 25 Oct 1913

Debut goal: 04 Nov 1911

Last goal: 06 Jan 1912

Contract until: 14.05.1914

League: Apps / Goals: 27 / 7

All Competitions: Apps / Goals: 29 / 7

Player Profile

When Chesterfield lost its League status, fiery-tempered Bovill stayed with the club, scoring 31 goals in 77 Midland league games. Bovill made 29 appearances for Liverpool in the period leading up to World War I. The bulk of those games were in the 1911/12 season when he scored seven times from 25 matches. He was to make only a further four appearances for the club in the next two seasons, the club programme complaining that his main fault was "lack of deadliness in front of goal", but his main strength being a "hard worker" and delivering "neat, low forward passes of value to his partners". In May 1914 Bovill transferred to Linfield, playing for them for two seasons in the Irish league.