5'10.5" 12st.

b. Forfar 29 December 1881

d. Blackburn 4 February 1937

Debut 21 March 1903 (21y 82d) Final Game 8 April 1907 (25y 100d)

First Goal 4 April 1903 Final Goal 8 December 1906

CAREER: St Johnstone;East Stirling;Everton Jan'02[10-3];Blackburn Rovers Mar'03 (£200);Brentford Jul'07[30-22];Leeds City Apr'08 (£300)[15-6];Brentford May'09;Portsmouth Nov'09 (exchange McCafferty);Forfar Athletic '10;Leith Athletic '11;Accrington Stanley Mar'12.

FL          99 apps   42 gls  3g 1

FAC        5  apps    1 gl

Total  104  apps  43 gls

Strike rate 218m

LC        11 apps     7 gls  3g 1

Regarded by many critics as a potentially great player, Bowman never lived up to expectations. A thick set man he was mobile and played with intelligence and had one of the most powerful long range shots in the game. Although respected in the game he was never popular with the crowd because of his reluctance to chase round the field. They may have had a point because he had put on a stone and a half by the time he left for Brentford. He later returned to Blackburn and was licensee at a variety of public houses, the Lord Nelson Hotel in Salford, Blackburn, the Mill Hill Hotel, the Toll Bar Inn on Whalley Old Road, the Clarence Hotel on Lord Street and finally from 1919 to 1934 the Cemetery Hotel.