6'0"  11st.
b. Cowling 9 March 1907
d. Rochdale JFM 1977
 

Debut  15 March 1930 (23y 6d) Final Game 14 March 1936 (29y 5d)
CAREER: Todmorden School;Knott United;Lydgate;Portsmouth Rovers Oct'25;Burnley (trial);Preston North End (trial);Halifax Town Apr'28 (am) Jun'28 (pro)[34];Blackburn Rovers Jan'30-May'33 (£1,500);Workington Aug'33 (temporary);Blackburn Rovers Oct'33;Barnsley Dec'36 (£500)[94];Carlisle United '45;Gainsborough Trinity.
 

FL          183 apps                    1 og
FAC         13 apps
Total    196 apps                    1 og
Penalty record F 20 Sc 13 Sv 4 M 4 Sv-R 1
Minutes per goal  44  Clean Sheet % 20
Longest unbeaten  250m  First conceded 46m
LC           5 apps  
Penalty record F 1 Sc 1
Minutes per goal 45
Most goals one game   4
 

Binns was born in Cowling near Keighley but was brought up in nearby Sutton in Craven. A classy goalkeeper with safe hands he became a regular when signed from Halifax and gave great satisfaction until the emergence of the potentially brilliant Billy Gormlie. When Gormlie's roller coaster career was blighted by injury the Rovers moved quickly to bring Binns back from exile in Workington. A fixture until he was seriously injured in 1936 he left the club suddenly when Barnsley needed a replacement goalkeeper. This move was acknowledged as a mistake because Binns was so brilliant in Yorkshire that the Rovers tried to buy him back. When the war started he worked as a surface worker at a colliery in Barnsley. In the war years he played for Halifax, Leeds, Lincoln and Carlisle before returning to his poultry farm in Portsmouth, near Todmorden.