5'7.5"  10st.7lb.
b. Cardross, Renton 6 June 1867
d. Blackburn 15 November 1915
 

Debut  7 September 1889 (22y 93d) Final Game 31 March 1894 (26y 298d)
First Goal 7 September 1889 Final Goal 3 March 1894
CAREER: Athletic (Renton);Renton Thistle '85;Renton '86;Blackburn Rovers 'Jul 89-'94.
INTERNATIONALS    Scotland  1 app
’89 v Wal.
HONOURS SC Cp win ’88 (Renton). FA cp win (Blackburn Rovers) ’90.
 

FL          98 apps  22 gls
FAC      16 apps    4 gls
Total  114 apps  26 gls  et 30m
Strike rate 396m
LC        16 apps   1 gl
 

Campbell was a complete inside forward in the manner that only Scottish players were at the time. He had gained a Scottish cup winners' medal with Renton and became the first man to replicate the feat south of the border when the Rovers won the cup in 1890. He would have added to that the following year but was taken ill with pneumonia in the dressing room and had to be rushed to hospital. For two days his life was in danger but the club booked him into the Covent Garden Hydro Hospital with a personal nurse and he survived. A playmaker it was said of him that "a partner or centre forward who could not shine when Campbell was alongside him ought to secure some other occupation." It had been anticipated when he moved south that his play would improve because he no longer had to work in the dye works but he never quite found the form that made him so great at Renton. He remained in Blackburn and worked as a steward in the Reform Club until a year before he died.