Howard Gallier | |
Birth Date: | 11 June 1872 |
Birth Place: | Birmingham, England |
Death Date: | 1955 (aged 82) |
Death Place: | Bristol, England |
Position: | Forward |
Years1: | 1895–1898 |
Clubs1: | Eastville Rovers |
Years2: | 1898 |
Caps2: | 1 |
Howard Gallier (11 June 1872[1] –1955) was an association football forward, who was a key figure in the early history of Eastville Rovers Football Club (later renamed Bristol Rovers).
Gallier was born in the Aston area of Birmingham in 1872,[2] and moved to Bristol in the mid-1890s.[3] He began playing for Eastville Rovers in 1895, and was the club's top scorer for his first two seasons playing for them, netting 15 times in the 1895–96 season and a further eight times in 1896–97.[4] He played a single game for Singers F.C. (later Coventry City) in the Birmingham & District League in 1898.