Joe Caven
Personal information
Full name John Brown Caven[1]
Date of birth (1936-10-11)11 October 1936
Place of birth Kirkintilloch, Scotland
Date of death 13 August 2023(2023-08-13) (aged 86)
Position(s) Centre forward
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1956–1962 Airdrieonians 83 (42)
1962 Brighton & Hove Albion 10 (0)
1962–1963 Raith Rovers 11 (4)
1963–1965 Greenock Morton 41 (18)
1965–1966 Addington 15 (14)
1966 Germiston Callies 17 (8)
1966–1967 Stirling Albion 3 (0)
Total 180 (86)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

John Brown "Joe" Caven (11 October 1936 – 13 August 2023) was a Scottish footballer, best known for playing with Greenock Morton[2] and Airdrieonians in the Scottish Football League. He was a centre forward.

Born in Kirkintilloch, Caven also played for Airdrie, Brighton & Hove Albion,[3] Raith Rovers, Greenock Morton, and Stirling Albion, with a short time in South Africa playing for Addington and Germiston Callies.[4][5]

Having been given a free transfer by Raith Rovers at the end of the 1962–63 season, in July 1963, Caven signed for Inverness Caledonian, a Highland Football League club at that time, on the basis that if a Scottish League club came along for him he would be released from his contract by Inverness Caledonian. Within weeks after signing for Inverness Caledonian, Greenock Morton signed Caven and therefore he never appeared for Inverness Caledonian in the Highland Football League. Caven later lived in Nairn, near Inverness, in the North of Scotland.

Caven died in 13 August 2023, at the age of 86.[6][7]

  • Joe Caven at Post War English & Scottish Football League A–Z Player's Database

References

  1. ↑ "Joe Caven". Barry Hugman's Footballers. Retrieved 23 February 2017.
  2. ↑ "Revival of Ton". Greenock Telegraph. 6 July 2009. Retrieved 8 December 2009.
  3. ↑ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 24 September 2014. Retrieved 23 February 2015.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  4. ↑ "scottish-football-historical-archive.com". www.scottish-football-historical-archive.com. Retrieved 17 April 2018.
  5. ↑ "Germiston Callies F.C. Driehoek Stadium, Germiston, South Africa". www.facebook.com. Retrieved 17 April 2018.
  6. ↑ "RIP to Greenock Morton FC Legend and Honorary Member of Port Glasgow Morton Travel Club Mr Joe Caven". Port Glasgow Morton Travel Club on Facebook. Retrieved 13 August 2023.
  7. ↑ "Joe Caven: Tributes as ex-Morton hero dies aged 86". Greenock Telegraph. 15 August 2023. Retrieved 15 August 2023.


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