Background
Travers was born in Newtown, Birmingham, and attended Birchfield Road School in nearby Aston.
Travers was born in Newtown, Birmingham, and attended Birchfield Road School in nearby Aston.
He made 164 appearances in the Football League, representing a number of clubs prior to and just after the First World War. He began his football career with local teams Bilston United and Rowley United before joining Wolverhampton Wanderers in 1906. He made no league appearances for the club before moving on to Birmingham, where he spent eighteen months and played only twice for the first team
Transferred to Aston Villa in a part-exchange deal involving Jack Wilcox, he marked his debut in December 1908 with a hat-trick, but played only three more league games, leaving for Queens Park Rangers, then a Southern League club, at the end of the 1908-1909 season.
A year in London, during which he scored 7 goals from 34 appearances in the League (8 from 41 in all competitions), preceded six months with Leicester Fosse before a more long-lasting move, to of the Second Division, in January 1911. The Manchester Guardian"s report of the replay praised his shots at goal.
After three years at he joined Manchester United, for whom he played 21 games, scoring four goals. After the war he joined Swindon Town, playing 34 games in their last season in the Southern League and scoring 14 goals, which made him the club"s second-highest scorer for the season.
Returning to the Football League, he spent a few months with Millwall of the newly formed Third Division and the remainder of the 1920-1921 season with rivals Norwich City.
He finished his league career in the 1921-1922 season at Gillingham, then returned to non-League football with Nuneaton Town and Cradley Street Luke"s, finally calling time on his career with his first club, Bilston United, in May 1931 at the age of 42. Travers died in Smethwick, Staffordshire, on 31 August 1946 at the age of 57.