Reginald Keating (14 May 1904 – 13 October 1961) was an English professional

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who scored 42 goals in 103 appearances in

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Life and career

Keating was born in

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. He began his playing career in local football in the

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area before joining

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, his first professional club, in October 1926. He was released in 1927 without playing for the first team, and embarked on a tour of league and non-league clubs: Lincoln City, where he made his debut in

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, Stockport County,

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, where he scored his first Football League goal, Norwich City, where he was one of five new forwards signed in the 1932 close season to add to the six already on the club's books, North Shields, and Bath City, eventually, at the age of 30, settling at

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. In two and a half seasons at Ninian Park, Keating, a pacy right-sided or

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, scored 35 league goals at a rate of one every other game, and was their leading goalscorer in each of his full seasons with the club. He went on to play for Doncaster Rovers,

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and

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, and retired in 1939. He later acted as a

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for

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, in which role he was instrumental in Howard Kendall joining the club. Keating, the younger brother of

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and Cardiff City (among others) forward

Albert Keating Albert Edward Keating (28 June 1902 – 18 October 1984) was an English footballer who played as an inside left. He made 175 Football League appearances in the years after the First World War. Career Keating played locally for Prudhoe Castle, ...

, died in

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in 1961 at the age of 57.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Keating, Reg 1904 births 1961 deaths Footballers from Leeds English men's footballers Men's association football forwards Annfield Plain F.C. players Newcastle United F.C. players Lincoln City F.C. players Gainsborough Trinity F.C. players Scarborough F.C. players Stockport County F.C. players Birmingham City F.C. players Norwich City F.C. players North Shields F.C. players Bath City F.C. players Cardiff City F.C. players Doncaster Rovers F.C. players AFC Bournemouth players Carlisle United F.C. players English Football League players