In 1911–12, Travis scored 31 goals from 33 matches as
Hurst won the
Manchester League with three matches to spare, and "scored twice and led the attack in fine style" in the semi-final to help his team reach the final of the
Manchester Junior Cup, in which they beat Wilmslow 2–0. He then joined
Southern League club
Norwich City, and made his debut on 12 October 1912 at home to
Portsmouth; the
Evening News reported that "young Travis did very well in the centre, and was always on target with his shots". He finished the season with two goals from ten first-team appearances, and after a couple of months back with Hurst in the
Lancashire Combination, he signed for reigning
North-Eastern League champions
Darlington. Travis scored freely until the end of the season, his goal return including four of Darlington's five against
Carlisle United in February. In a match against
Wallsend, he and an opponent were sent off for fighting. Both players denied the charge, and witnesses supported their version of events, but they were both suspended for seven days from the start of the 1914–15 season. His prolific scoring continued. By early January 1915, he had 32 league goals, and by mid-March, when he signed for
First Division club
Manchester United, he had reached 38. He made his Manchester United debut for their
reserve team at home to
Burnley reserves in
the Central League: he scored a
hat-trick. When league football was suspended at the end of the season for the duration of the First World War, he had not played for their first team. but also for other clubs, including
Tranmere Rovers and his former club Hurst. and twice as his club eliminated his former club Norwich City from the FA Cup. Drawn against First Division
Sheffield Wednesday in the first round proper, Travis had a goal disallowed because
Dick Healey was standing in an
offside position; the match finished goalless. He did not play in the replay, which Darlington won 2–0, but had returned to the side for the second-round visit to
Birmingham, which they lost 4–0. He scored the only goal of the
Durham Senior Cup final against
Durham City. In 1920–21, Darlington again reached the first round proper of the FA Cup, and again took their Football League opponents to a replay. Travis came into the team at
inside right against
Blackpool and scored, but Darlington went out 2–1. In the league, they went one better than the previous season, won their second North-Eastern League title, and were elected to the newly formed
Northern Section of the Third Division. Travis was not a regular in the Football League side. He played eleven matches and scored six goals, five of which came over the Christmas and New Year period: both goals of a 2–0 win at
Lincoln City, one of five against
Walsall, and two of five against
Ashington. Press rumours suggesting that Travis and
Arthur Wolstenholme had been offered in exchange for a
Hartlepools United player were partly denied: the Darlington club secretary insisted that Wolstenholme was unavailable "to Hartlepools or any other club". Travis played occasionally at the end of the season, and had to take over in goal at
Southport Central in April when
Andy Greig broke his arm. He returned home at the end of the season, and played local football for Hurst Albion and Ashton PSI. ==References==