Bill Berry (football player, 1884)

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Bill Berry
Personnel
Surname William Alexander Berry
birthday 3rd quarter 1884
place of birth Monkwearmouth ,  England
date of death March 1, 1943
position Center forward , winger (right)
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
Oakhill
Sunderland Royal Rovers
1902-1903 Sunderland AFC 0 (0)
1903-1906 Tottenham Hotspur 18 (1)
1906-1909 Manchester United 13 (1)
1909-1910 Stockport County 14 (3)
Sunderland Royal Rovers
1 Only league games are given.

William Alexander "Bill" Berry (born 3rd quarter 1884 in Monkwearmouth , Sunderland , † March 1, 1943 ) was an English football player .

Career

Berry played in local football from Sunderland before he joined the professional club AFC Sunderland , at that time reigning English champions, in 1902 , but remained there without a competitive game. After one season, Berry moved to Tottenham Hotspur in the Southern League . There he had one of the best players of his time in the center-forward position with Vivian Woodward . Without a chance to get past Woodward, he completed mostly games for the reserve team in the three years of his club membership. Berry, who was nicknamed Burglar (Eng. Burglar) at Tottenham , moved to Manchester United's Football League First Division in November 1906 . At Manchester, Berry was mainly used as a right winger immediately after his move , but only served as a temporary solution until Billy Meredith , who was banned until the end of the year due to a bribery scandal, was eligible to play.

In the 1907/08 season , Manchester won the national championship with the offensive series Meredith, Jimmy Bannister , Sandy Turnbull , Jimmy Turnbull and George Wall , Berry only made three appearances over the course of the season and thus remained well below the stakes necessary to receive a championship medal. In February 1909 he was finally released for transfer and went to Stockport County's Second Division . With three goals in twelve missions, he helped the club to the third from bottom position in the table by the end of the season, which avoided having to face re-election for further league membership. After another season at Stockport, his professional career ended and he returned to the Sunderland Royal Rovers in 1910 .

literature

  • Michael Joyce: Football League Players' Records 1888 to 1939 . 2nd revised edition. Soccerdata, Nottingham 2004, ISBN 1-899468-67-6 , pp. 24 .
  • Garth Dykes: The United Alphabet - A Complete Who's Who of Manchester United FC ACL & Polar Publishing Ltd., Leicester 1994, ISBN 0-9514862-6-8 , pp. 33 .
  • Bob Goodwin: The Spurs Alphabet - A Complete Who's Who of Tottenham Hotspur FC . Robwin Publishing House, West Cheshunt 2017, ISBN 978-0-9540434-2-1 , pp. 38 f .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ only missions in the Southern League
personal data
SURNAME Berry, Bill
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Berry, William Alexander (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION English soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH between July 1884 and September 1884
PLACE OF BIRTH Monkwearmouth , Sunderland , England
DATE OF DEATH March 1, 1943