Ted Dalton

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Ted Dalton
Personnel
Surname Edward Dalton
birthday 2nd quarter 1882
place of birth ManchesterEngland
position defender
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
Pendlebury FC
1905-1908 Manchester United 1 (0)
1908 Pendlebury FC
1908-1909 Brighton & Hove Albion 13 (0)
St Helens Recreation
Chorley FC
FC Pontypridd
Vernon Athletic
1 Only league games are given.

Edward "Ted" Dalton (* 2nd quarter 1882 in Manchester ; † unknown) was an English football player .

Career

Dalton played for Pendlebury in the Manchester area before joining Manchester United as an amateur in September 1905 . In January 1906 he turned professional, played until the end of the season when the club first rose from the Second Division to the First Division , but no game. His only competitive appearance for the first team of Manchester United Dalton completed on March 25, 1908 of the championship season 1907/08 . After the failure of the regular defenders Herbert Burgess and Dick Holden , he and George Stacey formed the defender pair in a 4-7 defeat at Liverpool . The press subsequently wrote that he had been “outclassed” and that his performance was rated “very poor”.

At the end of the season Dalton left Manchester United, played briefly again for Pendlebury before joining the southern English club Brighton & Hove Albion for one season in October 1908 . Dalton played six games in the Southern League and another seven games in the Western League during the season , but against his rivals Joe Leeming , Tom Stewart and Tom Turner , he was usually only the reserve role.

He then continued his career first at St Helens Recreation and FC Chorley in the Lancashire Combination , later he played for FC Pontypridd again in the Southern League and at Vernon Athletic , a club from Brighton .

Individual evidence

  1. a b 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 , p. 100 .
  2. WITH MANCHESTER UNITED. . In: Cricket and Football Field , March 28, 1908, p. 10.  (paid link)
  3. REMARKABLE SCORING. . In: Manchester Courier and Lancashire General Advertiser , March 26, 1908, p. 2.  (paid link)
  4. Tim Carder, Roger Harris: Albion A – Z - A Who's Who of Brighton & Hove Albion FC Goldstone Books, Brighton 1997, ISBN 0-9521337-1-7 , pp. 66 .