Albert Bradshaw

Albert Bradshaw
Personnel
Surname	Albert Ernest Bradshaw
birthday	May 17, 1872 or 3rd quarter 1875
place of birth	Staveley or Chesterfield ,  England
date of death	1941
position	goal
Men's
Years	station	Games (goals) 1
	Eckington Works
1895-1899	Sheffield United	5 (0)
1899-1901	New Brighton Tower	27 (0)
1 Only league games are given.

Albert Ernest Bradshaw (born May 17, 1872 in Staveley or 3rd quarter 1875 in Chesterfield , † 1941 ) was an English football player . The goalkeeper played a total of 32 Football League games for Sheffield United and New Brighton Tower in the 1890s .

Career

Bradshaw was in the 1894/95 season in the goal of the Eckington Works team , with whom he played in the Sheffield & Hallamshire FA League against the reserve team from Sheffield United . In addition, after winning the southern season of the Shield Competition of the Sheffield & District League , he and Eckington also won the championship final against the northern champions, Wath, 1-0 in the replay.

In the summer of 1895 he joined the first division club Sheffield United and subsequently played mostly for the reserve team, including in September 1895 when he met his old teammates in a 6-0 win at the Sheffield Challenge Cup . Allegedly he was also involved in the reserve team championships in the Sheffield Association League , Wharncliffe Charity Cup League (both 1896/97) and the Yorkshire League (1897/98).

On his league debut for the first team on January 25, 1896, he held a penalty from Jimmy Haydock in a 1-0 defeat by Blackburn Rovers , but he did not get past the exceptional William "Fatty" Foulkes . When he won the championship in 1897/98 , he played only one game of the season - too little to receive a championship medal - and he was not used when he won the FA Cup in the 1898/99 season.

After a total of seven competitive appearances for Sheffield, he was committed to the 1899/1900 season by the ambitious second division club New Brighton Tower . He was a regular goalkeeper there for one season, but the team clearly missed the intended promotion to the first division as tenth in the table. The following season , the Scottish international Frank Barrett was committed to the goalkeeper position, so Bradshaw the season 1900/01 came only to missions in the reserve team. The club was dissolved at the end of the season, allegedly ending Bradshaw's professional career. A move to Sheffield Wednesday announced in September 1901 turned out to be a duck .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Denis Clarebrough, Andrew Kirkham: Sheffield United Football Club Who's Who . Hallamshire Press, Trowbridge 2008, ISBN 978-1-874718-69-7 , pp. 63 .
2. ↑ Life data according to the English National Football Archive (ENFA) , accessed on March 17, 2019
3. ↑ SHEFFIELD & DISTRICT LEAGUE. . In: Sheffield Independent , April 29, 1895, p. 7.  (paid link)
4. ↑ SHIELD COMPETITION - REPLAYED MATCH. WATH V ECKINGTON WORKS . In: Derbyshire Times and Chesterfield Herald , May 4, 1895, p. 3.  (paid link)
5. ↑ FOOTBALL. THE APPROACHING SEASON. SHEFFIELD UNITED PRACTICE MATCH. . In: Sheffield Independent , August 21, 1895, p. 8.  (paid link)
6. ↑ FOOTBALL. SHEFFIELD CHALLENGE CUP. SHEFFIELD UNITED RESERVES v. ECKINGTON. . In: Sheffield Independent , September 17, 1895, p. 8.  (paid link)
7. ↑ cf. Denis Clarebrough, Andrew Kirkham: Sheffield United - The Complete Record . DB Publishing, Derby 2012, ISBN 978-1-78091-019-2 , pp. 614 .
8. ↑ SHEFFIELD UNITED v. BLACKBURN ROVERS. . In: Sheffield Evening Telegraph , January 25, 1896, p. 4.  (paid link)
9. ↑ NEW BRIGHTON TOWER RESERVE v. ST. HELENS RECS. . In: Preston Herald , January 30, 1901, p. 8.  (paid link)
10. ↑ To Unfounded Rumor. . In: Sheffield Daily Telegraph , September 25, 1901, p. 10.  (paid link)