Albert Keetley (football player, 1885)

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Albert Keetley
Personnel
Surname Albert Edward Keetley
birthday June 8, 1885
place of birth Derby ,  England
date of death 3rd quarter 1946
Place of death Derby ,  England
position Storm
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
1906-1908 Burton United
1 Only league games are given.

Albert Edward Keetley (born June 8, 1885 in Derby ; † 3rd quarter 1946 ibid) was an English football player .

Career

Keetley was born the second oldest child in a family of eleven sons, eight of whom became professional footballers. Albert was one of six brothers who played in the Football League , along with Charlie , Frank , Harold , Joe and Tom .

Keetley also played baseball in his youth , receiving a medal from the National Baseball Association in 1900 . At the end of 1906 he received an invitation from the Football League Second Division playing club Burton United to practice training and scored the only goal of the game in a game of the reserve team. Burton then signed Keetley, which prompted Derby County , who claimed to already have Keetley under contract. Since Derby Keetley had only offered a month-long trial training, Keetley was able to accumulate on December 1, 1906 as a right half- forward instead of Fergus Hunt against Glossop FC . The game in which Keetley was certified by Athletic News as a "moderate game" ended in a 2-1 defeat. Keetley had his second and final season appearance for Burton on December 25, 1906 as a right winger in a 2-0 defeat at eventual champions Nottingham Forest . Burton finished at the end of the second division season 1906/07 the last table rank and had to apply for re-election by the league members for the third year in a row to remain in the league, which failed.

The club subsequently played in the Birmingham & District League , in which Keetley played several times for Burton in the 1907/08 season. He was still a Derby resident in the 1911 census and made a living in metalworking for the Midland Railway .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Rod Evans: The Original Burton Leaguers: The Definitive Burton Swifts, Wanderers and United 1892 to 1907 . Soccerdata, Nottingham 2015, ISBN 978-1-905891-98-6 , pp. 105 .
  2. ↑ GLOSSOP'S AWAKENING. . In: Athletic News , December 3, 1906, p. 3.  (link with costs)
personal data
SURNAME Keetley, Albert
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Keetley, Albert Edward (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION English soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH June 8, 1885
PLACE OF BIRTH Derby
DATE OF DEATH between July 1946 and September 1946
Place of death Derby