Alfred Ambler
| Alfred Ambler | ||
| Personnel | ||
|---|---|---|
| Surname | Alfred G. Ambler | |
| birthday | May 28, 1879 | |
| place of birth | Manchester , England | |
| date of death | 1940 | |
| position | External rotor (left, right) | |
| Men's | ||
| Years | station | Games (goals) 1 |
| Hawktown Juniors | ||
| Hyde United | ||
| 1899-1902 | Newton Heath | 10 (1) |
| FC Colne | ||
| 1906-1908 | Stockport County | 24 (0) |
| 1908-1910 | Exeter City | 56 (0) |
| FC Colne | ||
| 1 Only league games are given. | ||
Alfred G. Ambler (born May 28, 1879 in Manchester , † 1940 ) was an English football player .
Career
Ambler played as a youth for the Hawktown Juniors , with whom he won the Ramsbottom and District League and the Manchester Junior League . After a stay at Hyde United , he switched to the professional sector at Newton Heath in August 1899 . He made his debut in the Football League Second Division at the season opener on September 2, 1899 as a left winger . After another use on the following day, a 2-1 defeat against Bolton Wanderers , in which he scored his team's goal, he was no longer considered in the following months. Only after several injury-related failures did he move back into the team as an outside runner in March 1900 , a position in which he was used both left and right and in which he came to a total of seven missions towards the end of the season. In the following season 1900/01 he ran for the club only once and in 1902 moved to non-league football for FC Colne , with whom he won the championship in the Second Division of the Lancashire Combination in 1905/06 , and then again in move professional to Stockport County .
In two seasons for Stockport, he came to another 24 missions in the Second Division of the Football League before he moved to Exeter City in south-west England in 1908 . Exeter had converted into a professional club for the 1908/09 season and was included as the successor to Tottenham Hotspur in the top season of the Southern League . After 56 league appearances in two years, he returned to Lancashire in 1910 and rejoined Colne FC .
Web links
literature
- Michael Joyce: Football League Players' Records 1888 to 1939 . 2nd revised edition. Soccerdata, Nottingham 2004, ISBN 1-899468-67-6 , pp. 9 .
- 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. 12 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Ambler, Alfred |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Ambler, Alfred G. |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | English soccer player |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 28, 1879 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Manchester |
| DATE OF DEATH | 1940 |