Allenby Chilton

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Allenby Chilton
Personnel
Surname Allenby C. Chilton
birthday September 16, 1918
place of birth Sunderland ,  England
date of death June 16, 1996
Place of death Sunderland ,  England
size 185 cm
position Middle runner
Juniors
Years station
until 1938 Seaham Colliery
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
1938-1955 Manchester United 352 (3)
1955-1956 Grimsby Town 63 (0)
National team
Years selection Games (goals)
1950-1951 England 2 (0)
Stations as a trainer
Years station
1955-1959 Grimsby Town
1960-1961 Wigan Athletic
1962-1963 Hartlepools United
1 Only league games are given.

Allenby C. Chilton (born September 16, 1918 in Sunderland , † June 16, 1996 ibid) was an English football player and coach . As a middle runner he won the FA Cup with Manchester United in 1948 and the English championship four years later .

Athletic career

Chilton, who came from the north-east of England, joined the first division club Manchester United in November 1938 . However, the dream of a professional career suffered a serious setback shortly afterwards, when it played a championship game for the first time against Charlton Athletic on September 2, 1939 , but the day after the United Kingdom declared war on Germany in response to the attack on Poland. As a result, English league football was suspended for seven years and Chilton also took part in the fighting. Although he was wounded in Normandy , he appeared on several occasions in his homeland at various clubs as a guest player and in the war season 1943/44 he won the southern edition of the Football League War Cup with Charlton Athletic . The final opponent in front of 85,000 spectators at Wembley Stadium was Chelsea .

After the end of the Second World War , he first completed his first compulsory encounter on January 5, 1946 against Accrington Stanley (2-2) in the FA Cup and after resuming league operations for the 1946/47 season, he played himself in the position of center runner in the main lineup of ManUnited . At the beginning it was not very popular with the domestic followers and in the meantime they thought about a boxing career. After six months in the ring, he returned to football and coach Matt Busby , who valued the physically robust Chilton very much, entrusted him with the responsible role of "center-half". The first major title win was the FA Cup in 1948 and when the "Red Devils" won the English championship four years later , he did not miss any of 42 league games. He was considered the backbone of the defensive network of Manchester United and shortly thereafter he followed Johnny Carey as team captain. When he lost his regular place to Mark Jones - one of the " Busby Babes " who shaped the next generation change - in February 1955 , a series of 166 uninterrupted league appearances ended. This was also a club record, which only Steve Coppell improved during the 1980/81 season. At the zenith of his football career around 1950, Chilton also completed two international matches for the English national team against Northern Ireland (4: 1 on October 7, 1950) and France (2: 2 on October 3, 1951). He was also nominated for the English squad for the 1954 World Cup in Switzerland , but as a substitute he was only "on call" at home.

In March 1955, Chilton left Manchester United for Grimsby Town . From the end of the 1954/55 season he initially acted as a player- coach and under his direction the third division improved from the penultimate rank to champion and promoted 1956 . After eight more league games in the 1956/57 season ended his active career and until April 1959 he looked after the "Mariners" as a full-time coach (the 1958/59 season ended with relegation ). The last stations in professional football were Wigan Athletic in the 1960/61 season and then Hartlepools United (first as a scout and in the 1962/63 season as a coach).

After retiring from the football business, he returned to Sunderland. There he first ran a restaurant and later he worked for Coles Cranes . In mid-June 1996 he died at the age of 77 in the Sunderland district of Southwick of complications from a stroke.

Title / Awards

literature

  • Hayes, Dean P .: England! England! The Complete Who's Who of Players since 1946 . Sutton Publishing, 2004, ISBN 0-7509-3234-1 , pp. 50 f .

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personal data
SURNAME Chilton, Allenby
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Chilton, Allenby C.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION English soccer player and coach
DATE OF BIRTH September 16, 1918
PLACE OF BIRTH Sunderland
DATE OF DEATH June 16, 1996
Place of death Sunderland