Bert Allen

Bert Allen
Personnel
Surname	Walter Bertram Allen
birthday	3rd quarter 1883
place of birth	Brimfield ,  England
date of death	December 31, 1910
Place of death	Brimfield ,  England
position	Winger (right)
Men's
Years	station	Games (goals) 1
	Leominster Thistle
	Leominster Juniors
	Leominster Thursday
	Leominster YMCA
	Leominster Thursday
1905-1906	Aston Villa	3 (1)
	Westbourne Celtic
1906-1907	Chesterfield Town	20 (1)
	Tenbury
	Kidderminster Harriers
	Stafford Rangers
1 Only league games are given.

Walter Bertram "Bert" Allen (* 3rd quarter 1883 in Brimfield , † December 31, 1910 ibid) was an English football player .

Career

Allen played for a number of Leominster local football clubs before being discovered by Aston Villa when their third team was playing in Leominster. After successful trial training, he came to Villa at the beginning of the 1905/06 season and occupied the position of right winger in the reserve team in the Birmingham & District League , which the team finished as champions.

His rise and fall on Aston Villa's first division team was extremely rapid. When the regular right winger Billy Brawn failed in early November 1905 for the league game against Middlesbrough FC , Allen took his place and contributed a goal to a 4-1 victory. The press then gave him “a lot of skill” and an “outstanding performance”. Only one game later, a 2-0 defeat at Preston North End , and the assessment of Allen had turned in the press and responsible, although he formed two days later in a 1-0 away win against FC Stoke together again Billy Garraty on the right offensive side, but subsequently the club officials preferred to rely on George Garratt on the right wing.

After his engagement at Aston Villa, Allen is said to have briefly played at Westbourne Celtic before joining Chesterfield Town in the Football League Second Division in late October 1906 . Introduced as a “trickier” and “faster” player who also won prizes in running competitions (among other things, he is said to have defeated the sprinters Arthur Postle and Bill Growcott in Hereford and Crewe ), he played 20 league and march 1907 between November 1906 and March 1907 3 FA Cup games for Chesterfield. His career then found its continuation in the Birmingham & District League; first with the Kidderminster Harriers and then with the Stafford Rangers . Allen fell seriously ill in 1910 and died at the age of 27 on December 31, 1910 in his birthplace. The Stafford Rangers players wore black ribbon in the following game .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ cf. Stuart Basson / cfchistory.com & The English National Football Archive (ENFA) , accessed November 26, 2017
2. ↑ In some publications, Allen is identified as William Barney Allen (* 1882 in Hockley, Birmingham; † 1946), who is said to have previously played Old Boys at Icknield Street . see. Entry in Aston Villa Player Database , accessed August 13, 2017 & Tony Matthews: The Complete Encyclopaedia of Aston Villa Football Club . Britespot Publishing, Cradley Heath 2001, ISBN 0-9539288-3-7 , pp. 5 .
3. ↑ ^{a b} DEATH OF MR. WB Allen. . In: Tenbury Wells Advertiser , January 10, 1911, p. 5.  (paid link)
4. ↑ ^{a b} Aston Villa's Young Men . In: Athletic News , November 6, 1905, p. 1.  (link subject to charge)
5. ↑ ASTON VILLA AT PRESTON. . In: Lancashire Evening Post , November 10, 1905, p. 5.  (paid link)
6. ↑ Another Crewe Diamond. . In: Athletic News , November 20, 1905, p. 1.  (link subject to charge)
7. ↑ NEW PLAYER FOR CHESTERFIELD. . In: Sheffield Daily Telegraph , October 24, 1906, p. 11.  (paid link)
8. ↑ CHESTERFIELD CHAT. . In: Sheffield Evening Telegraph , October 27, 1906, p. 6.  (paid link)
9. ↑ ^{a b} THE LATE BERT ALLEN, OF STAFFORD RANGERS. . In: Staffordshire Sentinel , January 21, 1911, p. 6.  (paid link)
10. ↑ according to The English National Football Archive (ENFA) , accessed on November 26, 2017