Bill Allen (soccer player)

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Bill Allen
Personnel
Surname William Allen
birthday October 22, 1917
place of birth Newburn ,  England
date of death May 21, 1981
Place of death Westerhope ,  England
position Center forward , half forward , outside runner
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
Throckley Welfare
1937-1939 Chesterfield FC 2 0(0)
1939-1950 York city 130 (23)
1950-1952 Scunthorpe & Lindsey United 64 0(1)
Goole Town
1 Only league games are given.

William "Bill" Allen (born October 22, 1917 in Newburn , † May 21, 1981 in Westerhope ) was an English football player .

Career

Allen came in November 1937 from the North-Eastern League of Throckley Welfare to the second division Chesterfield FC , but remained largely limited to the reserve team, the inner trio in the first team at that time were Peter Ramage , Dudley Milligan and Tom Lyon . After his Football League debut on August 27, 1938 in a 1: 3 away defeat against Millwall FC , only one more use followed during the rest of the season.

For the 1939/40 season Allen moved to the Third Division North to York City and scored both goals at the start of the season in a 2-2 draw against Chester FC . Due to the outbreak of World War II, the season was canceled after the third match day and Allen, who served in the army during the war, only played in the seasons 1939/40 (6 missions / 4 goals) and 1945/46 (20/12) Games for York in the war-related substitute competitions. When regular play was resumed for the 1946/47 season, Allen was again at the start of the season against Chester (played according to the schedules of the 1939/40 season) in the team and scored a goal at 4: 4. While he was called up as a center forward or half- forward in the first post-war season and had scored 13 goals this season, he moved to the position of the left outer runner in the course of the 1947/48 season and was part of the permanent staff for three seasons.

For the season 1950/51 strengthened the newly included in the Football League club Scunthorpe & Lindsey United with the experienced player. Allen formed the runner row in the first Football League game in the club's history with Dick Taylor and Joe McCormick ; as the season went on, McCormick lost his seat to Jack Hubbard and Allen moved from right to left. From the fall of 1951, all of the appearances became more sporadic, even in the third round match in the FA Cup 1951/52 against reigning champions Tottenham Hotspur (final score 0: 3), he was not included in the squad. At the end of the season, Allen left the club and ended his career in non-league football at Goole Town .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Bill Allen in the barryhugmansfootballers.com database. Retrieved August 16, 2020.
  2. ↑ Dave wind Ross, Martin Jarred: Citizens and Minstermen, A Who's Who of York City FC 1922-1997 . Citizen Publications, Selby 1997, ISBN 978-0-9531005-0-7 , pp. 6 .
  3. ↑ cf. Jack Rollin: Soccer at War 1939-45 . Headline Book Publishing, London 2005, ISBN 0-7553-1431-X , pp. 445 ff .
  4. ^ David Batters: York City - The Complete Record . Breedon Books, Derby 2008, ISBN 978-1-85983-633-0 , pp. 43 .
  5. ^ John Staff: From Nuts to Iron - The Official History of Scunthorpe United 1899-2012 . Yore Publications, Harefield 2012, ISBN 978-0-9573862-1-1 , pp. 68 .
  6. ^ John Staff: From Nuts to Iron - The Official History of Scunthorpe United 1899-2012 . Yore Publications, Harefield 2012, ISBN 978-0-9573862-1-1 , pp. 74 .
  7. ↑ according to the English National Football Archive (ENFA) , accessed on March 10, 2018
personal data
SURNAME Allen, Bill
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Allen, William (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION English soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH October 22, 1917
PLACE OF BIRTH Newburn
DATE OF DEATH May 21, 1981
Place of death Westerhope