Dick Allman

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Dick Allman
Personnel
Surname Messina Wilson Allman
birthday April 5, 1883
place of birth Burslem ,  England
date of death 1943
Place of death Croydon ,  England
position Half forward , center forward
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
Burslem Park Boys
Burslem Higherhave
1903-1905 Burslem Port Vale 35 (11)
1905-1907 Reading FC 61 (17)
1907 Portsmouth FC 1 0(0)
1907-1908 Plymouth Argyle 19 0(6)
1908-1909 Liverpool FC 1 0(0)
1909-1910 Wrexham AFC 33 (15)
Clay pentre
Grantham FC at least 1 0(0)
1911-1912 Leicester Fosse 7 0(3)
1912-1916 Croydon Common 79 (21)
1919-1920 Crystal Palace
1920– Maidstone United
1 Only league games are given.

Messina Wilson "Dick" Allman (born April 5, 1883 in Burslem , England , † 1943 in Croydon ) was an English football player .

Career

Allman, a professional pot painter, came to the professional club Burslem Port Vale in the Football League Second Division in April 1903 and made his debut on November 28, 1903 as a center forward in the five-round qualifier of the FA Cup against Nantwich. In the further course of the season he came only sporadically, but was a regular player in the following 1904/05 season and ended the season with eight goals as the team's top scorer. In May 1905 he moved to the Southern League for Reading FC then in May 1907 to league rivals FC Portsmouth , but already in November 1907 again within the league to Plymouth Argyle , with which he finished second at the end of the season.

In July 1908 he moved to the north of England for Liverpool , but came only to one use in the Football League First Division and left the club in the same year. He was then active in the Birmingham & District League for AFC Wrexham (33 league games / 15 goals), for which he contributed the winning goal in the final of the Welsh Cup in 1910 to the 2-1 final over Chester City . After stays at Ton Pentre and Grantham FC , he joined his third club in the Football League in November 1911, and he made seven appearances for second division Leicester Fosse between November 1911 and January 1912, although Allman scored three goals but failed to win. His last appearance for Leicester was an away game against Grimsby Town when six Leicester players, including Allman, left the field prematurely due to the bad weather.

In the summer of 1912 he returned to the Southern League and played for Croydon Common . Until the end of the game operations due to the First World War , the Allman, now used as a half-striker , scored 21 goals in 79 league games for the club and won the division 2 championship of the Southern League in 1913/14 . In the London Combination , launched as a war-related replacement competition , he scored four more times in 32 missions for Croydon in 1915/16, including the last goal in the club's history before it was dissolved in 1917. After the outbreak of World War I, Allman had volunteered for military service in 1915 and served in France; as a guest player he was active in the years 1916/1917 at Watford FC and Arsenal FC in some games of the London Combination. After his discharge from military service in 1919, he was still active as a reserve player on the center runner position for Crystal Palace and Maidstone United .

literature

  • Michael Joyce: Football League Players' Records 1888 to 1939 . 2nd revised edition. Soccerdata, Nottingham 2004, ISBN 1-899468-67-6 , pp. 8 .
  • Jeff Kent: Port Vale Personalities - A Biographical Dictionary of Players, Officials and Supporters . Witan Books, Stafford 1996, ISBN 0-9529152-0-0 , pp. 6 .
  • Doug Lamming: Who's Who of Liverpool 1892–1989 . Breedon Books, Derby 1989, ISBN 0-907969-55-0 , pp. 12 .
  • Paul Taylor, Dave Smith: The Foxes Alphabet - A Complete Who's Who of Leicester City Football Club . Polar Print Group Ltd, Leicester 1995, ISBN 1-899538-06-2 , p. 12 f .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Taylor & Smith, p. 13.
  2. ↑ a b Kent, p. 6.
  3. ↑ Lamming, p. 12.
  4. ^ Gareth M. Davies & Peter Jones: The Racecourse Robins from Adams to Youds . Gareth M. Davies and Peter Jones, Ynys Mon 1999, ISBN 0-9524950-1-5 , pp. 422 .
  5. ↑ wfda.co.uk: WELSH CUP FINAL 1909/10. ( Memento from April 15, 2009 in the Internet Archive )
  6. ^ Jon Barnes: The Who's Who of Grantham Town Football Club . Gingerjonny Publications, Taunton 2005, ISBN 0-9545031-1-2 , pp. 3 .
  7. ↑ a b c Profile on a page on Croydon Common ( PDF ; 912 kB).
personal data
SURNAME Allman, Dick
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Allman, Messina Wilson
BRIEF DESCRIPTION English soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH April 5, 1883
PLACE OF BIRTH Burslem , England
DATE OF DEATH 1943
Place of death Croydon