Ernest Bacon (soccer player)

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Ernest Bacon
Personnel
Surname Ernest Frederick Bacon
birthday February 19, 1896
place of birth Leicester ,  England
date of death January 9, 1972
Place of death Aylestone ,  England
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
St Andrews
1919-1920 Leicester City 4 (0)
1920-1921 Watford FC 12 (0)
1921-1923 Charlton Athletic 5 (0)
1923-1924 Nuneaton Town 4 (1)
1924-1928 Barwell United
1928-1929 Erith & Belvedere
1929– Calling Athletic
National team
Years selection Games (goals)
England pupil
1 Only league games are given.

Ernest Frederick Bacon (born February 19, 1896 in Leicester , † January 9, 1972 in Aylestone , Leicester) was an English football player .

Career

Bacon played for the English national school team, but his career in the men's field was delayed by the First World War . After serving in the military from 1915 to 1919, during which time he also appeared as a guest player for Coventry City , he made his debut for Leicester City as a right wing runner in the Football League Second Division in September 1919 at the age of 23 . By the end of the season it was only enough for four missions and Bacon therefore moved to Watford FC in May 1920 . Watford was to be included in the newly created Football League Third Division for the season 1920/21 and Bacon was the right wing runner in the first Football League game in the club's history. Even at Watford, he did not manage to stay permanently in the team and never played more than three games in a row.

Already after a year Bacon left Watford again and was obliged by the East London club Charlton Athletic , which in 1921 was also included in the now called Third Division South . Even at Charlton Athletic, he was now in the defensive position, only sporadically in the Football League for use, after three missions in the 1921/22 season, only two more appearances followed in 1922/23. As in his previous stations, he mainly played for the reserve team.

1923 Bacon moved to non-league football and played there first for one season at Nuneaton Town in the Birmingham & District League . It followed several years for Barwell United in the Leicestershire Senior League , with which he won the league championship in 1926. 1928/29 he played for one season with Erith & Belvedere in the Kent League ; Callender Athletic is known as his last documented station .

literature

  • 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. 21 .
  • Colin Cameron: The Valiant 500 . Colin Cameron, Sidcup 1991, ISBN 978-0-9517729-0-4 , pp. 11 .
  • Trefor Jones: The Watford Football Club Illustrated Who's Who . TG Jones, Twickenham 1996, ISBN 0-9527458-0-1 , pp. 28 .
  • Michael Joyce: Football League Players' Records 1888 to 1939 . 2nd revised edition. Soccerdata, Nottingham 2004, ISBN 1-899468-67-6 , pp. 13 .

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personal data
SURNAME Bacon, Ernest
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bacon, Ernest Frederick (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION English soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH February 19, 1896
PLACE OF BIRTH Leicester
DATE OF DEATH January 9, 1972
Place of death Aylestone