Frank Allen (soccer player, 1927)

Frank Allen
Personnel
birthday	June 28, 1927
place of birth	Shirebrook ,  England
date of death	2nd February 2014
Place of death	Chesterfield ,  England
position	Defender (left), winger , winger (left)
Men's
Years	station	Games (goals) 1
	Langwith Imperial
1948-1953	Chesterfield FC	3 (0)
1953-1955	Mansfield Town	6 (0)
	Langwith Miners Welfare
	Shirebrook Miners Welfare
1 Only league games are given.

Frank Allen (born June 28, 1927 in Shirebrook , † February 2, 2014 in Chesterfield ) was an English football player .

Career

Allen, previously a player at Langwith Imperial , was already registered as an amateur at Chesterfield FC in the 1948/49 season , and he first played in the third team in the Yorkshire League during the 1948/49 season ; mostly on the two external rotor positions . At the beginning of the 1950/51 season, Allen was still part of the Chesterfield squad as an amateur and was increasingly called up as a left winger in the second team in the Central League during the season ; in March 1951 he finally moved up to the professional. His first two appearances in the Football League Third Division North Allen denied in October 1951 instead of Pat Maxwell on left winger, but most of the season he continued to play in the two reserve teams. Allen had his third and final appearance for the first team in April 1953 in a 2-0 home win against Hartlepools United as a left defender , a position he previously held a number of times in the reserve teams.

For the 1953/54 season Allen moved to third division rivals Mansfield Town and impressed the new coach Stan Mercer in the preparation for the season . Nevertheless, he only came to a series of three missions at the end of September 1953, in the following twelve months a total of three appearances, optionally as a left runner or left defender, the two defensive positions in the left half of the field were otherwise mostly from Don Bradley and Sid Watson occupied. After six appearances in two seasons with Mansfield's first team, his time in the Football League ended , in the following years he played in the Central Alliance for Langwith Miners Welfare and together with his former Chesterfield teammate Jackie Hudson for Shirebrook Miners Welfare .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Frank Allen in the database of barryhugmansfootballers.com (English). Retrieved August 16, 2020.
2. ↑ cfchistory.com: Chesterfield FC, 1948-9 , accessed April 27, 2019 ( Microsoft Excel )
3. ↑ cfchistory.com: Chesterfield FC, 1949-50 , accessed April 27, 2019 ( Microsoft Excel )
4. ↑ CHESTERFIELD FC . In: Derbyshire Times and Chesterfield Herald , June 16, 1950, p. 10.  (paid link)
5. ↑ cfchistory.com: Chesterfield FC, 1950-1 , accessed April 27, 2019 ( Microsoft Excel )
6. ↑ Stuart Basson: Lucky Whites and Spireites: Who's Who Chesterfield FC Yore Publications, Harefield 1998, ISBN 978-1-874427-03-2 , pp. 9 .
7. ↑ IMPS MISS PENALTY BUT GET POINT . In: Star Green 'un , October 6, 1951, p. 6.  (link subject to charge)
8. ↑ cfchistory.com: Chesterfield FC, 1951-2 , accessed April 27, 2019 ( Microsoft Excel )
9. ↑ Chesterfield Up On "Pools" . In: Star Green 'un , April 25, 1953, p. 7.  (link with costs)
10. ↑ cfchistory.com: Chesterfield FC, 1952-3 , accessed April 27, 2019 ( Microsoft Excel )
11. ^ New wing half for Mansfield . In: Nottingham Journal , July 21, 1953, p. 6.  (paid link)
12. ↑ SMALL STAFF BUT STAGS ARE QUITE CONFIDENT . In: Nottingham Journal , August 19, 1953, p. 5.  (paid link)
13. ↑ cf. Stan Searl: Mansfield Town: A Complete Record, 1910-1990 . Breedon Books, Derby 1990, ISBN 0-907969-70-4 , pp. 278 ff .
14. ^ Out of the Alliance Cup . In: Grantham Journal , November 2, 1956, p. 11.  (paid link)
15. ^ Only two with full points . In: Star Green 'un , September 13, 1958, p. 4.  (link subject to charge)