Geoffrey Bamforth

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Geoffrey Bamforth
Personnel
Surname Geoffrey Charles Bamforth
birthday October 21, 1896
place of birth Swindon ,  England
date of death February 28, 1985
Place of death Up Holland ,  England
position Outrunner , half forward
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
0000-1921 Saltley College
1921-1922 Wigan Borough 1 (0)
1 Only league games are given.

Geoffrey Charles Bamforth (born October 21, 1896 in Swindon , † February 28, 1985 in Up Holland ) was an English football player .

Career

The amateur footballer Bamforth was in the 1920/21 season team captain of the football team of Saltley College in Birmingham , where he was trained as a teacher. In August 1921 he joined Wigan Borough , which stood before their first season in the newly formed Football League Third Division North and had signed a dozen other amateur players in addition to Bamforth. In the press he was presented as a “right half- forward” from whom “a lot is expected”. For his only appearance in the Football League , he came a few weeks later in early September 1921 as a right wing runner , while he formed the runner row with Dick Carlisle and Owen Williams . The game was the first Football League home game in the club's history and ended in a 1: 4 defeat against Nelson FC . His second and last appearance for the first team from Wigan Borough Bamforth had in early January 1922 again as an outside runner when he was involved in a 1-0 loss in the Lancashire Senior Cup against Stockport County .

Bamforth played until the end of the season for Wigan Borough, the last time his name is found in May 1922 in the reserve team on the occasion of a game against the third team of Everton FC . His football career came to an early end due to injury, and he earned his living as a teacher in Up Holland .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Garth Dykes: Wigan Borough in the Football League: A Complete Record and Who's Who 1921-1931 . SoccerData, Nottingham 2011, ISBN 978-1-905891-53-5 , pp. 14th f .
  2. ↑ WIGAN'S BIG VENTURE. . In: Lancashire Evening Post , August 24, 1921, p. 5.  (paid link)
  3. ↑ FOOTBALL. . In: Nelson Leader , September 9, 1921, p. 4.  (paid link)
  4. ↑ bernardramsdale.com: The First Season , accessed August 16, 2020
  5. ↑ WIGAN SELECTIONS. . In: Liverpool Echo , May 5, 1922, p. 7.  (link with costs)
personal data
SURNAME Bamforth, Geoffrey
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bamforth, Geoffrey Charles (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION English soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH October 21, 1896
PLACE OF BIRTH Swindon
DATE OF DEATH February 28, 1985
Place of death Up Holland