George Ayres (soccer player)

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George Ayres
Personnel
Surname George Alexander Ayres
birthday September 5, 1901
place of birth Islington ,  England
date of death 17th January 1983
Place of death Seaford ,  England
position Runner, striker
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
RAF Cranwell
1922-1924 Charlton Athletic 33 0(5)
1924-1926 The Wednesday 27 (11)
1926-1928 Blackpool FC 39 0(4)
1 Only league games are given.

George Alexander Ayres (born September 5, 1901 in Islington , † January 17, 1983 in Seaford ) was an English football player . The versatile player played a total of 99 games (20 goals) in the lower division of the Football League in the 1920s for Charlton Athletic , The Wednesday and Blackpool FC .

Career

Ayres served on the RAF Cranwell military base and played as a center forward for the local army team when he made his debut in the Third Division South for Charlton Athletic as an amateur in December 1922 ; by the end of the 1922/23 season were seven missions in the center forward position and one goal (in the 3-1 home win against Swindon Town ) to book. After his retirement, he became a professional at Charlton in February 1924, and from the end of November 1923 he was regularly used, but mostly in the position of left or right half-forward.

In May 1924, Ayres was signed by Sheffielder's second division The Wednesday and the club successfully telegraphed the Football League for permission to play the last game of the 1923/24 season , in which he stood in for Jimmy Trotter and made it 2-0 with a left-footed shot -The final score against Manchester United met. In the second division season 1924/25 Ayres came mostly as a left half-forward to a total of 20 league appearances, the personal highlight of the season was his hat trick on September 20 in a 3-0 home win against Stockport County . As Matt Barrass , Harold Hill , Billy Marsden , Charlie Petrie , Billy Powell , Sam Taylor and Alex Weaver were allowed to try a large number of other players on the left half- forward position , he also played several times in the reserve team, for which he scored ten times. At the beginning of the following season , Ayres was part of the regular lineup again and scored four times in the first three games of the season. After a 1: 4 defeat on the fifth match day against Derby County Hill took his place again in the team and Ayres had to play in the reserve, with which he won the championship in the Central League and again scored ten goals.

While Wednesday rose as the second division champion in the first division at the end of the season , Ayres was put on the transfer list and moved to the second division FC Blackpool in May 1926 . At Blackpool he was initially withdrawn from the half- forward to the position of the outside runner during the 1926/27 season and finally called up as a center runner from February 1927 . The press attributed Ayres to Blackpool with “good ball control” and “robust tackling behavior”, in February 1927 he was awarded “great progress as a middle runner” and after a long break he was praised in January 1928 as “extremely versatile”. In September 1927 Ayres had to be operated on for an injury sustained in a game against Oldham Athletic . His retirement at the end of the 1927/28 season is also said to have had injury-related reasons.

Ayres also stood out as a cricketer and was part of the Surrey County Cricket Club at times , but did not play a first-class match . He made several appearances for the cricket teams of Horncastle and Woodhall Spa, as he spent his summer vacations in nearby Thimbleby , his wife's hometown. After his football career, he became a football and cricket coach at the Stamford School in 1929 and also worked as a coach at the Surrey County Cricket Club.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f Jason Dickinson, John Brodie: The Wednesday Boys: A Definitive Who's Who of Sheffield Wednesday Football Club 1880–2005 . Pickard Communication, Sheffield 2005, ISBN 978-0-9547264-9-2 , pp. 9 .
  2. ^ Colin Cameron: The Valiant 500 . Colin Cameron, Sidcup 1991, ISBN 978-0-9517729-0-4 , pp. 11 .
  3. ↑ cf. Colin Cameron: Home & Away with Charlton Athletic 1920-2004 . Colin Cameron, Sidcup 2003, ISBN 978-0-9518125-2-5 , pp. 17th ff .
  4. ^ A b Young Inside-Forward for Wednesday. AYRES, OF CHARLTON. . In: Sheffield Daily Telegraph , May 3, 1924, p. 8.  (paid link)
  5. ↑ THE WEDNESDAY REVENGE. . In: Yorkshire Post and Leeds Intelligencer , May 5, 1924, p. 13.  (paid link)
  6. ↑ cf. John Brodie & Jason Dickinson: Sheffield Wednesday - The Complete Record . DB Publishing, Derby 2011, ISBN 978-1-85983-973-7 , pp. 364 f .
  7. ↑ WEDNESDAY TRANSFER LIST. . In: Sheffield Daily Telegraph , May 4, 1926, p. 10.  (paid link)
  8. ^ Ayres Leaves Wednesday for Blackpool. . In: Sheffield Daily Telegraph , May 18, 1926, p. 7.  (paid link)
  9. ↑ cf. Roy Calley: Blackpool - The Complete Record . DB Publishing, Derby 2011, ISBN 978-1-85983-976-8 , pp. 316 f .
  10. ↑ AYRES AS A HALF-BACK. . In: Star Green 'un , January 8, 1927, p. 2.  (link subject to charge)
  11. ↑ PROMOTION POINTS. Wellock hero. . In: Derby Daily Telegraph , February 26, 1927, p. 4.  (paid link)
  12. ↑ Ayres on the Flank. . In: Derby Daily Telegraph , January 14, 1928, p. 4.  (paid link)
  13. ↑ a b c HORNCASTLE FOOTBALL NOTES. . In: Skegness Standard , September 21, 1927, p. 2.  (link subject to charge)
  14. ↑ CLUB MATCHES. HORNCASTLE v. WOODHALL SPA. . In: Lincolnshire Standard and Boston Guardian , May 26, 1928, p. 6.  (paid link)
  15. ↑ FOOTBALLER'S FORCING INNINGS. . In: Star Green 'un , June 2, 1928, p. 2.  (link subject to charge)
personal data
SURNAME Ayres, George
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Ayres, George Alexander (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION English soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH September 5, 1901
PLACE OF BIRTH Islington
DATE OF DEATH 17th January 1983
Place of death Seaford (East Sussex)