Herbert Allen

Herbert Allen
Personnel
birthday	March 31, 1899
place of birth	Shifnal ,  England
date of death	1965
position	Half-forward (left)
Men's
Years	station	Games (goals) 1
	Wellington St George
1923-1926	Notts County	1 (0)
1926-1927	Stourbridge FC
1927-1928	Burton Town
1928-1929	Charlton Athletic	0 (0)
1929-1930	Wellington Town
1930-1931	Wellington St George
1931-1933	Oswestry Town
1933-1934	Darlaston
1934–	Wellington Town
1 Only league games are given.

Herbert Allen (born March 31, 1899 in Shifnal , † 1965 ) was an English football player .

Career

Allen played most of his career in non-league football , especially for a variety of clubs (Wellington St George, Stourbridge FC , Burton Town , Wellington Town , Oswestry Town ) in the Birmingham & District League . With Burton he won a championship medal there in 1928 and scored twice in the 3-1 final victory in the Staffordshire Qualifying Cup against the Stafford Rangers in September 1927 . Allen tried twice at clubs in the Football League . At Notts County in the First Division , which he joined in December 1923, he came during his two and a half year engagement only in January 1924 as a replacement for Harold Hill in a goalless draw with Preston North End to use as a left half-forward ; otherwise he was active for the reserve team in the Midland League . In the third division, Charlton Athletic , Allen, who was attested to have “good knowledge of the art of dribbling” and “a first-class sniper”, was completely without use in the first team in the 1928/29 season .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Life data according to the English National Football Archive (ENFA) , accessed on February 9, 2020
2. ^ ^{A b} Garth Dykes: Meadow Lane Men: The Complete Who's Who of Notts County 1888-2005 . Yore Publications, Harefield 2005, ISBN 978-0-9547830-6-8 , pp. 11 .
3. ↑ STAFFORDSHIRE QUALIFYING FOOTBALL CUP. Burton Town Defeat Stafford Rangers in Final . In: Staffordshire Advertiser , September 10, 1927, p. 4.  (link with costs)