Jim Alderton

Jim Alderton
Personnel
Surname	James Harris Alderton
birthday	December 6, 1924
place of birth	Wingate ,  England
date of death	June 1998
Place of death	Kidderminster ,  England
position	Outrunner
Men's
Years	station	Games (goals) 1
1940-1947	Wolverhampton Wanderers	11 (0)
1947-1952	Coventry City	62 (0)
	Darlaston FC
1 Only league games are given.

James Harris "Jim" Alderton (born December 6, 1924 in Wingate , † June 1998 in Kidderminster ) was an English football player .

Career

Alderton first played in May 1940 in the regional Wartime Leagues for the first team of Wolverhampton Wanderers , previously he had come to the reserve team for use. He played a total of 112 games in the war-related replacement competitions for the Wolves from 1940 to 1946 , and during the war he also appeared as a guest player at Chester (1941/42, 1 deployment) and Notts County (1943/44, 1 deployment). For his first appearances in a regular competition Alderton came in the FA Cup 1945/46 , when he was used in the four games against Lovells Athletic and Charlton Athletic . When the league game operations resumed for the 1946/47 season , the outside runners positions were occupied by Tom Galley and Billy Wright , Alderton played only eleven games for the Wanderers in the First Division during the season .

In October 1947 he joined the second division club Coventry City for "a small fee" . There he rarely got beyond the role of the supplementary player in five seasons, missions were mostly made when the regular players Jack Snape , Harry Barratt or Noel Simpson were absent. In addition, his own injury problems limited his playing times, in the 1951/52 season , when Coventry was relegated penultimate in the table, he only made four season appearances and left the club at the end of the season. Later he was still active in non-league football for Darlaston FC .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Profile on barryhugmansfootballers.com , accessed June 25, 2020
2. ↑ See seasonal overviews in Jack Rollin: Soccer at War 1939–45 . Headline Book Publishing, London 2005, ISBN 0-7553-1431-X .
3. ↑ Tony Matthews: The Wolves Who's Who . Britespot Publishing, Cradley Heath 2001, ISBN 978-1-904103-01-1 , pp. 5 .
4. ^ Martin O'Connor, Paul O'Connor: Coventry City Footballers, 1908-93: The Complete Who's Who . Yore Publications, Harefield 1993, ISBN 978-1-874427-45-2 , pp. 45 .