Joe Allen (soccer player, 1909)

Joe Allen
Personnel
Surname	Joseph Allen
birthday	December 30, 1909
place of birth	Bilsthorpe ,  England
date of death	November 29, 1978
Place of death	Rainworth ,  England
position	Winger (left, right)
Men's
Years	station	Games (goals) 1
	Bilsthorpe Colliery
1928-1930	Mansfield Town	8 (0)
	Bilsthorpe Colliery
1932-1933	Tottenham Hotspur	1 (1)
	→  Northfleet United  (loan)
1933-1935	Queens Park Rangers	51 (6)
1935	Mansfield Town	8 (5)
	RC Roubaix
	FC Nancy
1 Only league games are given.

Joseph "Joe" Allen (born December 30, 1909 in Bilsthorpe , † November 29, 1978 in Rainworth ) was an English football player .

Career

Allen joined Mansfield Town in the Midland League as an amateur from Bilsthorpe Colliery in 1928 and turned pro in 1929. After another stay with Bilsthorpe Colliery, for which he was active as a cricketer during the summer break , he came to Tottenham Hotspur in August 1932 . This awarded the striker first in the Kent League to the training club Northfleet United , to his only competitive game for the Spurs he came in April 1933 when he represented Willie Hall on the left half-forward position. In the Second Division game against Bradford City he scored Tottenham's goal in a 1-1 draw. By Mick O'Brien Allen was still in April 1933 at the Queens Park Rangers brought, for which he regularly for two seasons came on, scoring six goals in 51 league games.

For the 1935/36 season Allen returned to Mansfield Town, which was now in the Third Division North . Allen, who in the press as "refined plans Schmieder who knows how to care for the center forward the opponent [to be] pulls" has been described, the first eight disputed season games for the club, scoring the 4: 2 victory against FC Darlington one Hat trick. Already at the end of November 1935 Allen moved to the second French division for RC Roubaix for a transfer fee and rose to Division 1 with the club at the end of the season . In December 1935 it was reported that he was nominated for a selection of the northern French second division clubs against such a first division selection and contributed with one hit to a 5-1 victory.

In October 1936 he tried to join Yeovil & Petters in the Southern League , but the change failed because of an unspecified ban by the French association , which the Football Association obeyed. The last stop in regular game operations is the French second division FC Nancy . During the Second World War , Allen worked in the mining industry and played sporadically for Mansfield Town in the regional replacement competitions of the Wartime League . In total, he came to 14 goalless missions, in the post-war period he no longer appeared.

Individual evidence

1. ^ ^{A b} Jack Retter: Who's Who the Stags, 1902-95: From Wesleyans to Mansfield Town . Yore Publications, Harefield 1995, ISBN 978-1-874427-31-5 , pp. 18 .
2. ↑ ^{a b} John Marks: Heroes in Hoops - QPR Who's Who 1899 ~ 2003 . Yore Publications, Harefield 2003, ISBN 1-874427-84-4 , pp. 11 .
3. ↑ Bob Goodwin: The Spurs Alphabet - A Complete Who's Who of Tottenham Hotspur FC ACL & Polar Publishing Ltd., Leicester 1992, ISBN 0-9514862-8-4 , p. 12 .
4. ↑ HAPPY PROSPECTS FOR MANSFIELD . In: Nottingham Evening Post , August 22, 1935, p. 11.  (paid link)
5. ↑ MANSFIELD TOWN TRANSFER ALLEN . In: Nottingham Evening Post , November 29, 1935, p. 16.  (paid link)
6. ↑ FORMER MANSFIELD TOWN PLAYER . In: Nottingham Evening Post , December 12, 1935, p. 7.  (paid link)
7. ↑ NEW SOUTHERN LEAGUE PLAYERs . In: Gloucestershire Echo , October 22, 1936, p. 8.  (paid link)
8. ↑ BAN ON PLAYER . In: Dundee Courier , October 24, 1936, p. 9.  (link subject to charge)
9. ↑ Jack Rollin: Soccer at War 1939-45 . Headline Book Publishing, London 2005, ISBN 0-7553-1431-X , pp. 366 f .