John Ackroyd

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John Ackroyd
Personnel
birthday 1868
place of birth Radford or Heanor ,  England
date of death November 11, 1927
Place of death Heanor ,  England
position Storm
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
1887-1888 Notts County
1888-1890 Notts Olympic
1890-1891 Heanor Town
1891-1894 Grimsby Town 58 (30)
1894-1895 Rotherham Town 16 0(3)
1895– Heanor Town
1 Only league games are given.

John Ackroyd (* 1868 in Radford , Nottingham or Heanor , † November 11, 1927 in Heanor) was an English football player .

Career

Ackroyd formed in late December 1887 for the first time with Harry Daft the left attacking side of Notts County and met in the 4-0 win against the Walsall Swifts once. In the following weeks Ackroyd played three more games, the last time on January 21, 1888 in an 8-0 defeat by the Notts Rangers . While Notts County participated in the newly created Football League from the fall of 1888 , Ackroyd now played for local rivals Notts Olympic . In February 1890, the Athletic News reported on the occasion of a 4-4 draw with Heanor Town that Notts Olympic has picked up speed since Ackroyd, among other things, because he was a pedestrian . He was one of the favorites in a competition in February 1890 on Castle Ground in Nottingham .

In the following months he joined Heanor Town, with Olympic subsequently unsuccessfully applied to the Football Association to be allowed to use Ackroyd on a temporary basis. In October 1890, a correspondent on Ackroyd noted that "with his long legs he was able to walk past [his opponent] as if he were wearing seven-mile boots ." For the 1891/92 season, Ackroyd joined the Grimsby Town club playing in the Football Alliance , where he replaced the Scottish international David Black, who had switched to Middlesbrough FC . In his first season, Ackroyd was by far the club's top scorer with 13 goals in 20 league appearances, and in the second qualifying round of the FA Cup against Boston Town with a 10-0 win (one hit by Ackroyd), a club record that is still valid today.

In the following season, the majority of the Football Alliance teams formed the newly created Second Division of the Football League and Ackroyd contributed to the club's first ever game in the new league against Lincoln City with a goal to the 5-2 success. In the course of the season he moved from the position of the left half striker on Right Wing , with twelve league goals, including the first Strafstoßtor Grimsby in the Football League (at a 1: 3 defeat to Walsall Town Swifts ), he once again top scorer was his team, as the Season ended in a respectable fourth place.

In September 1893, Ackroyd was awarded a charity match in which Grimsby Town faced a Nottinghamshire selection that included William Brown (Nottingham Forest) - Thompson (Mansfield Town), Tom McLean (Notts County) - Charlie Bramley (Notts), his longtime friend Bob Jardine (Heanor Town), Alf Shelton (Notts) - JH Mann (Notts), Taylor (most recently Bulwell), Horace Pike (Forest), George Geary (Forest), Harry Daft (Notts) played. The game in front of "only 600 or 700 spectators" was played with 35 minutes long halves and ended with a 5: 1 (two goals from Ackroyd) for Grimsby. After he was used less often in the 1893/94 season and his goal rate had decreased, he joined the league rivals Rotherham Town for the 1894/95 season . His debut there was delayed by a few weeks because he was banned in May 1894 by an emergency committee of the Football Association for unspecified misconduct until September 14. In his first two missions he scored one goal each, but only got one goal in the following 15 competitive appearances; and after losing his place in the team in November, he was also used as a middle runner until the end of the season . In addition, he had to answer to the court in February 1895 because he was caught by the police in a courtyard shortly before midnight fighting with his brother-in-law. The two defendants said to the laughter of the audience in the courtroom that they had argued over which were the two best teams in Rotherham . Both were sentenced to £ 5 suspended and court costs.

In the summer of 1895 Ackroyd returned to Heanor Town in the Midland League , which strengthened in addition to Ackroyd with Brookes (Derby County), Thomas Jeacock (Nottingham Forest) and Andrew Whitelaw (Leicester Fosse) with a few other Football League players. With Heanor he reached the first main round of the FA Cup again in 1897, in which they were eliminated in the replay against Southampton St Mary’s . Ackroyd was still active in football for at least 1901 for Heanor Town and appeared until the First World War for the Heanor Town Cricket Club, of which he was later president and treasurer.

Ackroyd earned his living after his footballing career in the textile industry ( lace worker ) in Heanor, was secretary of the Lace Traders' Union and first president of the Heanor Labor Union . His son Archie Ackroyd (1897-1968) was active as a cricketer for the Derbyshire CCC . Ackroyd died at the age of 59 in November 1927 after a long illness, leaving behind three sons and a daughter.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b c Rob Briggs & Dave Wherry: Mariner Men: Grimsby Town Who's Who 1892–2007 . Yore Publications, Harefield 2011, ISBN 978-0-9552949-8-3 , pp. 4 .
  2. ↑ THIS DAY'S FOOTBALL. NOTTS. v. WALSALL SWIFTS. . In: Nottingham Evening Post , December 31, 1887, p. 3.  (paid link)
  3. ↑ cf. Tony Brown: The Official History, Notts County, 1862-1995 . Yore Publications, Harefield 1996, ISBN 978-1-874427-61-2 , pp. 117 .
  4. ↑ NOTTS OLYMPIC v. GRANTHAM TOWN. . In: Nottingham Evening Post , September 22, 1888, p. 3.  (paid link)
  5. ↑ OTHER FOOTBALL. . In: Athletic News , February 3, 1890, p. 6.  (link subject to charge)
  6. ↑ PEDESTRIANISM. . In: Nottingham Evening Post , February 4, 1890, p. 3.  (paid link)
  7. ↑ SPORTS AND PASTIMES. . In: Nottingham Evening Post , September 6, 1890, p. 4.  (paid link)
  8. ↑ SPORTS AND PASTIMES. . In: Grantham Journal , October 4, 1890, p. 7.  (paid link)
  9. ↑ Dave Wherry: The Grimsby Town Story: 1878-2008 . Yore Publications, Harefield 2008, ISBN 978-0-9557889-3-2 , pp. 10 .
  10. ↑ cf. Dave Wherry: The Grimsby Town Story: 1878-2008 . Yore Publications, Harefield 2008, ISBN 978-0-9557889-3-2 , pp. 164 .
  11. ↑ BOSTON TOWN V GRIMSBY TOWN. ENGLISH CUP TIE. . In: Boston Guardian , October 31, 1891, p. 6.  (paid link)
  12. ↑ NOTES ON SPORTS. . In: Nottingham Journal , September 16, 1893, p. 6.  (paid link)
  13. ↑ GRIMSBY TOWN v. NOTTINGHAMSHIRE. . In: Stamford Mercury , September 29, 1893, p. 5.  (link subject to charge)
  14. ↑ CORRESPONDENCE. . In: Manchester Evening News , May 30, 1894, p. 2.  (paid link)
  15. ↑ FOOTBALLERS SUMMONED. . In: South Wales Daily News , February 9, 1895, p. 3.  (paid link)
  16. ↑ HEANOR TOWN FOOTBALL CLUB. FIRST OPENING TEST MATCH. . In: Nottingham Journal , August 30, 1895, p. 8.  (paid link)
  17. ↑ NOTTS. AND DISTRICT LEAGUE. . In: Nottingham Journal , April 27, 1901, p. 7.  (paid link)
  18. ↑ HEANOR TOWN CRICKET CLUB. . In: Ripley and Heanor News and Ilkeston Division Free Press , November 12, 1915, p. 4.  (paid link)
  19. ↑ a b c HEANOR SPORTSMAN'S DEATH. MR. JOHN ACKROYD. . In: Ripley and Heanor News and Ilkeston Division Free Press , November 18, 1927, p. 3.  (paid link)
  20. ^ Death of Former Rotherham Player. . In: Sheffield Daily Telegraph , November 15, 1927, p. 10.  (paid link)
personal data
SURNAME Ackroyd, John
BRIEF DESCRIPTION English soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH 1868
PLACE OF BIRTH Radford , Nottingham or Heanor
DATE OF DEATH November 11, 1927
Place of death Heanor