John Hellawell

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John Hellawell
Personnel
Surname John Rodney Hellawell
birthday December 20, 1943
place of birth Keighley ,  England
date of death February 14, 2019
Place of death Leeds ,  England
position Outrunner , storm
Juniors
Years station
St Bede's Grammar School
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
1961-1963 Salts
1963-1965 Bradford City 48 (13)
1965-1966 Rotherham United 6 0(2)
1966-1968 Darlington FC 8 0(1)
1968 Bradford Park Avenue 1 0(0)
1969–? Bromsgrove Rovers
1 Only league games are given.

John Rodney Hellawell (born December 20, 1943 in Keighley , † February 14, 2019 in Leeds ) was an English football player .

Career

Hellawell, whose brother Mike made it to England international, came in March 1963 from the Salts amateur club to Bradford City in the Football League Fourth Division . By the end of the season, he played three league appearances on the left runner position , when the club finished the season on the penultimate place in the table and had to stand for re-election to the league. Equipped with a professional contract during the summer break, he established himself under coach Bob Brocklebank in the 1963/64 season as a versatile player in the attack line, who was able to occupy both the outside and half-forward positions and scored seven goals in 25 missions. As fifth in the table, the club missed a promotion place by two points. In the following season he was still set in the storm row and was also used in the center forward position, but the club found itself again at the bottom of the table. In the second round match of the League Cup against Exeter City (final score 5: 3) he scored a hat trick as a center forward , and in the fourth round victory in the League Cup against second division club Charlton Athletic , he scored the goal to win 1-0. The team finally failed in the quarterfinals at the first division club Aston Villa , the game in late November 1964 was Hellawell's penultimate competitive game for Bradford City.

His performance also made higher-class clubs aware of Hellawell, in mid-January 1965 Danny Williams , coach of the second division Rotherham United , secured his services for a transfer fee of £ 7,000. Rotherham had recently sold his left attacking side to Hull City with Ken Hughton and Ian Butler . Hellawell came to a series of five missions between March and April, with a 3-0 home win over Leyton Orient he also scored one goal. In the following season 1965/66 he did not play a role under Williams' successor Jack Mansell at Rotherham, although he scored a goal in the 2-0 victory over Plymouth Argyle in his only competitive appearance after substitution , but Frank Casper got in the starting eleven , Bobby Williams and Keith Pring preferred on the left attacking side.

The season 1966/67 he spent at third division FC Darlington , Hellawell came in the course of the season but only eight league appearances (1 goal), the team rose at the end of the season as penultimate in the fourth division. Presumably he stayed another year at Darlington without appearing again for the first team. One of the few highlights of his time at Darlington were the two first round replays in the 1966/67 FA Cup against Stockport County , in which Hellawell was successful as a scorer. From October 1968 he appeared for two months as a test player with the covers of a part-time professional at the fourth division club Bradford Park Avenue . His only competitive appearance for the team was a 6-0 away defeat in the league game against AFC Rochdale .

Hellawell let his football career end in 1969 at the side of his brother Mike in non-league football in the West Midlands (Regional) League at the Bromsgrove Rovers . In December 1970, he scored seven goals in an 11-0 league win over Hinckley Athletic , including all five of his team's goals in the second half.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ John Hellawell in the barryhugmansfootballers.com database. Retrieved August 16, 2020.
  2. ↑ a b Terry Frost: Bradford City AFC Who's Who - Part 2: Football League Players 1946 to 1980 . SoccerData, Nottingham 2019, ISBN 978-1-911376-14-9 , pp. 80 .
  3. ↑ John Hellawell joins Rotherham . In: Birmingham Daily Post , January 16, 1965, p. 23.  (paid link)
  4. ^ Frank Tweddle: The Definitive Darlington FC SoccerData, Nottingham 2000, ISBN 978-1-899468-15-7 , pp. 63 .
  5. ↑ Terry Frost: Bradford Park Avenue Who's Who: The Football League Years 1908 to 1970 . SoccerData, Nottingham 2013, ISBN 978-1-905891-63-4 , pp. 96 .
  6. ^ Bromsgrove 11 Hinckley 0 . In: Coventry Evening Telegraph , December 21, 1970, p. 14.  (paid link)
personal data
SURNAME Hellawell, John
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hellawell, John Rodney (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION English soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH December 20, 1943
PLACE OF BIRTH Keighley
DATE OF DEATH February 14, 2019
Place of death Leeds