Len Dolding

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Len Dolding
Personnel
Surname Desmond Leonard Dolding
birthday December 13, 1922
place of birth Nundydroog ,  India
date of death November 23, 1954
Place of death Wembley ,  England
position Winger
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
Wealdstone FC
1943 (?) Queens Park Rangers (?)
1945-1948 Chelsea FC 26 (2)
1948-1951 Norwich City 12 (1)
1951-1953 Dover FC
1953-1954 Margate FC
1 Only league games are given.

Desmond Leonard "Len" Dolding (born December 13, 1922 in Nundydroog , India , † November 23, 1954 in Wembley ) was an English football and cricket player .

Career

Dolding was born in 1922 in Nundydroog, India , near Ooregaum by the Kolar Gold Fields , but returned to Great Britain at the age of seven. During World War II, Dolding served as a bombardier in the Royal Air Force . As an amateur Dolding came in July 1945 from FC Wealdstone for Chelsea and was on January 10, 1946 pro. In the 1945/46 season, the regular league game operations in England were not yet resumed, in the FA Cup 1945/46 Dolding was used. Dolding that as winger was called up, came from 1946 to 1948 in the Football League First Division to 26 inserts, with the obligations of Bobby Campbell , Johnny Paton and John McInnes was its potential for use but still low and he had increased the reserve team accrues.

In the summer of 1948 he moved to Norwich City in the Third Division South for a transfer fee of £ 2,000 . There he did not succeed in asserting himself against his rivals John Church , Les Eyre , Johnny Gavin and Noel Kinsey and only made twelve competitive games for the professional team in three years. In the reserve team, he played 100 games and scored 23 goals before he left. Dolding continued his career in non-league football from 1951 and stood out at Dover as a regular goalscorer in the Kent League . In 1953 he moved to Dover's league competitor FC Margate with whom he won the Kent League Cup in 1954 .

Dolding was also an excellent cricketer who was a member of the Middlesex County Cricket Club . In 1949 he was England's 12th man in a test match against New Zealand in Lord’s , and in 1953 he was sent to Leeds as a substitute for a test match against Australia.

In November 1954, Dolding was seriously injured in a car accident in London and died eleven days later in a hospital.

literature

  • Mike Davage: Glorious Canaries - Past and Present 1902-1994 . Norwich City FC Ltd, Norfolk 1994, ISBN 0-9523857-0-8 , pp. 114 .
  • Scott Cheshire: Chelsea FC Players Who's Who . Stoke-on-Trent 1987, ISBN 0-9512715-0-4 , pp. 69 .

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personal data
SURNAME Dolding, Len
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Dolding, Desmond Leonard (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION English soccer and cricket player
DATE OF BIRTH December 13, 1922
PLACE OF BIRTH Nundydroog , India
DATE OF DEATH November 23, 1954
Place of death Wembley