Len Duns
| Len Duns | ||
| Personnel | ||
|---|---|---|
| Surname | Leonard Duns | |
| birthday | September 26, 1916 | |
| place of birth | Newcastle upon Tyne , England | |
| date of death | April 20, 1989 | |
| Place of death | Ponteland , England | |
| position | Right winger | |
| Juniors | ||
| Years | station | |
| Newcastle West End | ||
| Men's | ||
| Years | station | Games (goals) 1 |
| 1933-1952 | Sunderland AFC | 215 (45) |
| 1 Only league games are given. | ||
Leonard "Len" Duns (born September 26, 1916 in Newcastle upon Tyne , † April 20, 1989 in Ponteland ) was an English football player who was English champions and cup winners with the Sunderland AFC .
Career
Duns joined Sunderland AFC as an amateur from Newcastle in September 1933 and signed his first professional contract in October 1933. The right winger made his league debut on November 2, 1935, displacing Bert Davies in this position . Duns' first season as an active part of the team ended with the championship win 1935/36 , to which he made his contribution with five hits in 17 missions. In the following season, Duns, who benefited from the interaction with inside striker Raich Carter and outside runner Charlie Thomson , scored an exceptional 21 goals in 44 games for a winger, including five goals in the FA Cup after a 3-1 win over Preston North End won in front of over 93,000 spectators at London's Wembley Stadium . Duns had won the two most important English club competitions at the age of 20.
With the outbreak of the Second World War , his promising career was suddenly interrupted in September 1939. During the war he played for Sunderland and as a guest player at Aldershot , Brentford , Newcastle United , Notts County , Reading , West Bromwich Albion and Wrexham in 102 games (26 goals) in the regional Wartime Leagues before the resumption of he Football League 's Continued professional career at Sunderland in 1946. Until 1948 Duns belonged to the regular Sunderland squad, until the end of his career in 1952 missions were then increasingly rare.
successes
- English champion: 1935/36
- English cup winner: 1936/37
- Charity Shield : 1936
literature
- Garth Dykes & Doug Lamming: All the Lads - A Complete Who's Who of Sunderland AFC Polar Print Group Ltd, Leicester 2000, ISBN 1-899538-15-1 , p. 123 f .
- Jack Rollin: Soccer at War 1939-45 . Headline Book Publishing, London 2005, ISBN 0-7553-1431-X .
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| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Duns, Len |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Duns, Leonard (real name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | English soccer player |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 26, 1916 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Newcastle upon Tyne |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 20, 1989 |
| Place of death | Ponteland |