Robert Allen (soccer player, 1916)

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Robert Allen
Personnel
Surname Robert Howard Allen Allen
birthday December 5, 1916
place of birth Shepton Mallet ,  England
date of death February 16, 2001
Place of death Shepton Mallet ,  England
position defender
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
Aero engines
1945-1946 Notts County 1 (0)
1946-1947 Bristol City 1 (0)
Bridgwater Town
1 Only league games are given.

Robert Howard Allen Allen (born December 5, 1916 in Shepton Mallet , † February 16, 2001 ibid) was an English football player .

Career

Allen came in early 1945, during the Second World War to Notts County , and came in the season 1944/45 to six in the transitional season 1945/46 to 15 appearances in the regional competitions of the Wartime League , mostly he made here with Aubrey Southwell the Defender couple. With the resumption of regular play for the 1946/47 season , George Robinson was preferred to the left defender position. Allen's only competitive game was dated September 21, 1946, when he was used in a 2-2 draw against Watford FC because Robinson was unavailable due to professional obligations.

In November 1946 he left Notts County and moved to Bristol City within the Third Division South . There, too, he did not get beyond the role as a supplementary player, only one appearance each in the FA Cup (9: 3 against FC Hayes ) and in the league (1: 1 against Brighton & Hove Albion ) until his departure at the end of the season Beech. His football career was continued in non-league football at Bridgwater Town .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Robert Allen in the database of barryhugmansfootballers.com (English). Retrieved August 16, 2020.
  2. ^ A b Garth Dykes: Meadow Lane Men: The Complete Who's Who of Notts County 1888-2005 . Yore Publications, Harefield 2005, ISBN 978-0-9547830-6-8 , pp. 11 .
  3. ↑ Jack Rollin: Soccer at War 1939-45 . Headline Book Publishing, London 2005, ISBN 0-7553-1431-X , pp. 385 f .
  4. ^ Tony Brown: The Official History, Notts County, 1862-1995 . Yore Publications, Harefield 1996, ISBN 978-1-874427-61-2 .
  5. ↑ neilbrown.newcastlefans.com: Bob Allen , accessed October 3, 2016
personal data
SURNAME Allen, Robert
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Allen, Robert Howard Allen (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION English soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH December 5, 1916
PLACE OF BIRTH Shepton Mallet
DATE OF DEATH February 16, 2001
Place of death Shepton Mallet