Roland Happs

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Roland Happs
Personnel
birthday 2nd August 1909
place of birth Birdwell ,  England
date of death 2004
position defense
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
Barnsley Association League
1927– Wombwell FC
0000-1932 Platts Common WMC
1932-1934 Barnsley FC 12 (0)
1934-1936 Mexborough Athletic
1936-1939 Denaby United
1 Only league games are given.

Roland Happs (born August 2, 1909 in Birdwell , † 2004 ) was an English football player .

Career

Happs moved in 1927 from the Barnsley Association League to FC Wombwell in the Midland League . After some convincing appearances in the reserve team of FC Barnsley in January 1932, he switched to the second division through the Hoyland- based Platts Common Working Men's Club . Although he had already made his competitive game debut in a 2-1 win against Preston North End in April 1932 and was praised by the press for having “made some effective liberation ” despite “a difficult ordeal” with Hales as an opponent, he came in the episode in competition with Cyril Dixon , Aneurin Richards and Bob Shotton only sporadically used in defense. In addition, Happs was handicapped by a broken leg in a reserve game in March 1933.

After a total of twelve competitive appearances in the first team in two and a half years, he moved back to the Midland League at Mexborough Athletic in 1934 . There he was team captain until March 1936, when he was sold to league rivals Denaby United for financial reasons . For the 1936/37 season he was the only Denaby player whose contract was extended and among the newcomers were goalkeeper Syd Tremain and outside runner Bill Parry, two former teammates from Mexborough. Happs was still part of Denaby's squad in August 1939, with the cessation of regular game operations after the outbreak of World War II, his footballing career ended.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Life data according to the English National Football Archive (ENFA) , accessed on February 23, 2019
  2. ^ Heanor Town's New Players. . In: Sheffield Daily Telegraph , July 20, 1927, p. 8.  (paid link)
  3. ^ Young Platts Common Back for Barnsley. . In: Sheffield Daily Telegraph , Jan. 21, 1932, p. 7.  (paid link)
  4. ↑ BARNSLEY. . In: Sheffield Daily Telegraph , April 11, 1932, p. 8.  (paid link)
  5. ↑ Grenville Firth, David Wood: The Who's Who of Barnsley FC . DB Publishing, Derby 2011, ISBN 978-1-85983-842-6 , pp. 244 f .
  6. ↑ BARNSLEY. . In: Star Green 'un , March 18, 1933, p. 1.  (link subject to charge)
  7. ↑ Happs At Mexborough . In: Sheffield Independent , August 17, 1934, p. 10.  (link with costs)
  8. ↑ A Merrier Mexborough. . In: Star Green 'un , March 7, 1936, p. 3.  (link subject to charge)
  9. ↑ DENABY SIGNINGS. . In: Leeds Mercury , May 7, 1936, p. 9.  (link subject to charge)
  10. ↑ DENABY UNITED . In: Sheffield Evening Telegraph , August 19, 1939, p. 13.  (paid link)
personal data
SURNAME Happs, Roland
BRIEF DESCRIPTION English soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH 2nd August 1909
PLACE OF BIRTH Birdwell
DATE OF DEATH 2004