Walter Allen (soccer player)

Walter Allen
Personnel
birthday	3rd quarter 1889
place of birth	Attercliffe ,  England
date of death	1948
position	defender
Men's
Years	station	Games (goals) 1
1906	FC Colne
1906-1907	Attercliffe Friends
1907-1909	Chesterfield Town	11 (1)
1909-1910	Doncaster Rovers
1910	Tibshelf Colliery
1910-1911	Croydon Common	2 (0)
1911-1912	East Vale
1912–?	South Normanton Colliery
1 Only league games are given.

Walter Allen (3rd quarter 1889 in Attercliffe , † 1948 ) was an English football player .

Career

Allen played for Attercliffe Friends , an amateur club from Sheffield , before approaching Chesterfield Town in April 1907 and in his debut game for the Midland League reserves , a 1-1 draw with Rotherham County , for his "brilliant performance “Was praised. “He kicked hard and was also conspicuous because of his excellent tackles.” Two weeks later in the last game of the season he was on the field for the reserve team and was again recognized for his “excellent performance in the right defensive position, which the good impressions that his first use emerged, extensively justified "praised.

For the 1907/08 season he was part of the club's professional squad and was mostly used in the reserve team. In the spring of 1908 he moved into the team after the club had slipped to the bottom of the table. In the following weeks he came to a series of eleven missions in the Football League Second Division and formed the defender pair with Dave Ewing . In his penultimate appearance, a 2-2 draw against Leicester Fosse , he scored a goal from the center circle with the help of the wind. At the end of the season Chesterfield was on the penultimate place in the table and had to stand for re-election to remain in the league. In the following season he continued to play regularly in the two defensive positions in the reserve team, in the first team he was no longer considered. At the end of the season, the club was again second to bottom and, unlike last year, did not receive enough votes for re-election and had to leave the Football League.

In the summer of 1909, Allen, like his teammate Albert Clarke , moved to the Doncaster Rovers , which also competed in the Midland League. The 1910/11 season he played for the club Croydon Common , which was in the Second Division of the Southern League , for which he played two games in the Southern League, six in the London League and 17 in the South Eastern League . With the return of Billy Balmer for the 1911/12 season, he no longer played a role in the planning of Croydon. He continued his football career in the Midlands at East Vale and South Normanton Collliery .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Life data according to the English National Football Archive (ENFA) , accessed on June 9, 2019
2. ↑ CHESTERFIELD TOWN. . In: Sheffield Evening Telegraph , May 3, 1907, p. 6.  (paid link)
3. ↑ Chesterfield Reserves Draw. . In: Derbyshire Courier , April 13, 1907, p. 3.  (paid link)
4. ^ Chesterfield Reserves Last Match. . In: Derbyshire Courier , April 27, 1907, p. 3.  (paid link)
5. ↑ cfchistory.com: Chesterfield Town FC, 1907-8 , accessed June 9, 2019 ( Microsoft Excel )
6. ^ The Fosse Match. . In: Derbyshire Courier , April 25, 1908, p. 3.  (paid link)
7. ↑ cfchistory.com: Chesterfield Town FC, 1908-9 , accessed June 9, 2019 ( Microsoft Excel )
8. ↑ Dave Twydell: Denied FC Yore Publications, Harefield 2001, ISBN 1-874427-98-4 , pp. 13 .
9. ↑ DONCASTER ROVERS AND THEIR PLAYERS. . In: Sheffield Independent , June 23, 1909, p. 8.  (paid link)
10. ↑ croydoncommon.com: ALLEN, Walter , accessed March 25, 2020