Walter Pollard

Walter Pollard
Personnel
birthday	September 26, 1906
place of birth	Burnley ,  England
date of death	April 16, 1945
Place of death	Burnley ,  England
position	Half-striker
Men's
Years	station	Games (goals) 1
1924-1927	Burnley FC	20 (4)
1929-1933	West Ham United	37 (3)
1933-1934	FC Sochaux	? (0)
1934	Fulham FC	0 (0)
1934-1935	Southampton FC	23 (3)
	Brighton & Hove Albion	0 (0)
1 Only league games are given.

Walter Pollard (born September 26, 1906 in Burnley , † April 16, 1945 ibid) was an English football player.

Career

Pollard signed a professional contract with Burnley FC at the age of 17 in September 1924 , after he had previously been able to draw attention to himself in the Burnley Sunday School League . In 1929, the half-forward moved to West Ham United and came mainly in 1932/33, after relegation to the Football League Second Division , to regular appearances. This season he reached the semi-finals of the FA Cup with the club , in which they were defeated by Everton 1: 2.

In 1933 Pollard moved to the French Division 1 , where he joined FC Sochaux . After a year he returned to England because he could not cope with the "Gallic temperament" and probably also because in France's professional class from the 1934/35 season the maximum number of foreigners per team was reduced to three. After a season in the second division with Southampton FC , he let his career at Brighton & Hove Albion end. He found a job at the Ilford power station and coached the works team there. He died of a heart attack in 1945.

literature

• Tony Hogg: Who's Who of West Ham United . Profile Sports Media, London 2005, ISBN 1-903135-50-8 , pp. 166 f .
• Duncan Holley, Gary Chalk: The Alphabet of the Saints - A Complete Who's Who of Southampton Football Club . Polar Print Group Ltd, Leicester 1991, ISBN 0-9514862-3-3 , p. 273 .

Web links

• Detailed usage statistics for his time at West Ham United