William Booth (soccer player)

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William Booth
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Personnel
birthday September 30, 1880
place of birth HandforthEngland
date of death 1951
position Winger (left)
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
Edge Lane
1900-1901 Newton Heath 2 (0)
1 Only league games are given.

William Booth (born September 30, 1880 in Handforth , † 1951 ) was an English football player .

Career

Booth came in late December 1900 to two missions for Newton Heath in the Football League Second Division . As a left winger , a position previously mostly John Grundy held, he made his debut on December 26 ( Boxing Day ) with a 4: 0 win against FC Blackpool and worked three days later even with a 3: 0 win over Glossop with . Despite the two successes played on New Year's Day against Middlesbrough FC James Fisher , who kept his place in the team until the end of the season. Nothing is known about Booth's whereabouts.

literature

  • Michael Joyce: Football League Players' Records 1888 to 1939 . 2nd revised edition. Soccerdata, Nottingham 2004, ISBN 1-899468-67-6 , pp. 30 .
  • Garth Dykes: The United Alphabet - A Complete Who's Who of Manchester United FC ACL & Polar Publishing Ltd., Leicester 1994, ISBN 0-9514862-6-8 , pp. 43 .

Individual evidence

  1. Life data according to the English National Football Archive (ENFA) , accessed on August 2, 2020