Albert Whitehurst

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Albert Whitehurst
Full name	Albert John Whitehurst
Date of birth	22 June 1898(1898-06-22)
Place of birth	Fenton, Stoke-on-Trent, England
Date of death	1976
Playing position	Centre Forward
Senior clubs¹
Years	Club	App (Gls)*
1920–1923 1923–1928 1928–1929 1929–1931 1931–1933	New Haden Colliery Stoke Rochdale Liverpool Bradford City Tranmere Rovers Total	018 00(4) 169 (117) 008 00(2) 038 0(30) 080 0(29) 313 (182)
¹ Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. * Appearances (Goals)

Albert John Whitehurst (born June 22, 1898 in Fenton, Stoke-on-Trent, England; died 1976) was an English footballer who was a Centre Forward.

He played for five professional clubs during his career and was a prolific scorer, setting club records at two of his clubs, Rochdale for goals in a season and Bradford City for the number of goals in a game.

1 Playing career
2 Honours
3 References
4 External links

[edit] Playing career

Whitehurst started his career at amateur club New Haden Colliery, before moving to Stoke and Rochdale.

Whitehurst played five seasons for Rochdale scoring a total of 117 league goals, including 44 in 1926-27. The latter remains a club record.^[1]

He moved to Liverpool, where he played just eight times, before moving onto Bradford City. Despite starting in just 38 games, he scored 30 goals. He scored twice in both his first games, before scoring seven in his fourth game against Tranmere Rovers on March 6, 1929. He scored another two hat-tricks that season as City earned promotion from Division Three (North). His seven goals in one game is a Bradford City record.^[2]

He left the following season to join his final club Tranmere Rovers.