Charlie Craven

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Charlie Craven

Full name	Charles Craven
Date of birth	December 2, 1909
Place of birth	Boston, England
Date of death	March 30, 1972 (aged 62)
Place of death	Solihull, England
Playing position	Inside left
Youth clubs
	Boston Trinity Boston Town
Senior clubs¹
Years	Club	App (Gls)*
1930-1938 1938 1938-1939 1939–1951 1951–19??	Grimsby Town Manchester United Birmingham Tamworth Sutton Town	256 (95) 011 (2) 017 (2) 00? (?) 00? (?)
¹ Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. * Appearances (Goals)

Charlie Craven (December 2, 1909 – March 30, 1972) was an English professional footballer who played as an inside left.

Born in Boston, Lincolnshire, Craven started his football career with local teams before joining Grimsby Town, with whom he won the Second Division in 1934. He went on to score 99 goals in 283 appearances in the top two divisions of the Football League for Grimsby, Manchester United, who paid £6,000 for his services in June 1938, and Birmingham, whom he joined only six months later. He was named as reserve for England for the match against Holland in 1935. He moved into non-League football with Tamworth shortly before the Second World War started, guested for Coventry City and Birmingham during the war, and left Tamworth for Sutton Town in 1951. He died in Solihull, Warwickshire at the age of 62.

[edit] Honours

Matthews, Tony (1995). Birmingham City: A Complete Record. Derby: Breedon Books, pp. 80, 181. ISBN 978-1-85983-010-9.
Player Statistics. Red11.org. Retrieved on 2007-12-08.
United All-Time Transfer List. Red11.org. Retrieved on 2007-12-08.