Harold Gough

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Harold Gough
Full name	Harold C. Gough
Date of birth	December 31, 1890
Place of birth	Chesterfield, England
Date of death	June 16, 1970 (aged 79)
Playing position	Goalkeeper
Senior clubs¹
Years	Club	App (Gls)*
?-? ?-1910 1910-? ?-1913 1913-1923 1923-? ?-1926 1926-1927 1927-1928 1928-1930	Spital Olympic Castleford Town Bradford Park Avenue Castleford Town Sheffield United Castleford Town Harrogate Town Oldham Athletic Bolton Wanderers Torquay United	003 (0) 242 (0) 004 (0) 004 (0) 056 (0)
National team
1921	England	1 (0)
¹ Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. * Appearances (Goals)

Harold C. Gough (December 31, 1890 - 16 June 1970) was an English professional footballer. He made one appearance in goal for the England national team.

1 Club Career
2 International Career
3 Honours
4 External links

[edit] Club Career

Harold Gough was born in Chesterfield and played for non-league sides Spital Olympic and Castleford Town before joining Bradford Park Avenue in 1910. He played 3 games for Bradford before returning to Castleford Town.

In 1913 he moved to Sheffield United where over the next 10 years he would make 242 league appearances and win an FA Cup winners' medal in 1915. A decision to become a publican in Castleford broke the conditions of his contract and he left Bramall Lane at the end of the 12923-24 season. His final game for United was a 2-0 County Cup Final victory over the Wednesday.

Returning to play for Castleford Town Gough subsequently moved to Harrogate from where he joined Oldham Athletic in 1926. He played four times for Oldham, moving to Bolton Wanderers in 1927, playing four league games before joining Torquay United in the summer of 1928. He immediately dislodged Archie Bayes as Torquay's first choice goalkeeper, missing just 3 games in his first season. He played 17 times the following season, losing his place to Bayes, and retired at the end of the season.