Albert Bloxham
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Albert Bloxham | ||
| Date of birth | 26 November 1905 | ||
| Place of birth | Solihull, England | ||
| Date of death | 29 August 1996 (aged 90) | ||
| Place of death | Crawley, England | ||
| Height | 5 ft 10 in (1.78 m) | ||
| Playing position | Outside right | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps† | (Gls)† |
| 1925–192x | Overton-on-Dee | ? | (?) |
| 192x–1926 | Oswestry Town | ? | (?) |
| 1926–1927 | Torquay United | ? | (?) |
| 1927–1928 | Birmingham | 3 | (1) |
| 1928 | Rhyl Athletic | ? | (?) |
| 1928 | Chesterfield | 7 | (1) |
| 1928–1929 | Raith Rovers | ? | (?) |
| 1929–1931 | Yeovil & Petters United | ? | (?) |
| 1931–1933 | Millwall | 70 | (11) |
| * Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. † Appearances (Goals). | |||
Albert Bloxham (26 November 1905 – 29 August 1996) was an English professional footballer who scored 13 goals in 80 appearances in the Football League playing for Birmingham, Chesterfield and Millwall.[1] He played as an outside right.
Bloxham was born in Solihull, then part of Warwickshire. He began his football career with Overton-on-Dee while working as an office clerk, then played for Oswestry Town and for Torquay United in the 1926–27 season[2] when they won the Southern League title.[3] Bloxham himself moved on to First Division club Birmingham in March 1927.[2] He made his Football League debut on 8 October 1927, deputising for Benny Bond in a home game against Sheffield Wednesday which Birmingham won 3–2. He scored in the next game, but Bond then returned to the starting eleven.[4]
Unable to gain a regular first-team place, he moved on to Rhyl Athletic, then back to the Football League for a few months with Chesterfield, and then to Scotland where he spent the 1928–29 season with Raith Rovers as they were relegated from the First Division of the Scottish Football League.[2][5] Bloxham then returned to England for two seasons with Yeovil & Petters United in the Southern and Western Leagues before joining Millwall of the Football League Second Division.[2][6] With Millwall he played regularly for two seasons, scoring 11 goals in 70 league matches, before retiring from the game in 1933.[2]
Bloxham died in Crawley, West Sussex, in 1996 at the age of 90.[7]
References
- ↑ Joyce, Michael (2004). Football League Players' Records 1888 to 1939. Nottingham: SoccerData (Tony Brown). p. 29. ISBN 978-1-899468-67-6.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 Matthews, Tony (1995). Birmingham City: A Complete Record. Derby: Breedon Books. p. 73. ISBN 978-1-85983-010-9.
- ↑ "Torquay United". Football Club History Database. Richard Rundle. Archived from the original on 19 April 2009. Retrieved 10 April 2009.
- ↑ Matthews, p. 170.
- ↑ Ross, James M. (3 January 2007). "Scotland – List of Divisional Movements". RSSSF. Archived from the original on 27 April 2009. Retrieved 10 April 2009.
- ↑ "Yeovil & Petters United". Football Club History Database. Richard Rundle. Retrieved 10 April 2009.
- ↑ Basson, Stuart. "Chesterfield FC: Football League players, 1921 to 2008" (XLS). Chesterfield F.C. Retrieved 9 April 2009.