Harry Troops

Harry Troops
Personal information
Full name Harold Troops[1]
Date of birth (1926-02-10)10 February 1926[1]
Place of birth Sheffield, England
Date of death 5 March 1963(1963-03-05) (aged 37)[1]
Place of death Sheffield, England
Playing position Outside forward / Full back
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
Hadfield Works
1948–1949 Barnsley 3 (1)
1949–1958 Lincoln City 295 (32)
1958–1960 Carlisle United 60 (1)
Total 358 (34)

* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only.

† Appearances (goals)

Harold "Harry" Troops (10 February 1926 – 5 March 1963) was an English professional footballer who scored 34 goals from 358 appearances in the Football League playing for Barnsley, Lincoln City and Carlisle United.[2]

Life and career

Troops was born in Sheffield, Yorkshire,[1] and began his football career with Barnsley. He played three games in the Second Division for Barnsley, scoring once, before joining Lincoln City in 1949.[1] He played at outside right for his first few seasons with Lincoln, and was ever-present in both 1950–51 and 1951–52, when he contributing to the club's Third Division North title.[1] The 1951–52 forward line – Troops, Johnny Garvie, Andy Graver, Ernie Whittle and Roy Finch – scored more goals than any other league club's forwards that season.[3] In the later part of his career he played at full back. He left the club in 1958, having scored 35 goals from 310 games in all senior competitions,[1] a total which at the time placed him sixth in Lincoln's all-time appearances list.[4] Troops finished his career with two seasons at Carlisle United, whom he joined for a £2,000 fee.[1]

After his retirement from football, Troops worked in a steelworks. He died in a road accident in Sheffield in 1963 at the age of 37.[1]

Honours

Lincoln City

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 "Harold Troops". The Lincoln City FC Archive. Lincoln City F.C. Retrieved 17 January 2013.
  2. "Harry Troops". UK A–Z Transfers. Neil Brown. Retrieved 17 January 2013.
  3. Humphreys, Joe (12 August 1952). "Beware of this attack!". The Daily Mirror. p. 11.
  4. "Most appearances in all competitions for LCFC". The Lincoln City FC Archive. Lincoln City F.C. Retrieved 17 January 2013. Note that the source includes appearances in wartime football.
This article is issued from Wikipedia - version of the Tuesday, July 07, 2015. The text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share Alike but additional terms may apply for the media files.