Alf Gregson
Personal information | |||
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Full name | Alfred Gregson[1] | ||
Date of birth | 2 March 1889 | ||
Place of birth | Bury, England | ||
Date of death | March 1968 (aged 78–79) | ||
Place of death | Heywood, England | ||
Playing position | Inside left | ||
Senior career* | |||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
Unitarians | |||
1911–1913 | Rochdale | ||
1913–1915 | Grimsby Town | 49 | (12) |
1915–1917 | → Brentford (guest) | 21 | (11) |
1919–1921 | Bury | 15 | (1) |
1921–1922 | Rossendale United | 6 | (0) |
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. |
Alfred "Alf" Gregson (2 March 1889 – March 1968) was an English professional football inside left who played in the Football League for Grimsby Town and Bury.[1][2]
Personal life
Gregson was married with a daughter born in 1915 and a son, who died in infancy in May 1917.[3] In 1914, he was working as a tinsmith.[3] In February 1915, six months since the breakout of the First World War, Gregson enlisted as a private with the 17th (Service) Battalion of the Duke of Cambridge's Own (Middlesex Regiment).[3] He was wounded near Bruay-la-Buissière in April 1916.[4]
Career statistics
Club | Season | League | FA Cup | Total | ||||
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Division | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | ||
Grimsby Town | 1914–15[5] | Second Division | 15 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 15 | 1 |
Career total | 15 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 15 | 1 |
References
- 1 2 Joyce, Michael (2012). Football League Players' Records 1888 to 1939. Nottingham: Tony Brown. p. 118. ISBN 1-905891-61-X.
- ↑ White, Eric, ed. (1989). 100 Years Of Brentford. Brentford FC. pp. 363–364. ISBN 0-9515262-0-0.
- 1 2 3 "Grimsby Town Football Club". Archived from the original on 15 March 2011. Retrieved 11 June 2017.
- ↑ Riddoch, Andrew; Kemp, David (2010). When the Whistle Blows: The Story of the Footballers' Battalion in the Great War. Sparkford, Yeovil, Somerset: Haynes Publishing. p. 96. ISBN 978-0-85733-077-2.
- ↑ "Grimsby Town Squad 1914/15". Football and the First World War. Retrieved 31 May 2017.
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