Alf Walker

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Alf Walker
Walker in a Port Vale team photo.
Personal information
Full name Alfred Samuel Walker[1]
Date of birth (1884-08-26)26 August 1884
Place of birth Upper Holloway, England[2]
Date of death 14 September 1961(1961-09-14) (aged 77)[1]
Place of death Newcastle-under-Lyme, England[1]
Position(s) Outside left
Youth career
Wolverton
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1906–1907 Northampton Town
1907–1909 Leyton
1909–1910 Brentford 14 (3)
1910–1911 Wolverhampton Wanderers 32 (2)
1911–1914 Port Vale 71 (7)
Dunfermline Athletic
Total 103+ (9+)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Alfred Samuel Walker (26 August 1884 – 14 September 1961) was an English footballer who played in the Football League for Wolverhampton Wanderers.

Career[edit]

Walker played for Wolverton, Northampton Town and Brentford,[2] before joining Wolverhampton Wanderers for a £150 fee in April 1910.[3] He scored twice 35 games for the club,[4] as they posted eighth and ninth places finishes in the Football League Second Division in 1909–10 and 1910–11. He joined non-League Port Vale in 1911, and enjoyed regular football in Burslem, helping the club to lift the Birmingham Senior Cup in 1913.[1] However, he lost his place in October 1913 and after colliding with low railings at The Old Recreation Ground on 26 January 1914 was out of action for some time.[1] He was released at the end of the season and moved on to Scottish side Dunfermline Athletic.[1]

Later life[edit]

By 1949, Walker was working as the managing director of Sanitary Supply Co Ltd in Burslem.[5]

Career statistics[edit]

Source:[6]

Club Season Division League FA Cup Total
Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals
Brentford 1909–10 Southern League First Division 14 3 0 0 14 3
Wolverhampton Wanderers 1909–10 Second Division 1 0 0 0 1 0
1910–11 Second Division 31 2 3 0 34 2
Total 32 2 3 0 35 2
Port Vale 1911–12 Central League 23 1 0 0 0 0
1912–13 Central League 33 6 4 1 37 7
1913–14 Central League 15 0 1 0 16 0
Total 71 7 5 1 76 8

Honours[edit]

Port Vale

References[edit]

  1. ^ a b c d e f Kent, Jeff (1996). Port Vale Personalities. Witan Books. p. 299. ISBN 0-9529152-0-0.
  2. ^ a b Joyce, Michael (2012). Football League Players' Records 1888 to 1939. Nottingham: Tony Brown. p. 297. ISBN 978-1905891610.
  3. ^ White, Eric, ed. (1989). 100 Years Of Brentford. Brentford FC. p. 95. ISBN 0951526200.
  4. ^ "Wolverhampton Wanderers Players a-Z". Scribd.com. Retrieved 15 January 2009.
  5. ^ "A Port Vale programme from 1949". onevalefan.co.uk. 23 October 2013. Retrieved 4 June 2020.
  6. ^ Alf Walker at the English National Football Archive (subscription required)
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