Wednesday 14 August 2013

Birmingham Evening Gazette - These Are Soccer Stars, New Series (3)

1946-47
These Are Soccer Stars, New Series
Birmingham Evening Gazette
58

The final two players have been discovered, which completes this checklist. Here's the final list:

1.  David Walsh (West Bromwich Albion)
2.  Jesse Pye (Wolverhampton Wanderers)
3.  Joe Mercer (Everton)
4.  Leon Leuty (Derby County)
5.  Ted Ditchburn (Tottenham Hotspur)
6.  George Eastham (Blackpool)
7.  Tommy Walker (Chelsea)
8.  Kevin O'Flanagan (Arsenal)
9.  Fred Ramscar (Wolverhampton Wanderers)
10.  Albert Stubbins (Newcastle United) 
11.  Gerald McAloon (Brentford)
12.  Leslie Compton (Arsenal)
13.  Jim Pemberton (West Bromwich Albion) 
14.  Bryn Jones (Arsenal)
15.  Arthur Turner (Colchester United)
16.  Frank Swift (Manchester City)
17.  R. Langton (Blackburn Rovers)
18.  Ray Devey (Birmingham City)
19.  Fred Betts (Coventry City)
20.  G. Wharton (Portsmouth)
21.  William Gorman (Brentford)
22.  Frank O'Donnell (Nottingham Forest)
23.  Neil Franklin (Stoke City)
24.  Wilf Mannion (Middlesbrough)
25.  George Marks (Blackburn Rovers)
26.  Albert Brown (Nottingham Forest)
27.  A.W. Fielding (Everton)
28.  Len Shackleton (Newcastle United)
29.  Fred Steele (Stoke City)
30.  Jack Sankey (Northampton)
31.  Herbert Barlow (Portsmouth)
32.  Jackie Robinson (Sheffield Wednesday)
33.  Jimmy McAlinden (Portsmouth)
34.  James Blair (Blackpool) 
35.  Frank Soo (Luton Town)
36.  Sep Smith (Leicester City)
37.  Jack Oakes (Charlton Athletic)
38.  Dai Jones (Leicester City)
39.  William Kidd (Chesterfield) 
40.  Stanley Matthews (Stoke City) 
41.  James Todd (Port Vale)
42.  George Mountford (Stoke City) 
43.  Thomas G. Jones (Everton)
44.  M. Fenton (Middlesbrough)
45.  George Antonio (Stoke City)
46.  William Shankley (Preston North End) 
47.  Douglas Duncan (Luton Town)
48.  George Drury (West Bromwich Albion)
49.  A.H. Gibbons (Bradford Park Avenue)
50.  George Hardwick (Middlesbrough)
51.  Tom Brolly (Millwall)
52.  Bert Sproston (Manchester City)
53.  Tom Finney (Preston North End)
54.  Ephraim Dodds (Everton)
55.  Sam Bartram (Charlton Athletic)
56.  Alex Herd (Manchester City)
57.  C. Bicknell (West Ham United)
58.  M. Dunkley (Manchester City)


2 comments:

  1. i would greatly appreciate getting a digital copy of Gerald McAloon's card
    he was my fathers brother, my uncle and i am trying to pull together some information on him for my children.

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  2. putting it on ebay very shortly

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