Personal information | |||
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Full name | Albert Worthy [1] | ||
Date of birth | [1] | 1 November 1905||
Place of birth | Pilsley, England | ||
Date of death | 1 February 1978[1] | (aged 72)||
Place of death | Lower Pilsley, England | ||
Height | 5 ft 9+1⁄2 in (1.77 m) [2] | ||
Position(s) | Right back | ||
Senior career* | |||
Years | Team | Apps | ( Gls) |
Danesmoor | |||
1926–1927 | Chesterfield | 7 | (0) |
1927–1933 | Lincoln City | 198 | (5) |
1933–1934 | Southend United | 28 | (0) |
1934–1937 | Rochdale | 99 | (1) |
– | Gainsborough Trinity | ||
– | Shrewsbury Town | ||
Total | 332 | (6) | |
*Club domestic league appearances and goals |
Albert Worthy (1 November 1905 – 1 February 1978) was an English professional footballer who made 332 appearances in the Football League playing for Chesterfield, Lincoln City, Southend United and Rochdale. He played as a right back. [3]
Worthy was born in Pilsley, Derbyshire, [1] and played football for Danesmoor before joining Chesterfield. He played seven league games during the 1926–27 season before moving on to Third Division North rivals Lincoln City. [3] He scored his first Football League goal from a free kick in a 5–0 defeat of Barrow in October 1928. [4] He rarely missed a match in his first five seasons with the club, [1] at the end of which they won the Third Division North title and consequent promotion. [5] Worthy was not a regular first choice in the Second Division, [1] and left the club for Southend United of the Third Division South in the 1933 close season. After one season in which he played 30 games in all competitions, [6] he returned to the Northern Section for three years with Rochdale, after which he played non-league football for Gainsborough Trinity and Shrewsbury Town. [3]
Worthy died in Lower Pilsley, Derbyshire, in 1978 at the age of 72. [7]
Personal information | |||
---|---|---|---|
Full name | Albert Worthy [1] | ||
Date of birth | [1] | 1 November 1905||
Place of birth | Pilsley, England | ||
Date of death | 1 February 1978[1] | (aged 72)||
Place of death | Lower Pilsley, England | ||
Height | 5 ft 9+1⁄2 in (1.77 m) [2] | ||
Position(s) | Right back | ||
Senior career* | |||
Years | Team | Apps | ( Gls) |
Danesmoor | |||
1926–1927 | Chesterfield | 7 | (0) |
1927–1933 | Lincoln City | 198 | (5) |
1933–1934 | Southend United | 28 | (0) |
1934–1937 | Rochdale | 99 | (1) |
– | Gainsborough Trinity | ||
– | Shrewsbury Town | ||
Total | 332 | (6) | |
*Club domestic league appearances and goals |
Albert Worthy (1 November 1905 – 1 February 1978) was an English professional footballer who made 332 appearances in the Football League playing for Chesterfield, Lincoln City, Southend United and Rochdale. He played as a right back. [3]
Worthy was born in Pilsley, Derbyshire, [1] and played football for Danesmoor before joining Chesterfield. He played seven league games during the 1926–27 season before moving on to Third Division North rivals Lincoln City. [3] He scored his first Football League goal from a free kick in a 5–0 defeat of Barrow in October 1928. [4] He rarely missed a match in his first five seasons with the club, [1] at the end of which they won the Third Division North title and consequent promotion. [5] Worthy was not a regular first choice in the Second Division, [1] and left the club for Southend United of the Third Division South in the 1933 close season. After one season in which he played 30 games in all competitions, [6] he returned to the Northern Section for three years with Rochdale, after which he played non-league football for Gainsborough Trinity and Shrewsbury Town. [3]
Worthy died in Lower Pilsley, Derbyshire, in 1978 at the age of 72. [7]