Personal information | |||
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Full name | Robert Sharpe [1] | ||
Date of birth | [1] | 20 December 1925||
Place of birth | Kirkcaldy, Scotland | ||
Date of death | 21 February 2014[2] | (aged 88)||
Position(s) | Right back | ||
Senior career* | |||
Years | Team | Apps | ( Gls) |
– | Dunfermline Athletic | 0 | (0) |
1947–194? | Thornton Hibs | ||
194?–1951 | Rosyth Recreation | ||
1951–1952 | Raith Rovers | 1 | (0) |
1952–1953 | Darlington | 14 | (0) |
– | Blackhall Colliery Welfare | ||
*Club domestic league appearances and goals |
Robert Sharpe (20 December 1925 – 21 February 2014) was a Scottish footballer who played as a right back in the Scottish League for Raith Rovers and in the English Football League for Darlington. [1] [3]
Sharpe was born in Kirkcaldy. [1] He played for Dunfermline Athletic in the 1945–46 wartime league [4] before being reinstated as a junior with Thornton Hibs in 1947. [5] By 1949 he was at Rosyth Recreation, [6] helping the club to the top of the Fife Junior League. [7] In February 1951, after Rosyth had beaten them in the Scottish Junior Cup, the Luncarty club protested Sharpe's inclusion, claiming that his reinstatement as a junior was faulty because he had never previously played as such, having moved directly from juvenile football to a senior club. The Scottish Junior Football Association concurred. [8]
Sharpe moved on to Raith Rovers of Scottish League Division One, for whom he appeared for the reserves [9] but only once in a League match. [3] He became one of several Scots recruited in the 1952 close season by Bob Gurney for English Third Division North club Darlington. [10] He played 14 League matches in the 1952–53 season, and then moved into non-league football with Blackhall Colliery Welfare. [3]
He settled in Darlington, County Durham, where he worked at a garage and as a taxi driver [11] and continued to attend Darlington F.C.'s matches. [12] He was married to Jean and had a son. He died in February 2014. [2]
Personal information | |||
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Full name | Robert Sharpe [1] | ||
Date of birth | [1] | 20 December 1925||
Place of birth | Kirkcaldy, Scotland | ||
Date of death | 21 February 2014[2] | (aged 88)||
Position(s) | Right back | ||
Senior career* | |||
Years | Team | Apps | ( Gls) |
– | Dunfermline Athletic | 0 | (0) |
1947–194? | Thornton Hibs | ||
194?–1951 | Rosyth Recreation | ||
1951–1952 | Raith Rovers | 1 | (0) |
1952–1953 | Darlington | 14 | (0) |
– | Blackhall Colliery Welfare | ||
*Club domestic league appearances and goals |
Robert Sharpe (20 December 1925 – 21 February 2014) was a Scottish footballer who played as a right back in the Scottish League for Raith Rovers and in the English Football League for Darlington. [1] [3]
Sharpe was born in Kirkcaldy. [1] He played for Dunfermline Athletic in the 1945–46 wartime league [4] before being reinstated as a junior with Thornton Hibs in 1947. [5] By 1949 he was at Rosyth Recreation, [6] helping the club to the top of the Fife Junior League. [7] In February 1951, after Rosyth had beaten them in the Scottish Junior Cup, the Luncarty club protested Sharpe's inclusion, claiming that his reinstatement as a junior was faulty because he had never previously played as such, having moved directly from juvenile football to a senior club. The Scottish Junior Football Association concurred. [8]
Sharpe moved on to Raith Rovers of Scottish League Division One, for whom he appeared for the reserves [9] but only once in a League match. [3] He became one of several Scots recruited in the 1952 close season by Bob Gurney for English Third Division North club Darlington. [10] He played 14 League matches in the 1952–53 season, and then moved into non-league football with Blackhall Colliery Welfare. [3]
He settled in Darlington, County Durham, where he worked at a garage and as a taxi driver [11] and continued to attend Darlington F.C.'s matches. [12] He was married to Jean and had a son. He died in February 2014. [2]