Alf Gregson

Alf Gregson
Personal information
Full name Alfred Gregson
Date of birth (1889-03-02)2 March 1889
Place of birth Bury, England
Date of death March 1968 (aged 78–79)
Place of death Heywood, England
Height 5 ft 8 in (1.73 m)
Position Inside left
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
Unitarians
1911–1913 Rochdale 74 (36)
1913–1915 Grimsby Town 49 (12)
1915–1917 → Brentford (guest) 21 (11)
1919–1921 Bury 15 (1)
1921–1922 Rossendale United 6 (0)
* Club domestic league appearances and goals

Alfred Gregson (2 March 1889 – March 1968) was an English professional footballer who played as an inside left in the Football League for Grimsby Town and Bury.

Personal life

Gregson was married with a daughter born in 1915 and a son, who died in infancy in May 1917. In 1914, he was working as a tinsmith. In February 1915, six months after the outbreak of the First World War, Gregson enlisted as a private with the Football Battalion of the Middlesex Regiment. He suffered a gunshot wound to the left thigh near Bruay-la-Buissière in April 1916. Gregson finished the war as a corporal in the 4th (Service) Battalion and was discharged from the army in March 1920.

Career statistics

Appearances and goals by club, season and competition
Club Season League FA Cup Other Total
Division Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals
Rochdale 1910–11 Lancashire Combination First Division 15 2 ― ― 15 2
1911–12 Lancashire Combination First Division 32 21 1 0 6 4 39 25
1912–13 Central League 27 13 5 4 5 2 37 19
Total 74 36 6 4 11 6 91 46
Grimsby Town 1914–15 Second Division 15 1 0 0 ― 15 1
Career total 89 37 6 4 11 6 106 47
  1. ↑ 5 appearances and 4 goals in Manchester Senior Cup, 1 appearance in Lancashire Senior Cup
  2. ↑ 3 appearances and 1 goal in Manchester Senior Cup, 2 appearances and 1 goal in Lancashire Senior Cup

Honours

Rochdale

References

  1. 1 2 Joyce, Michael (2012). Football League Players' Records 1888 to 1939. Nottingham: Tony Brown. p. 118. ISBN 978-1-905891-61-0.
  2. ↑ "The coming of the big ball: the Second Division: Grimsby Town". Athletic News. Manchester. 18 August 1913. p. 5 – via British Newspaper Archive.
  3. ↑ White, Eric, ed. (1989). 100 Years Of Brentford. Brentford FC. pp. 363–364. ISBN 0-9515262-0-0.
  4. 1 2 3 "Grimsby Town Football Club". Archived from the original on 15 March 2011. Retrieved 11 June 2017.
  5. ↑ 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.
  6. 1 2 Alf Gregson on Lives of the First World War
  7. 1 2 3 4 Phillips, Steven (17 November 2001). Rochdale AFC: The Official History 1907–2001 (1st ed.). Yore Publications. ISBN 978-1-874427-09-4.
  8. ↑ "Grimsby Town Squad 1914/15". Football and the First World War. Retrieved 31 May 2017.
  9. ↑ Rochdale A.F.C. at the Football Club History Database