Benjamin Dabbs

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Ben Dabbs
Personal information
Date of birth (1909-04-17)17 April 1909
Place of birth
Oakengates
, England
Date of death 30 December 2000(2000-12-30) (aged 91)
Position(s) Left-back
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1930–32 Oakengates Town
1932–38 Liverpool 56 (0)
1938–46 Watford
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Benjamin Edwin Dabbs (17 April 1909 – 30 December 2000) was an English

The Football League
.

Born at

Oakengates Town in 1926 before he signed for Liverpool in 1932. During his first two seasons at the latter club he only made 3 appearances, however the following two seasons saw him play 45 times. After these two seasons he was unable to establish himself in the first team and moved to Watford in 1938.[1]

Although he was on the Watford books until 1946, his last play was in three Southern League appearances in the incomplete 1939–40 season which was cut short by the

Second World War. In 1949-50 he was team coach with Rickmansworth Town
.

Dabbs, who lived at

care home shortly before his death at Chelmsford, Essex
, in December 2000, aged 91.

References

  1. ^ "Benjamin Dabbs". LFC History. Retrieved 23 March 2012.