Bob Curry
Personal information | |||
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Full name | Robert Curry | ||
Date of birth | 2 November 1918 | ||
Place of birth | Gateshead, England | ||
Date of death | June 2001 | (aged 82)||
Position(s) |
Inside forward | ||
Senior career* | |||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
1936–1937 | Gateshead | ||
1937–1938 | Sheffield Wednesday | 1 | (0) |
1939–1940 |
→ Bradford Park Avenue (wartime guest) | 5 | (3) |
1940–1941 | → Sheffield Wednesday (wartime) | 7 | (1) |
1943–1944 | → Leeds United (wartime guest) | 1 | (2) |
1943–1944 | → Lincoln City (wartime guest) | 1 | (0) |
1944–1945 | → Mansfield Town (wartime guest) | 13 | (5) |
1944–1946 | → Sheffield United (wartime guest) | 19 | (6) |
1945–1946 | Gainsborough Trinity | ||
1946–1951 | Colchester United | 138 | (78) |
1951–195? | Clacton Town | ||
– | Halstead Town | ||
Managerial career | |||
– | Clacton Town | ||
– | Halstead Town | ||
*Club domestic league appearances and goals |
Robert Curry (2 November 1918 – June 2001) was an English professional
Career
Early career
Curry started his football career with his hometown club, Gateshead of the Third Division North, in the 1936–37 season. He did not make a first team appearance before signing for Second Division Sheffield Wednesday in September 1937. He only made one first team appearance with the Owls and that was in his first season of 1937–38, when he made his debut at Hillsborough in a 1–2 loss to Aston Villa on 18 September 1937.
War years
Curry played seven times for Sheffield Wednesday in 1940–41 and scored once but that was all the games he took part in for his employers during the war years. Prior to this, he also guested five times for
Colchester United
Curry signed for Colchester before the start of the 1946–47 season and made his debut for them, and scored, just a couple of months before his twenty-eighth birthday in the home match with
By the end of his Colchester career, Curry had played 138 league games for the U's, scoring 78 goals in that time. He was a captain of the team and led the U's through their momentous FA Cup run of
Honours
Club
- Southern League runner-up: 1949–50
- Southern League Cup: 1949–50
- Southern League Cup runner-up: 1947–48, 1948–49
References
- ^ "Leeds United F.C. History – Bob Curry". Ozwhitelufc.net.au.
- ^ 2010–11 Hall of Fame Inductees
- ^ "Southern League Honours". Coludaybyday.co.uk.
- ^ "Southern League Cup Honours". Coludaybyday.co.uk.
External links
- Bob Curry at Post War English & Scottish Football League A–Z Player's Transfer Database
- "Bob Curry Career Stats at coludata.co.uk". Archived from the original on 13 June 2012. Retrieved 12 May 2011.
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