Bob Hutchinson

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Bob Hutchinson
Personal information
Full name Robert Hutchinson[1]
Date of birth (1894-12-22)22 December 1894
Place of birth Blyth, England
Date of death 3 August 1971(1971-08-03) (aged 76)[2]
Place of death Gosforth, England[2]
Height 5 ft 8+1⁄2 in (1.74 m)
Position(s)
Outside forward
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1914–1919 St Mirren 2 (0)
1919–1920 Newcastle United 0 (0)
1920–1922 Ashington 23 (4)
1922–1924 Nelson 60 (1)
1924 Stockport County 4 (1)
1924–1925 Chesterfield 13 (1)
1925–1926 Barrow 37 (4)
1926 New Bedford Whalers 10 (0)
1926 Springfield Babes 2 (0)
1927 Fall River F.C. 5 (2)
1927 Newark Skeeters 2 (0)
1927 Hartford Americans 11 (0)
1928 Darlington 3 (0)
1928–1930 West Stanley ? (?)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Robert Hutchinson (22 December 1894 – 3 August 1971) was an English professional

Football League clubs and for two seasons, Hutchinson had a spell in the United States. He played for 14 different teams during the course of his 16-year career, earning the moniker "nomadic" footballer.[3]

Career

Hutchinson started his career in amateur football with Palmer's (Jarrow) and Gosforth, before moving to

Army and had a spell as a wartime guest with Ashington from January 1915.[5] He later returned to St Mirren and played there until January 1919, when he joined Football League First Division club Newcastle United as an amateur. He was given a professional contract in May of the same year, but failed to break into the first team and left at the end of the 1919–20 campaign without having made a senior appearance.[3]

Hutchinson rejoined

Bradford Park Avenue.[6] He became first-choice left-winger at the club, and scored his first goal for the side in the 4–0 victory over Durham City at Seedhill on 10 February 1923. Hutchinson played every league game in the 1922–23 season as Nelson won the league, achieving promotion to the Football League Second Division for the first time in their history. He kept his place in the side and his final league match for Nelson was the 0–1 defeat to Oldham Athletic on 26 January 1924.[7] Later in the month, his stay with Nelson ended as he moved to Stockport County in a swap for Duggie Humphrey
.

His spell at Stockport was brief, as he played only four league games, scoring one goal. In the summer of 1924, Hutchinson returned to the Third Division North when he joined Chesterfield on a free transfer. After one goal in 13 matches, taking him to exactly 100 league appearances, he again switched clubs at the end of the campaign, signing for Barrow in July 1925. At Holker Street, Hutchinson became a first-team regular for the first time since leaving Nelson, scoring four goals in 37 games as the side finished bottom of the Third Division North.[8]

Hutchinson emigrated to the United States in 1926, initially playing with the

non-league football with West Stanley at the end of the season. After two years with the club, he became an amateur for Gosforth & Coxledge in September 1930, before retiring from football completely. Hutchinson died in Gosforth in the autumn of 1971, at the age of 76.[3]

Honours

Nelson

References

General
  • Dykes, Garth (2009). Nelson FC in the Football League. SoccerData.
    ISBN 978-1-905891-29-0
    .
  • Robinson, Michael (2006). Football League Tables 1888–2006. Soccer Books.
    ISBN 1-86223-143-5
    .
Specific
  1. ISBN 978-1905891610
    .
  2. ^ a b "Chesterfield FC: Football League players, 1921 to 2018". Archived from the original on 12 June 2018. Retrieved 27 October 2019.
  3. ^ a b c d Dykes, p. 47
  4. ^ a b Litster, John. Record of Pre-War Scottish League Players. Norwich: PM Publications.
  5. ^ "North East War Memorials Project – Regional Content". www.newmp.org.uk. Retrieved 27 October 2019.
  6. ^ Dykes, p. 76
  7. ^ Dykes, p. 77
  8. ^ Robinson, p. 20
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