Albert Bloxham Explained

Albert Bloxham
Position:Outside right
Birth Date:26 November 1905
Birth Place:Solihull, England
Death Place:Crawley, England
Years1:1925–192?
Clubs1:Overton-on-Dee
Years2:192x–1926
Clubs2:Oswestry Town
Years3:1926–1927
Clubs3:Torquay United
Years4:1927–1928
Caps4:3
Goals4:1
Years5:1928
Clubs5:Rhyl Athletic
Years6:1928
Caps6:7
Goals6:1
Years7:1928–1929
Years8:1929–1931
Clubs8:Yeovil & Petters United
Years9:1931–1933
Caps9:70
Goals9:11

Albert Bloxham (26 November 1905 – 29 August 1996) was an English professional footballer who scored 13 goals in 80 appearances in the Football League playing for Birmingham, Chesterfield and Millwall.[1] He played as an outside right.

Bloxham was born in Solihull, which was then part of Warwickshire. He began his football career with Overton-on-Dee while working as an office clerk, then played for Oswestry Town and for Torquay United in the 1926–27 season[2] when they won the Southern League title.[3] Bloxham himself moved on to First Division club Birmingham in March 1927.[2] He made his Football League debut on 8 October 1927, deputising for Benny Bond in a home game against Sheffield Wednesday which Birmingham won 3–2. He scored in the next game, but Bond then returned to the starting eleven.[4]

Unable to gain a regular first-team place, he moved on to Rhyl Athletic, then back INto the Football League for a few months with Chesterfield, and then to Scotland where he spent the 1928–29 season with Raith Rovers as they were relegated from the First Division of the Scottish League.[2] [5] Bloxham then returned to England for two seasons with Yeovil & Petters United in the Southern and Western Leagues before joining Millwall of the Football League Second Division.[2] [6] With Millwall he played regularly for two seasons, scoring 11 goals in 70 league matches, before retiring from the game in 1933.[2]

Bloxham died in Crawley, West Sussex, in 1996 at the age of 90.[7]

Notes and References

  1. Book: Joyce, Michael . Football League Players' Records 1888 to 1939 . SoccerData . Nottingham . 2004 . 29 . 978-1-899468-67-6.
  2. Book: Matthews, Tony . Birmingham City: A Complete Record . 1995 . Breedon Books . Derby . 73 . 978-1-85983-010-9.
  3. Web site: Torquay United . Football Club History Database . Richard Rundle . 10 April 2009. https://web.archive.org/web/20090419013207/http://fchd.info/TORQUAYU.HTM. 19 April 2009 . live.
  4. Matthews, p. 170.
  5. Web site: Scotland – List of Divisional Movements . Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation (RSSSF) . James M. . Ross . 3 January 2007 . 10 April 2009. https://web.archive.org/web/20090427003921/http://www.rsssf.com/tabless/scotall.html. 27 April 2009 . live.
  6. Web site: Yeovil & Petters United . Football Club History Database . Richard Rundle . 10 April 2009.
  7. Web site: Chesterfield FC: Football League players, 1921 to 2008 . Chesterfield F.C. . XLS . Basson . Stuart . 18 February 2010 . https://web.archive.org/web/20111204022833/http://www.chesterfield-fc.co.uk/staticFiles/fd/49/0%2C%2C10435~150013%2C00.xls . 4 December 2011 . dead .