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]