| Alf Gregson | |
| Fullname: | Alfred Gregson |
| Birth Date: | 2 March 1889 |
| Birth Place: | Bury, England |
| Death Date: | March |
| Death Place: | Heywood, England |
| Height: | 5 ft 8 in[1] |
| Position: | Inside left |
| Clubs1: | Unitarians |
| Years2: | 1911–1913 |
| Clubs2: | Rochdale |
| Caps2: | 74 |
| Goals2: | 36 |
| Years3: | 1913–1915 |
| Clubs3: | Grimsby Town |
| Caps3: | 49 |
| Goals3: | 12 |
| Years4: | 1915–1917 |
| Clubs4: | → Brentford (guest) |
| Caps4: | 21 |
| Goals4: | 11 |
| Years5: | 1919–1921 |
| Clubs5: | Bury |
| Caps5: | 15 |
| Goals5: | 1 |
| Years6: | 1921–1922 |
| Clubs6: | Rossendale United |
| Caps6: | 6 |
| Goals6: | 0 |
Alfred Gregson (2 March 1889 – March 1968) was an English professional footballer who played as an inside left in the Football League for Grimsby Town and Bury.[2] [3]
Gregson was married with a daughter born in 1915 and a son, who died in infancy in May 1917.[4] In 1914, he was working as a tinsmith. In February 1915, six months after the outbreak of the First World War, Gregson enlisted as a private with the Football Battalion of the Middlesex Regiment. He suffered a gunshot wound to the left thigh near Bruay-la-Buissière in April 1916.[5] Gregson finished the war as a corporal in the 4th (Service) Battalion and was discharged from the army in March 1920.
| Season | League | FA Cup | Other | Total | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Division | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | |||
| Rochdale | 1910–11[6] | Lancashire Combination First Division | 15 | 2 | ― | ― | 15 | 2 | |||
| 1911–12 | Lancashire Combination First Division | 32 | 21 | 1 | 0 | 6[7] | 4 | 39 | 25 | ||
| 1912–13 | Central League | 27 | 13 | 5 | 4 | 5[8] | 2 | 37 | 19 | ||
| Total | 74 | 36 | 6 | 4 | 11 | 6 | 91 | 46 | |||
| Grimsby Town | 1914–15[9] | Second Division | 15 | 1 | 0 | 0 | ― | 15 | 1 | ||
| Career total | 89 | 37 | 6 | 4 | 11 | 6 | 106 | 47 | |||
Rochdale