Dick Everitt Explained

Dick Everitt
Fullname:Richard Ewart Everitt
Birth Date:3 May 1922
Birth Place:Carlisle, England
Death Place:Rotherham, England
Position:Forward
Caps1:0
Goals1:0
Years2:1945–1947
Clubs2:Darlington
Caps2:1
Goals2:0
Years3:1947–1949
Clubs3:Worksop Town
Years4:1949–1953
Clubs4:King's Lynn
Clubs5:March Town United
Clubs6:Long Sutton Town
Managerclubs1:Long Sutton Town (player-manager)

Richard Ewart Everitt (3 May 1922 – 18 May 2012) was an English amateur footballer who played in the Football League for Darlington.[1]

Life and career

Everitt was born in Carlisle, which was then in Cumberland. He was on the books of Sheffield Wednesday during the Second World War, making four first-team appearances in the wartime competitions, and moved on to Darlington during the 1944–45 season.[2] He made his debutwhich proved to be his only first-team appearance for Darlington and only appearance in the Football Leaguein the second match of the first post-war season, on 4 September 1946 against Lincoln City in the Football League Third Division North.[3]

Unwilling to commit to full-time football, Everitt worked on the railways and played non-league football, in which he scored profusely. In just two seasons with Midland League club Worksop Town, he scored 140 goals. In four seasons with King's Lynn of the Eastern Counties League, he hit 154 goals in 185 matches. He then appeared for March Town United and as player-manager of Long Sutton Town. He also coached at Rampton Hospital.

Away from football, Everitt worked for the Eastern Electricity Board, and he and his wife, Florence, kept pubs.[4] [5] He died in Rotherham, South Yorkshire, in 2012 at the age of 90.

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Darlington: 1946/47–1988/89 & 1990/91–2009/10 . Post War English & Scottish Football League A–Z Players Database . Neil Brown . 3 March 2017.
  2. Book: Rollin, Jack . Soccer at War 1939–45 . Headline . London . 2005 . 324–25, 408–09 . 978-0-7553-1431-7.
  3. Book: Tweddle, Frank . The Definitive Darlington F.C. . SoccerData . Nottingham . 2000 . 43, 102 . 978-1-899468-15-7.
  4. News: Dick Everitt . thelinnets.co.uk . Blue & Gold Supporters' Trust . 3 March 2017.
  5. News: Football: Linnets legend Dick Everitt dies at 90 . Lynn News . 22 May 2012 . 3 March 2017 . https://web.archive.org/web/20170304200028/https://www.lynnnews.co.uk/sport/football/football-linnets-legend-dick-everitt-dies-at-90-1-3868525 . 4 March 2017.