| Harry Stirzaker | ||
| Personal information | ||
|---|---|---|
| Full name | Henry Stirzaker | |
| Date of birth | 1869 | |
| Place of birth | Fleetwood, England | |
| Date of death | Unknown | |
| Playing position | Defender | |
| Senior clubs1 | ||
| Years | Club | App (Gls)* |
| -1894 1894-1903 |
Fleetwood Rangers Blackpool |
? (?) 154 (13) |
|
1 Senior club appearances and goals |
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Henry "Harry" Stirzaker was an English professional footballer. England is a Country which is part of the United Kingdom. Its inhabitants account for more than 83% of the total UK population whilst its mainland Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a Team sport played between two teams of eleven players and is widely considered He played as a defender and spent his entire professional career with Blackpool. In Association football (soccer a defender is a player who tries to prevent the other team from scoring Blackpool Football Club are an English football club founded in 1887 and located in the Lancashire seaside town of Blackpool.
After joining Blackpool from Fleetwood Rangers in 1894, Stirzaker wore the number-5 shirt in Blackpool's first-ever game in the Football League, a 3–1 defeat at Lincoln City on September 5, 1896. The Football League, also known as the Coca-Cola Football League for sponsorship reasons is a league competition featuring professional football clubs Lincoln City FC are an English football team currently playing in Football League Two (the fourth tier of the English football league system Events 1590 - Alexander Farnese 's army forces Henry IV of France to raise the siege of Paris. Year 1896 ( MDCCCXCVI) was a Leap year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian Calendar (or a Leap year [1] He went on to appear in all but the final three games of the 1896–97 season. He scored three goals: one in a 5–0 whitewash of Burton Wanderers at Bloomfield Road on September 19; one in a 3–2 home victory over Notts County on November 28; and Blackpool's goal in their 4–1 defeat at Loughborough on January 30, 1897. Burton Wanderers were a football club from Burton upon Trent, Staffordshire, England that spent three seasons in The Football League Bloomfield Road has been the home of English football club Blackpool Football Club since 1899 Events 335 - Dalmatius is raised to the rank of Caesar by his uncle Constantine I. Notts County Football Club is a football club based in Nottingham, England, and the oldest of all the clubs that are now professional For the town in Argentina, see 28 de Noviembre. Events Loughborough Athletic and Football Club were an English football club based in Loughborough, Leicestershire, that played in The Football Events 1648 - Eighty Years' War: The Treaty of Münster is signed ending the conflict between the Netherlands and Spain Year 1897 ( MDCCCXCVII) was a Common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian Calendar (or a Common Along with two other imports from Fleetwood Rangers – Bob Birkett and Jack Scott – Stirzaker was the mainstay of Blackpool's fledgling Football League team of the early part of the 20th century. Robert "Bob" Birkett (born 1879 in Weeton, Lancashire) was an English professional footballer who spent his entire ten-year career
In 1897–98, Stirzaker made 25 league appearances and scored one goal. Over the next three seasons, he made 93 league appearances and scored nine goals (six of which came in 1900–01).
Stirzaker stood in as an emergency goalkeeper for Blackpool's opening game of the 1901–02 season, when the club's first-choice 'keeper, Joe Dorrington, was unavailable. [2]
In 1902–03, Stirzaker made only nine appearances after being edged out of the team by utility player Geordie Anderson, who could either play in defence or in the forward line. George "Geordie" Anderson was a Scottish professional footballer.
Stirzaker's final game for Blackpool occurred on April 13, 1903, in the final game of the season – a 2–1 victory over Chesterfield at Bloomfield Road. Events 1111 - Henry V is crowned Holy Roman Emperor. 1204 - The Fourth Crusade sacks Constantinople Year 1903 ( MCMIII) was a Common year starting on Thursday (link will display calendar of the Gregorian calendar or a Common year starting Chesterfield Football Club is an English football club based in Chesterfield, Derbyshire.
See also
Notes
- ^ Mention of Stirzaker's playing in Blackpool's first-ever Football League match - Blackpool Gazette
- ^ Calley, Roy (1992). A one-club man is a term used to describe a football player who has played his entire professional Career with only one club Blackpool: A Complete Record 1887-1992, Breedon Books Sport, p. 179
References
- Calley, Roy (1992). Blackpool: A Complete Record 1887-1992. Breedon Books Sport. ISBN 1-873626-07-X.
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