Bruce Clarke (soccer)
Appearance
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Personal information | |||
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Full name | Bruce Mitchell Clarke[1] | ||
Date of birth | 4 October 1910 | ||
Place of birth | Johannesburg, South Africa | ||
Height | 6 ft 0 in (1.83 m)[2] | ||
Position(s) | Right half | ||
Senior career* | |||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
Hillside Juniors | |||
1928 | Montrose | ||
1928–1934 | Third Lanark | 112 | (13) |
1934–1938 | Fulham | 112 | (1) |
Worcester City | |||
*Club domestic league appearances and goals |
Bruce Mitchell Clarke (born 4 October 1910, date of death unknown)[3] was a football player who played as a right half for Fulham in the Football League.[1] He also played in England for Worcester City and in Scotland for Hillside Juniors, Montrose and Third Lanark[1] (where he won the Scottish Division Two title in 1930–31 and was selected for two editions of the Glasgow Football Association's annual challenge match against Sheffield.)[4][5][6]
Clarke's grandson Chad Perris is an international para-athlete for Australia.
References
[edit]- ^ a b c Joyce, Michael (2004). Football League Players' Records 1888 to 1939. SoccerData. p. 54. ISBN 1-899468-67-6.
- ^ "Fulham. Cox is just what Fulham needed". Sunday Dispatch Football Guide. London. 23 August 1936. p. vi – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ White, Alex (31 August 2012). The Fulham FC Miscellany. Stroud: The History Press. ISBN 978-0752490571.
- ^ John Litster (October 2012). "A Record of pre-war Scottish League Players". Scottish Football Historian magazine.
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(help) - ^ Glasgow Well Beaten in Inter-City Match Archived 14 March 2016 at the Wayback Machine, The Glasgow Herald, 17 September 1929 (via Partick Thistle History Archive)
- ^ Sheffield Defeats Glasgow Archived 14 March 2016 at the Wayback Machine, The Glasgow Herald, 15 September 1931 (via Partick Thistle History Archive)
Categories:
- 1910 births
- Soccer players from Johannesburg
- South African men's soccer players
- Montrose F.C. players
- Third Lanark A.C. players
- Fulham F.C. players
- Worcester City F.C. players
- English Football League players
- Scottish Football League players
- Men's association football wing halves
- South African soccer biography stubs