Frank Shufflebottom
Personal information | |||
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Date of birth | 9 October 1917 | ||
Place of birth | Chesterfield, England | ||
Height | 5 ft 10 in (1.78 m) | ||
Position(s) | Right back | ||
Youth career | |||
1935–1936 | Margate | ||
Senior career* | |||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
1936–1939 | Ipswich Town | 43 | (0) |
1939–1946 | Nottingham Forest | 2 | (0) |
→(wartime) | |||
→Raith Rovers (guest) | |||
→Kilmarnock (guest) | |||
1945–1946 | →Dundee United (guest) | 16 | (1) |
1946–1948 | Bradford City | 56 | (0) |
*Club domestic league appearances and goals |
Frank Shufflebottom (born 9 October 1917, date of death unknown) was an English professional footballer who played as a right back.
Career
[edit]Born in Chesterfield, Shufflebottom began his career at Margate, before turning professional with Ipswich Town in June 1936. Over the next three seasons Shufflebottom made a total of 43 appearances in the Southern Football League.[1] His career was interrupted by World War Two; he signed for Nottingham Forest in June 1939,[2] but didn't make an official appearance until the Football League began again in 1946.[3] During and immediately after the War, Shufflebottom was a guest player for Scottish clubs Raith Rovers, Kilmarnock and Dundee United.[4] He moved to Bradford City in October 1946, making 56 league appearances over the next two years.[5]
References
[edit]- ^ "Profile". Pride of Anglia. Retrieved 26 February 2011.
- ^ "Forest sign a new full-back". Nottingham Evening Post. 29 June 1939. Retrieved 5 August 2014 – via British Newspaper Archive.
- ^ "Nottingham Forest : 1946/47 – 2009/10". Post War English & Scottish Football League A - Z Player's Transfer Database. Retrieved 26 February 2011.
- ^ Gracie, Steve (2009). The Rise of the Terrors. Dundee: Arabest Publishing. p. 215. ISBN 978-0-9558341-1-0.
- ^ "Bradford City : 1946/47 – 2009/10". Post War English & Scottish Football League A - Z Player's Transfer Database. Retrieved 26 February 2011.
- 1917 births
- English men's footballers
- Margate F.C. players
- Ipswich Town F.C. players
- Nottingham Forest F.C. players
- Bradford City A.F.C. players
- Southern Football League players
- English Football League players
- Dundee United F.C. wartime guest players
- Raith Rovers F.C. wartime guest players
- Kilmarnock F.C. wartime guest players
- Men's association football fullbacks
- Footballers from Chesterfield
- English football defender, 1910s birth stubs