Les Sullivan
Appearance
Personal information | |||
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Full name | Leslie Gordon Sullivan[1] | ||
Date of birth | 6 August 1912 | ||
Place of birth | Croydon, England[1] | ||
Date of death | January 1996[2] | (aged 83)||
Place of death | Stockport, England[3] | ||
Height | 5 ft 8 in (1.73 m)[2] | ||
Position(s) | Outside left | ||
Senior career* | |||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
1932 | Gillingham | ||
1932 | Burn Naze | ||
1932–1933 | Fleetwood | ||
1933 | Blackburn Rovers | 0 | (0) |
1933–1934 | Lytham | ||
1934–1935 | Rochdale | 32 | (9) |
1935–1936 | Brentford | 0 | (0) |
1936–1937 | Bristol Rovers | 39 | (10) |
1938–1939 | Chesterfield | 7 | (0) |
1939 | Stockport County | 0 | (0) |
1939 | Macclesfield | 0 | (0) |
*Club domestic league appearances and goals |
Leslie Gordon Sullivan (6 August 1912 – January 1996) was an English professional footballer who played as an outside left in the Football League for Bristol Rovers, Rochdale and Chesterfield.[1][4]
Personal life
[edit]Sullivan was the son of cricketer Dennis Sullivan.[5]
Career statistics
[edit]Club | Season | League | FA Cup | Other | Total | |||||
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Division | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | ||
Rochdale | 1934–35[6] | Third Division North | 32 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 1[a] | 0 | 33 | 9 |
Bristol Rovers | 1935–36[7] | Third Division South | 0 | 0 | ― | 1[b] | 1 | 0 | ||
1936–37[7] | Third Division South | 25 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 1[c] | 27 | 6 | ||
1937–38[7] | Third Division South | 14 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 2[d] | 17 | 4 | ||
Total | 39 | 10 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 45 | 10 | |||
Chesterfield | 1938–39[8] | Second Division | 7 | 0 | 2 | 0 | ― | 9 | 0 | |
Career total | 78 | 19 | 4 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 87 | 19 |
- ^ Appearance in Third Division North Cup
- ^ Appearance in Bristol Hospitals Cup
- ^ Appearance in Gloucestershire Senior Cup
- ^ Appearances in Third Division South Cup
References
[edit]- ^ a b c Joyce, Michael (2012). Football League Players' Records 1888 to 1939. Nottingham: Tony Brown. p. 280. ISBN 978-1905891610.
- ^ a b "S, T and U". The Bristol Rovers History Group. Retrieved 16 March 2023.
- ^ "Chesterfield FC: Player-based information – 1921–2018". Sky is Blue – The Chesterfield FC history resource. 8 June 2017. Retrieved 13 January 2017.
- ^ "Sullivan Les Chesterfield 1938". Vintage Footballers. Retrieved 5 July 2019.
- ^ Argus (19 July 1935). ""Bees'" Big Proft. Over £2,000 Made Last Season. Players Assessed At £40,000. Race Against Time to Prepare Ground for Crowd of 40,000". The Brentford & Chiswick Times.
- ^ Phillipps, Steven (2001). Rochdale AFC: The Official History 1907–2001. Harefield, Middlesex: Yore. ISBN 1-874427-09-7. OCLC 48531524.
- ^ a b c "Rovers results, appearances and goalscorers 1899 to 2022". The Bristol Rovers History Group. Retrieved 10 July 2023.
- ^ "Line-ups – Chesterfield FC, 1919 to date: 1938-39". Sky is Blue – Chesterfield FC history & statistics. Retrieved 4 April 2019.
Categories:
- English men's footballers
- English Football League players
- 1912 births
- 1996 deaths
- Footballers from the London Borough of Croydon
- People from Croydon
- Men's association football outside forwards
- Fleetwood Town F.C. players
- Blackburn Rovers F.C. players
- Lytham F.C. players
- Rochdale A.F.C. players
- Bristol Rovers F.C. players
- Chesterfield F.C. players
- Stockport County F.C. players
- Macclesfield Town F.C. players
- Brentford F.C. players
- 20th-century English sportsmen
- English football forward, 1910s birth stubs