Albert Worthy

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Albert Worthy
Personal information
Full name Albert Worthy[1]
Date of birth (1905-11-01)1 November 1905[1]
Place of birth Pilsley, England
Date of death 1 February 1978(1978-02-01) (aged 72)[1]
Place of death Lower Pilsley, England
Height 5 ft 9+12 in (1.77 m)[2]
Position Right back
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
Danesmoor
1926–1927 Chesterfield 7 (0)
1927–1933 Lincoln City 198 (5)
1933–1934 Southend United 28 (0)
1934–1937 Rochdale 99 (1)
Gainsborough Trinity
Shrewsbury Town
Total 332 (6)
* Club domestic league appearances and goals

Albert Worthy (1 November 1905 – 1 February 1978) was an English professional footballer who made 332 appearances in the Football League playing for Chesterfield, Lincoln City, Southend United and Rochdale. He played as a right back.[3]

Life and career

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Worthy was born in Pilsley, Derbyshire,[1] and played football for Danesmoor before joining Chesterfield. He played seven league games during the 1926–27 season before moving on to Third Division North rivals Lincoln City.[3] He scored his first Football League goal from a free kick in a 5–0 defeat of Barrow in October 1928.[4] He rarely missed a match in his first five seasons with the club,[1] at the end of which they won the Third Division North title and consequent promotion.[5] Worthy was not a regular first choice in the Second Division,[1] and left the club for Southend United of the Third Division South in the 1933 close season. After one season in which he played 30 games in all competitions,[6] he returned to the Northern Section for three years with Rochdale, after which he played non-league football for Gainsborough Trinity and Shrewsbury Town.[3]

Worthy died in Lower Pilsley, Derbyshire, in 1978 at the age of 72.[7]

References

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