Ken Davies (footballer)

Kenneth Davies (20 September 1923 – 14 November 2008) was an English professional footballer who played as a winger in the Football League for Walsall and Brighton & Hove Albion.[1]

Ken Davies
Kenneth Davies Wolverhampton Wanderers 1944-46
Personal information
Full name Kenneth Davies[1]
Date of birth (1923-09-20)20 September 1923[1]
Place of birth Doncaster, England
Date of death 14 November 2008(2008-11-14) (aged 85)[1]
Place of death Exeter, England
Height 5 ft 6 in (1.68 m)[2]
Position(s) winger
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1944–1946 Wolverhampton Wanderers 2 (2)
1946–1948 Walsall 28 (5)
1948–1950 Brighton & Hove Albion 36 (5)
1950–1958 Chippenham Town
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only

Life and career

Davies was born in Doncaster, West Riding of Yorkshire, in 1923.[1] He played junior football along with Billy Woodcock, brother of Bruce who would become British Heavyweight Boxing Champion and continued in the position of Centre Forward at Oswin Avenue School. He qualified at Doncaster Plant works as a coppersmith working on such legendary engines as The Silver Link, The Flying Scotsman and The Mallard. As war loomed this would become reserved occupation so Kenneth was never enlisted. Kenneth played football for the plant team and after one of the games was approached by Mr. Mark Crook offering the opportunity to become a professional footballer. He joined Wath Wanderers and spent time at the nursery club before playing for the parent club Wolverhampton Wanderers in wartime football 1944–46. He scored his first goal playing against Aston Villa at Villa Park playing alongside the great Billy Wright. He moved on to Walsall of the Third Division South ahead of the 1946–47 Football League season for a £600 fee.[2] He scored 5 goals from 28 league appearances over two seasons,[3] and then moved on to another Southern Section club, Brighton & Hove Albion for a £250 fee, where he played 38 league matches over two years, again scoring 5 goals.[2] Together with three Brighton teammates, Eric Lancelotte, Fred Leamon and Jock Sim, he signed for Chippenham Town in 1950.[4] He helped Chippenham win the 1951–52 Western League title, finish as runners-up three years later, and was still with them in the 1956–57 season.[5]

Davies died in Exeter in 2008 at the age of 85.[1]

References
  1. "Ken Davies". Barry Hugman's Footballers. Retrieved 2 September 2018.
  2. Carder, Tim; Harris, Roger (1997). Albion A–Z: A Who's Who of Brighton & Hove Albion F.C. Hove: Goldstone Books. p. 68. ISBN 978-0-9521337-1-1.
  3. Edwards, Leigh. "Ultimate Saddlers A–Z 5". Walsall F.C. Archived from the original on 7 February 2011.
  4. "Re-discovered". Sports Argus. Birmingham. 2 September 1950. p. 4.
  5. "Trowbridge receive Cup 'K.O.'". Wiltshire Times. Trowbridge. 27 October 1956. p. 16.


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