Albert Bloxham

Albert Bloxham
Personal information
Date of birth	26 November 1905
Place of birth	Solihull, England
Date of death	29 August 1996 (aged 90)
Place of death	Crawley, England
Height	5 ft 10 in (1.78 m)
Playing position(s)	Outside right
Senior career*
	* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only

Albert Bloxham (26 November 1905 – 29 August 1996) was an English professional footballer who scored 13 goals in 80 appearances in the Football League playing for Birmingham, Chesterfield and Millwall.[1] He played as an outside right.

Bloxham was born in Solihull, which was then part of Warwickshire. He began his football career with Overton-on-Dee while working as an office clerk, then played for Oswestry Town and for Torquay United in the 1926–27 season[2] when they won the Southern League title.[3] Bloxham himself moved on to First Division club Birmingham in March 1927.[2] He made his Football League debut on 8 October 1927, deputising for Benny Bond in a home game against Sheffield Wednesday which Birmingham won 3–2. He scored in the next game, but Bond then returned to the starting eleven.[4]

Unable to gain a regular first-team place, he moved on to Rhyl Athletic, then back INto the Football League for a few months with Chesterfield, and then to Scotland where he spent the 1928–29 season with Raith Rovers as they were relegated from the First Division of the Scottish League.[2][5] Bloxham then returned to England for two seasons with Yeovil & Petters United in the Southern and Western Leagues before joining Millwall of the Football League Second Division.[2][6] With Millwall he played regularly for two seasons, scoring 11 goals in 70 league matches, before retiring from the game in 1933.[2]

Bloxham died in Crawley, West Sussex, in 1996 at the age of 90.[7]

References

Joyce, Michael (2004). Football League Players' Records 1888 to 1939. Nottingham: SoccerData. p. 29. ISBN 978-1-899468-67-6.
Matthews, Tony (1995). Birmingham City: A Complete Record. Derby: Breedon Books. p. 73. ISBN 978-1-85983-010-9.
"Torquay United". Football Club History Database. Richard Rundle. Archived from the original on 19 April 2009. Retrieved 10 April 2009.
Matthews, p. 170.
Ross, James M. (3 January 2007). "Scotland – List of Divisional Movements". Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation (RSSSF). Archived from the original on 27 April 2009. Retrieved 10 April 2009.
"Yeovil & Petters United". Football Club History Database. Richard Rundle. Retrieved 10 April 2009.
Basson, Stuart (18 February 2010). "Chesterfield FC: Football League players, 1921 to 2008". Chesterfield F.C. Archived from the original (XLS) on 4 December 2011.

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[Joyce-1] Joyce, Michael (2004). Football League Players' Records 1888 to 1939. Nottingham: SoccerData. p. 29. ISBN 978-1-899468-67-6.

[Matthews73-2] Matthews, Tony (1995). Birmingham City: A Complete Record. Derby: Breedon Books. p. 73. ISBN 978-1-85983-010-9.

[3] "Torquay United". Football Club History Database. Richard Rundle. Archived from the original on 19 April 2009. Retrieved 10 April 2009.

[4] Matthews, p. 170.

[5] Ross, James M. (3 January 2007). "Scotland – List of Divisional Movements". Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation (RSSSF). Archived from the original on 27 April 2009. Retrieved 10 April 2009.

[6] "Yeovil & Petters United". Football Club History Database. Richard Rundle. Retrieved 10 April 2009.

[Chesterfield-7] Basson, Stuart (18 February 2010). "Chesterfield FC: Football League players, 1921 to 2008". Chesterfield F.C. Archived from the original (XLS) on 4 December 2011.