Harry Burgess (footballer)

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Harry Burgess

Full name	Harry Burgess
Date of birth	August 20, 1904
Place of birth	Alderley Edge, England
Date of death	October 6, 1957 (aged 53)
Place of death	Wilmslow, England
Height	5 ft 8½ in (1.74 m)
Playing position	Inside-left
Youth clubs
to 1925	Alderley Edge F.C. Sandbach Ramblers
Senior clubs¹
Years	Club	App (Gls)*
1925-29 1929-35 1935-45	Stockport County Sheffield Wednesday Chelsea	112 (72) 215 (70) 142 (34)
National team
1930-31	England	4 (4)
¹ Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. * Appearances (Goals)

Harry Burgess (20 August 1904 – 6 October 1957) was an English footballer who played at Inside-left for Stockport County, Sheffield Wednesday where he won the league championship in 1929/30, and Chelsea. He won four caps for England scoring four goals.

1 Biography
2 Club statistics
3 International statistics
4 External links

[edit] Biography

Harry was born in Alderley Edge, Cheshire and played for Alderley Edge and Wilmslow Albion before appearing for Sandbach Ramblers in the Cheshire County League. In 1925 he signed for Stockport County making his debut on March 13th 1926 in the 4-0 defeat at Hull City. He made two more appearances in the 1925/26 season in which County were relegated from the Second Division. Harry finished the season on loan at Sandbach Ramblers but returned to Stockport ready for the 1926/27 season.

The Hatters were playing in Third Division (North) for the second time but unlike 1921/22 they could not bounce back and finished sixth in a season that Burgess flourished. He hit his first professional goal in a 3-3 draw with Lincoln at Edgeley Park on September 4, 1926 and continued strongly finishing the season as County's leading marksman with an impressive 28 goals from 35 matches. The following season County finished third with Harry scoring a dozen and in 1928/29 he once again top scored for the Hatters with 31 goals. Burgess' prodigious scoring talent and dribbling skills had attracted a number of First Division scouts to keep tabs on the 25 year old and although Arsenal and Newcastle United made attempts to sign him, the lure of First Division champions The Wednesday was enough for him to move to Hillsborough on June 29, 1929 for a fee of £3,500 which was a record fee paid for a Stockport Player.

Adding Harry to the team wasn't the only change The Wednesday made in the summer of 1929 with the 1929/30 season being the first with their new name Sheffield Wednesday. Burgess joined a great team of players under their legendary manager Bob Brown and he quickly showed his worth scoring on his debut at Aston Villa on September 14, 1929. Wednesday went on to retain the title with Burgess scoring 19 goals controversially losing an FA Cup Semi-final to Huddersfield to miss out on the opportunity to be the first team to win the double in the 20th Century.

At the start of the 1930/31 season Harry's form for Wednesday attracted the attention of the England selectors and he made his debut on October 20th 1930 against Northern Ireland at Bramall Lane. He scored twice in a 5-1 England win, a match in which three other Wednesday players appeared Ernie Blenkinsop, Alf Strange and Tony Leach. This is one of the two occasions to date that Wednesday have had four players in the England team.

[edit] Club statistics

Club	Season	League		FA Cup		Total
Club	Season	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals
Stockport County	1925-26	3	0	0	0	3	0
	1926-27	35	28	1	0	36	28
	1927-28	35	12	2	0	37	12
	1928-29	42	31	3	1	45	32
Sheffield Wednesday	1929-30	39	19	6	1	45	20
	1930-31	40	15	2	1	42	16
	1931-32	37	7	5	4	41	11
	1932-33	38	8	1	0	39	8
	1933-34	38	12	5	1	43	13
	1934-35	23	9	0	0	23	9
Chelsea	1934-35	10	3	0	0	10	3
	1935-36	31	11	5	1	36	12
	1936-37	29	5	1	0	30	5
	1937-38	36	7	1	0	37	7
	1938-39	36	8	6	3	42	11
Career totals		472	175	38	12	510	187

[edit] International statistics

#	Date	Venue	Opponent	Result	Competition
1	1930-10-20	Bramall Lane, Sheffield, England	Northern Ireland	5-1	British Home Championship
2	1931-03-28	Hampden Park, Glasgow, Scotland	Scotland	0-2	British Home Championship
3	1931-05-14	Colombes, Paris, France	France	2-5	Friendly match
4	1931-05-16	Oscar Bossaert Stadion, Brussels, Belgium	Belgium	4-1	Friendly match