Syd Carter
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Sydney Youles Carter (28 July 1916 – 15 September 1978) was an English footballer who played as a centre forward in the Football League for Mansfield Town.[1]
Personal information | |||
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Full name | Sydney Youles Carter[1] | ||
Date of birth | (1916-07-28)28 July 1916[1] | ||
Place of birth | Chesterfield, England | ||
Date of death | 15 September 1978(1978-09-15) (aged 62)[1] | ||
Place of death | Mansfield, England | ||
Position(s) | Centre forward | ||
Senior career* | |||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
Bolsover Colliery | |||
1936–1937 | Sheffield United | 0 | (0) |
1937 | Wolverhampton Wanderers | 0 | (0) |
1937–1938 | Macclesfield Town | 39 | (40) |
1938–1947 | Mansfield Town | 39 | (10) |
*Club domestic league appearances and goals |
Carter was born in Chesterfield, Derbyshire, in 1916.[1] He began his football career with Bolsover Colliery,[2] and had spells on the books of Sheffield United and Wolverhampton Wanderers, without playing league football for either,[3] before joining Macclesfield Town in 1937. In his only season with the club, he scored 40 goals from 39 appearances in the Cheshire League, a return that included 6 in Macclesfield's 8–4 defeat of Hurst.[4][5]
He signed for Mansfield Town of the Football League Third Division North in May 1938, and established himself in the first team over the following season,[2] but his career was disrupted by the Second World War. By the time the Football League resumed, he was 30. He returned to Mansfield and made a few more appearances in 1946–47, after which he joined the club's backroom staff, first as assistant trainer and then as trainer in his own right.[6] Carter died in Mansfield in 1978 at the age of 62.[1]