Charlie Craven
Personal information
Date of birth (1909-12-02)2 December 1909
Place of birth Boston, England
Date of death 30 March 1972(1972-03-30) (aged 62)
Place of death Solihull, England
Height 5 ft 8 in (1.73 m)[1]
Position(s) Inside left
Youth career
Boston Trinity
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
Boston Town
1930–1938 Grimsby Town 256 (95)
1938 Manchester United 11 (2)
1938–1939 Birmingham 17 (2)
1939–1951 Tamworth
1951–19?? Sutton Town
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Charlie Craven (2 December 1909 – 30 March 1972) was an English footballer who played as an inside left.

Born in Boston, Lincolnshire, Craven started his football career with local teams before joining Grimsby Town, with whom he won the Second Division in 1934. He went on to score 99 goals in 283 appearances in the top two divisions of the Football League for Grimsby, Manchester United, who paid £6,000 for his services in June 1938, and Birmingham, whom he joined only six months later. He was named as reserve for England for the match against Holland in 1935. He moved into non-League football with Tamworth shortly before the Second World War started, guested for Coventry City and Birmingham during the war, and left Tamworth for Sutton Town in 1951. He died in Solihull, Warwickshire at the age of 62.

Honours

Grimsby Town

References

  1. ↑ "No new faces in Grimsby's first team". Sunday Dispatch Football Guide. London. 23 August 1936. p. iv – via Newspapers.com.
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