Bob Curry
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Robert Curry | ||
| Date of birth | 2 November 1918 | ||
| Place of birth | Gateshead, England | ||
| Date of death | June 2001 (aged 82) | ||
| Playing position | Inside forward | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 1936–1937 | Gateshead | ||
| 1937–1938 | Sheffield Wednesday | 1 | (0) |
| 1939–1940 | → Bradford Park Avenue (wartime guest) | 5 | (3) |
| 1940–1941 | → Sheffield Wednesday (wartime) | 7 | (1) |
| 1943–1944 | → Leeds United (wartime guest) | 1 | (2) |
| 1943–1944 | → Lincoln City (wartime guest) | 1 | (0) |
| 1944–1945 | → Mansfield Town (wartime guest) | 13 | (5) |
| 1944–1946 | → Sheffield United (wartime guest) | 19 | (6) |
| 1945–1946 | Gainsborough Trinity | ||
| 1946–1951 | Colchester United | 138 | (78) |
| 1951–195? | Clacton Town | ||
| – | Halstead Town | ||
| Teams managed | |||
| – | Clacton Town | ||
| – | Halstead Town | ||
| * Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. |
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Robert "Bob" Curry (2 November 1918 – June 2001), born in Gateshead, was a professional footballer who played as an inside forward for Sheffield Wednesday and Colchester United in the Football League.
Curry started his football career with his hometown club, Gateshead of the Third Division North, in the 1936–37 season. He did not make a first team appearance before signing for Second Division Sheffield Wednesday in September 1937. He only made one first team appearance with the Owls and that was in his first season of 1937–38, when he made his debut at Hillsborough in a 1–2 loss to Aston Villa on 18 September 1937.
Curry played seven times for Sheffield Wednesday in 1940–41 and scored once but that was all the games he took part in for his employers during the war years. Prior to this, he also guested five times for Bradford Park Avenue in 1939–40 and scored three goals. He guested for Leeds United in the 1943–44 Football League Northern Section (Second Championship) in a 2–2 draw at Derby County in which Curry scored both Leeds goals. Curry had one game for Lincoln City in 1943–44 but did not score. He scored five times in thirteen games for Mansfield Town in the 1944–45 season and also played six times and scored once for Sheffield United in the same season and then scored five times in thirteen games for them in the 1945–46 season. He left Hillsborough for non-league Gainsborough Trinity and then with Colchester United, where he was a consistent scorer in their Southern League days.
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