Gerry Young
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Gerald Morton Young | ||
| Date of birth | 1 October 1936 | ||
| Place of birth | Jarrow, County Durham, England | ||
| Playing position | Central defender | ||
| Youth career | |||
| Hawthorne Leslie | |||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 1955–1970 | Sheffield Wednesday | 310 | (13) |
| National team | |||
| 1964 | England | 1 | (0) |
| * Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. |
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Gerald Morton Young (born 1 October 1936 in Jarrow, County Durham, England) is an English former footballer who only played for Sheffield Wednesday in a career which lasted for 14 years.
Upon leaving school Gerry Young played for the Hawthorn Leslie shipyard team in Hebburn, Tyne and Wear. Young signed for Sheffield Wednesday in the early part of 1955 as a centre forward, however his chances of breaking into the side were restricted by the presence of players of the calibre of Redfern Froggatt, Roy Shiner and John Fantham. He made his debut on 2 March 1957 in an away defeat at Blackpool however he did not become a regular in the Wednesday side until December 1962 when Tony Kay was sold to Everton and Young was switched to central defence by manager Vic Buckingham as a replacement. While playing as a forward in the 1961-62 season he scored a hat trick in the Inter-Cities Fairs Cup against A.S. Roma.
Young was an ever-present in the following 1963–64 season when Wednesday finished sixth in Division One, his good form earned an England call up on 18 November 1964 against Wales. He was called up again for the following match against the Netherlands in December 1964 but had to pull out after rupturing a thigh muscle, he missed most of the rest of that season. He never got the chance to play for England again.
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