Harry Burgess (footballer)
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| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Date of birth | 20 August 1904 | ||
| Place of birth | Alderley Edge, England | ||
| Date of death | 6 October 1957 (aged 53) | ||
| Place of death | Wilmslow, England | ||
| Height | 5 ft 8.5 in (1.74 m) | ||
| Playing position | Inside-left | ||
| Youth career | |||
| Alderley Edge | |||
| Sandbach Ramblers | |||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 1925–1929 | 112 | (72) | |
| 1929–1935 | Sheffield Wednesday | 215 | (70) |
| 1935–1942 | Chelsea | 142 | (34) |
| National team | |||
| 1930–1931 | England | 4 | (4) |
| * Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. |
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Harry Burgess (20 August 1904 – 6 October 1957) was an English footballer who played at Inside-left for , Sheffield Wednesday where he won the league championship in 1929–30, and Chelsea. He won four caps for England scoring four goals.
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 making his debut on 13 March 1926 in the 4–0 defeat at Hull City. He made two more appearances in the 1925–26 season in which 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 4 September 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 29 June 1929 for a fee of £3,500 which was a record fee paid for a Player.
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