Joe Turner (footballer)
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Joseph Turner | ||
| Date of birth | March 1872 | ||
| Place of birth | Burslem, England | ||
| Date of death | 20 November 1950 (aged 78) | ||
| Place of death | Southampton, England | ||
| Height | 5 ft 8 in (1.73 m) | ||
| Playing position | Outside-forward | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 1893–1894 | Newcastle Swifts | ||
| 1894–1895 | Dresden United | ||
| 1895–1898 | Southampton St. Mary's | 56 | (28) |
| 1898–1900 | Stoke | 57 | (15) |
| 1900–1901 | Everton | 32 | (8) |
| 1901–1904 | Southampton | 68 | (28) |
| 1904–1906 | New Brompton | ||
| 1906–1908 | Northampton Town | ||
| – | Eastleigh Athletic | ||
| – | South Farnborough Athletic | ||
| * Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. |
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Joseph Turner (March 1872 – 20 November 1950) was a professional footballer who played in the 1902 FA Cup final for Southampton. Southampton were a Southern League club at the time, and their feat was all the more remarkable in that they had already been losing finalists two years earlier. Turner missed the 1900 final and had also previously missed a crucial penalty when Southampton lost a semi final to Nottingham Forest in 1898.
Turner was born in Burslem, Staffordshire and started his football career with Newcastle Swifts in 1893, before joining Dresden United the following year.
In the spring of 1895, Charles Robson, the newly appointed secretary/manager of Southampton St. Mary's, and Alfred McMinn, one of the club committee, visited "the Potteries" in search of new players to strengthen the team ready for their second season in the Southern League. McMinn was a native of Staffordshire and was "most persuasive on his home turf". On this trip, Robson and McMinn signed six players: Turner, Jack Farrell, Samuel Meston and Willie Naughton from Stoke, Watty Keay from Derby County and Alf Wood from Burslem Port Vale, as well as recruiting Stoke's long-serving trainer, Bill Dawson. The Saints committee were anxious to secure their services and signed then before the Football League season was over. Port Vale and Stoke lodged a complaint with the Football Association (FA) about "poaching", and an emergency FA meeting was held at Sheffield, resulting in the Saints being severely censured for negligence. St Mary's were ordered to pay their own costs, plus £4 6s 3d to Stoke and £1 13s to Port Vale. McMinn was suspended for a year and Dawson for a month. Wood's registration with St Mary's was cancelled (shortly afterwards he moved to Stoke).
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