:Cyril Walker (footballer)
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{{Infobox football biography
| name = Cyril Walker
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| fullname = Cyril John Walker{{Hugman|20284|accessdate=27 April 2019}}
| birth_date = {{birth date|1914|2|24|df=y}}
| birth_place = Newport Pagnell, England
| death_date = {{death date and age|2002|7||1914|2|14|df=y}}
| death_place = Chatham, England
| position = Inside forward
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| clubs1 = Hitchin Town
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| clubs2 = Leavesden Mental Hospital
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| years3 = 1935–1937
| clubs3 = Watford
| caps3 = 0
| goals3 = 0
| years4 = 1937
| clubs4 = Gillingham
| caps4 = 10
| goals4 = 3
| years5 = 1937–1938
| clubs5 = Sheffield Wednesday
| caps5 = 4
| goals5 = 0
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| clubs6 = Chelmsford City
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| clubs7 = Shorts Sports
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| years8 = 1946–1947
| clubs8 = Norwich City
| caps8 = 3
| goals8 = 2
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| clubs9 = Snowdown Colliery Welfare
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| years10 = 1951–1952
| clubs10 = Margate
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| clubs11 = Dartford
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| clubs12 = Chatham Town
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| managerclubs1 = Beckenham Town
| managerclubs2 = Ware
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Cyril John Walker (24 February 1914 – July 2002) was an English professional football player and manager.
Career
Born in Newport Pagnell, Walker started his football career as a striker in Hertfordshire, with Hitchin Town and Leavesden Mental Hospital. He joined Watford as a professional in 1935, but after failing to play a competitive game, joined Gillingham at the end of the 1936–37 season. His time at Gillingham was brief; after scoring 4 goals in 11 competitive games, he moved clubs again in October 1937, this time to Sheffield Wednesday. He spent most of the rest of his career in English wartime or non-league football, but had a brief spell at Norwich City in 1946–47, before finishing his playing days at Snowdown Colliery Welfare, Dartford, Chatham Town and Margate. Following his playing career, Walker served as manager for Beckenham{{cite web|url= http://www.margatefchistory.co.uk/cyrilwalker.htm|title= Cyril Walker|accessdate= 2008-01-07|url-status= dead|archiveurl= https://web.archive.org/web/20071011151735/http://www.margatefchistory.co.uk/cyrilwalker.htm|archivedate= 11 October 2007|df= dmy-all}} and in 1955/6 for Ware.
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Category:Sheffield Wednesday F.C. players
Category:Gillingham F.C. players
Category:Norwich City F.C. players
Category:Hitchin Town F.C. players
Category:Chelmsford City F.C. players
Category:Dartford F.C. players
Category:Chatham Town F.C. players
Category:English football managers
Category:Beckenham Town F.C. managers
Category:People from Newport Pagnell
Category:English men's footballers
Category:Men's association football forwards
Category:English Football League players
Category:20th-century English sportsmen
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