Alec Blakeman

{{short description|English footballer}}

{{Use dmy dates|date=February 2025}}

{{Use British English|date=March 2016}}

{{Infobox football biography

| name = Alec Blakeman

| image =

| fullname = Alec George Blakeman{{Hugman|1713|accessdate=20 October 2015}}

| birth_date = {{birth date|df=y|1918|6|11}}

| birth_place = Oxford, England

| death_date = {{death-date and age|November 1994|June 1918}}

| death_place = Headington, England

| height =

| position = Inside forward

| years1 =

| clubs1 = Wycombe Wanderers

| caps1 =

| goals1 =

| years2 = 1945–1946

| clubs2 = Oxford City

| caps2 = 15

| goals2 = 24

| years3 = 1946–1948

| clubs3 = Brentford

| caps3 = 42

| goals3 = 7

| years4 = 1948–1949

| clubs4 = Sheffield United

| caps4 = 5

| goals4 = 0

| years5 = 1949–1950

| clubs5 = Bournemouth

| caps5 = 25

| goals5 = 8

| years6 =

| clubs6 = March Town United

| caps6 =

| goals6 =

| nationalyears1 =

| nationalteam1 =

| nationalcaps1 =

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Alec George Blakeman (11 June 1918 – November 1994) was an English professional footballer who played in the Football League for Brentford, Sheffield United and Bournemouth as an inside forward.{{Cite web |title=Brentford Quick Guide from Chairboys on the Net |url=http://www.chairboys.co.uk/clubs/brentford.htm |access-date=6 January 2017 |website=www.chairboys.co.uk}}{{Cite web |title=Players (Alphabetic) |url=https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1c6aLlzmsim0rfrEtA2kWe601j6ZrsOW4awv4UXALACk/pub?hl=en&output=html# |access-date=6 January 2017}}{{Cite web |title=1945–1946 |url=http://citystats.moonfruit.com/1945-1946/4546887336 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180802021846/http://citystats.moonfruit.com/1945-1946/4546887336 |archive-date=2 August 2018 |access-date=3 August 2018 |website=Oxford City FC – History & Statistics |language=en}}

Personal life

Blakeman spent four years in a German prisoner of war camp during the Second World War.{{Cite news |date=24 August 1946 |title=Bees On Trial To-Day. Good News Of George Wilkins: Keen Fight For Inside-Forward Places |work=Middlesex Chronicle}}

Career statistics

class="wikitable" style="text-align: center;"

|+Appearances and goals by club, season and competition

! rowspan="2" |Club

! rowspan="2" |Season

! colspan="3" |League

! colspan="2" |FA Cup

! colspan="2" |Total

Division

!Apps

!Goals

!Apps

!Goals

!Apps

!Goals

rowspan="4" |Brentford

|1946–47{{Cite book |title=100 Years Of Brentford |publisher=Brentford FC |year=1989 |isbn=0951526200 |editor-last=White |editor-first=Eric |pages=379–380}}

|First Division

|8

|4

|0

|0

|8

|4

1947–48

|Second Division

|25

|2

|2

|0

|27

|2

1948–49

|Second Division

|9

|1

| colspan="2" |

|9

|1

colspan="2" |Total

!42

!7

!2

!0

!44

!7

Sheffield United

|1948–49{{WorldFootball.net|id=alec-blakeman}}

|First Division

|5

|0

|0

|0

|5

|0

colspan="3" |Career total

!47

!7

!2

!0

!49

!7

References

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