George Dewsnip

{{short description|English footballer}}

{{Use dmy dates|date=April 2016}}

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

{{Infobox football biography

| name = George Dewsnip

| fullname =

| image = George Dewsnip, Los Angeles Aztecs 1979 media guide page 14.png

| caption = Dewsnip in 1979

| birth_date = {{birth date and age|df=y|1956|05|06}}

| birth_place = Little Hulton{{cite book|title=Rothmans Football Yearbook 1978-1979|date=August 1978|publisher=Macdonald and Jane's|page=386}}Salford, England

| height =

| position = Left winger

| youthyears1 =

| youthclubs1 = Thurrock

| youthclubs2 = Gidea Park Rangers

| years1 = 1972–1974

| years2 = 1974–1977

| years3 = 1977–1978

| years4 = 1978–1979

| years5 = 1979

| years6 = 1980

| years7 = 1980–1982

| years8 = 1982

| clubs1 = Preston North End

| clubs2 = Southport

| clubs3 = Fort Lauderdale Strikers

| clubs4 = Los Angeles Aztecs

| clubs5 = Atlanta Chiefs

| clubs6 = Columbus Magic

| clubs7 = Cleveland Force (indoor)

| clubs8 = New Jersey Rockets (indoor)

| caps1 = 0

| caps2 = 87

| caps3 = 28

| caps4 = 13

| caps5 = 17

| caps6 =

| caps7 = 54

| caps8 = 12

| goals1 = 0

| goals2 = 11

| goals3 = 3

| goals4 = 3

| goals5 = 0

| goals6 =

| goals7 = 18

| goals8 = 1

| manageryears1 =

| managerclubs1 =

}}

George Dewsnip is an English retired professional footballer who played in the Football League, North American Soccer League, American Soccer League and Major Indoor Soccer League.

He became an apprentice in 1972 and later signed professional terms with Preston North End but was released in 1974 without making a first team appearance.Rothmans Football Yearbook 1974-1975 (published 1974), Queen Anne Press, p380 He then joined nearby Southport.{{Hugman|5089|accessdate=24 January 2019}}{{NeilBrownPlayers|player12/georgedewsnip}}

In June 1977, Southport sold Dewsnip's contract to the Fort Lauderdale Strikers of the North American Soccer League for £11,000.{{Cite web |url=http://dspace.dial.pipex.com/bob.dunning/thirty55a.htm |title=Southport FC: June 1977 |access-date=12 June 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110604030639/http://dspace.dial.pipex.com/bob.dunning/thirty55a.htm |archive-date=4 June 2011 |url-status=dead }} In June 1978, the Strikers sent Dewsnip, Andy Rolland and the number one selection in the 1980 NASL Draft to the Los Angeles Aztecs in exchange for George Best.{{cite web|url=http://home.comcast.net/~dulyjs/strikers/strikers_history.html|title=Fort Lauderdale Strikers History|publisher=}} He spent a season and a half in Los Angeles before being sent to the Atlanta Chiefs. He finished the 1979 season in Atlanta, then played for the Columbus Magic of the American Soccer League in 1980. That fall, he signed with the Cleveland Force of the Major Indoor Soccer League.