Jimmy Dale (footballer)
{{short description|Scottish footballer (1869–1948)}}
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{{Infobox football biography
| name = Jimmy Dale
| fullname = John Dale
| birth_date = July qtr. 1870
| birth_place = Audley, Staffordshire, England
| death_date = January qtr. 1948 (aged 77)
| death_place = Stoke on Trent, England
| position = Half-back
| years1 = 1893–1894
| clubs1 = Sunderland
| caps1 = 0
| goals1 = 0
| years2 = 1894–1895
| clubs2 = Stoke
| caps2 = 4
| goals2 = 0
| years3 = 1895
| clubs3 = Southampton St Mary's
| caps3 = 3
| goals3 = 0
| years4 = 1895–????
| clubs4 = Audley Town
| caps4 =
| goals4 =
}}
John "Jimmy" Dale (1870–1948){{cite book|last1=Chalk|first1=Gary|last2=Holley|first2=Duncan|last3=Bull|first3=David|title=All the Saints: A Complete Players' Who's Who of Southampton FC|year=2013|location=Southampton|publisher=Hagiology Publishing|isbn=978-0-9926-8640-6|page=52}} was an English footballer, who played for Stoke and Southampton St Mary's in the 1890s.
Football career
Dale was born in Audley, Staffordshire,{{ref|A|a}} and started his football career with Sunderland in January 1893. He failed to break into Sunderland's first-team and returned to Staffordshire to join Stoke of the Football League First Division in June 1894.
At Stoke, he made four League appearances all of which came during the first month of the 1894–95 season before moving to the south coast to join Southampton St Mary's of the Southern League in October 1895, following several players, including Jack Farrell, Willie Naughton and Samuel Meston, who had moved in the summer together with Stoke's trainer, Bill Dawson.{{cite book|last=Matthews|first=Tony|title=The Encyclopaedia of Stoke City|year=1994|publisher=Lion Press|isbn=0-9524151-0-0}}
He made his debut for the "Saints" on 19 October 1895, taking the place of Ernie Taylor at right-half for the visit of Clapton to the Antelope Ground. The match ended in a 7–3 "thrashing"{{cite book | title=The Alphabet of the Saints|last= Holley |first= Duncan |author2=Chalk, Gary| publisher= ACL & Polar Publishing | year=1992| isbn=0-9514862-3-3|page=92}} by Clapton and after two further league matches and two in the FA Cup,{{cite book | title=Saints – A complete record|last= Chalk|first= Gary|author2=Holley, Duncan | publisher= Breedon Books| year=1987| isbn= 0-907969-22-4 |pages=18–19}} Dale returned to Staffordshire, where he played for his local club, Audley Town, and worked in the coal mines.
Career statistics
Source:{{ENFA}}
| class="wikitable" style="text-align: center;" | ||||||
| rowspan="2"|Club
!rowspan="2"|Season !colspan="3"|League !colspan="2"|FA Cup !colspan="2"|Total | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Division | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals |
| Stoke
|4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | |
| Southampton St Mary's
|3 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 5 | 0 | |
| colspan="3"|Career total
!7 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 9 | 0 |
Notes
- {{note|A|a}} Some older sources show that Dale was born in Motherwell, Scotland in July 1869.{{cite book|last1=Joyce|first1=Michael|title=Football League Players' Records: 1888 to 1939|date=2004|publisher=SoccerData|isbn=1-899468-67-6|page=68}}
References
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Category:People from Audley, Staffordshire
Category:Footballers from Staffordshire
Category:English men's footballers
Category:Men's association football defenders
Category:Stoke City F.C. players
Category:Sunderland A.F.C. players
Category:Southampton F.C. players