Joe Dickenson

{{short description|English footballer}}

{{Use dmy dates|date=April 2018}}

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

{{Infobox football biography

| name = Joe Dickenson

| image = JoeDickenson.jpg

| caption =

| fullname = Joseph Dickenson

| birth_date = 1873

| birth_place = Chatham, England

| death_date =

| death_place =

| height =

| position = Winger

| youthyears1=

| youthclubs1=

| years1 = 1892–1894 | years2 = 1894–1895 | years3 = 1895–? | years4 = | years5 =1903

| clubs1 = Bolton Wanderers | clubs2 = New Brompton | clubs3 = Chatham | clubs4 = Grays United | clubs5 =New Brompton

| caps1 = 42 | goals1 = 11 | caps2 = 11 | goals2 = 5 | caps3 = | goals3 = | caps4 = | goals4 = | caps5 = 2 | goals5 = 0

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Joseph Dickenson was an English footballer. He made his Football League debut in 1892 for Bolton Wanderers and went on to make 42 league appearances for the club, scoring 11 goals.{{cite book |first=Michael|last=Joyce |title=Football League Players' Records 1888–1939| publisher=Tony Brown | year=2004| isbn=1-899468-67-6|pages=74}} He also appeared for the club in the 1894 FA Cup Final.{{Cite web |url=http://world.nottscountyfc.co.uk/page/HistoryDetail/0,,10426~1028230,00.html |title=FA Cup glory |date=23 April 2008 |publisher=Notts County F.C. |accessdate=17 June 2008 |archive-date=20 April 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180420082356/http://world.nottscountyfc.co.uk/page/HistoryDetail/0,,10426~1028230,00.html |url-status=dead }} In 1894 he moved to New Brompton and made 11 appearances in the club's first season in the Southern Football League.{{cite book

| last = Brown

| first = Tony

| title = The Definitive Gillingham F.C.: A Complete Record

| publisher = Soccerdata

| year = 2003

| isbn = 1-899468-20-X

| pages =12}} After spells playing for Chatham and Grays United he returned to New Brompton in 1903 and made a further two appearances.{{cite book

| last = Brown

| first = Tony

| title = The Definitive Gillingham F.C.: A Complete Record

| publisher = Soccerdata

| year = 2003

| isbn = 1-899468-20-X

| pages =21}}

Personal life

Dickenson married Kate in 1894 in Kent and they had five children.{{citation needed|date=May 2024}} By 1911 they resided in Caversham, Oxfordshire.{{citation needed|date=May 2024}} Three occupations are listed for Joseph in census, ship's joiner, warehouseman and fruit dealer.{{citation needed|date=May 2024}}

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