Terry Stoddart

{{short description|English footballer}}

{{use dmy dates|date=October 2014}}

{{use British English|date=October 2014}}

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|fullname = Terence Stoddart

|birth_date = {{birth date|1931|11|28|df=y}}

|birth_place = Newcastle upon Tyne, England

|death_date = {{death-date and age|October 2014|November 1931}}

|death_place = Newcastle upon Tyne, England

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|position = Wing half

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|years1 = 1949–1954 |clubs1 = Newcastle United |caps1 = 0 |goals1 = 0

|years2 = 1954–1956 |clubs2 = Darlington |caps2 = 8 |goals2 = 0

|years3 = 1956–1957 |clubs3 = York City |caps3 = 3 |goals3 = 0

|years4 = – |clubs4 = Poole Town |caps4 = |goals4 =

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Terence Stoddart (28 November 1931 – October 2014) was an English footballer who played as a wing half in the Football League for Darlington and York City. He was also on the books of Newcastle United without playing for their first team.{{Hugman|18898|accessdate=28 June 2018}}

Stoddart was born in Newcastle upon Tyne. He represented Northumberland at youth level,{{cite news |url=http://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000344/19481105/072/0007 |title=Northumberland Youth XI |newspaper=Morpeth Herald |date=5 November 1948 |page=7 |url-access=subscription |via=British Newspaper Archive}} and began his club career in Newcastle United's nursery team.{{cite news |url=http://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000344/19480220/039/0005 |title=Newcastle nursery team at Ashington |newspaper=Morpeth Herald |date=20 February 1948 |page=5 |url-access=subscription |via=British Newspaper Archive}} He played for the club's reserve team for several years,{{cite news |url=http://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000640/19491006/122/0009 |title=United side to visit Burnley |newspaper=Sunderland Echo |date=6 October 1949 |page=9 |url-access=subscription |via=British Newspaper Archive}}{{cite news |url=http://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000672/19510103/096/0003 |title=Samuels has 'hat-trick' |last=Scouter |newspaper=Burnley Express |date=3 January 1951 |page=3 |url-access=subscription |via=British Newspaper Archive}}{{cite news |url=http://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000672/19530211/067/0004 |title=Reserves attack had most of the play |newspaper=Burnley Express |date=11 February 1953 |page=4 |url-access=subscription |via=British Newspaper Archive}} but never for the first team, and in May 1954 he moved on to Third Division North club Darlington.{{cite news |title=Joins Darlington |newspaper=Daily Mirror |location=London |date=25 May 1954 |page=15}} He played only infrequently over two seasons, then spent a season with divisional rivals York City, again playing rarely, before moving into non-league football with Poole Town.{{cite web |url=http://www.neilbrown.newcastlefans.com/player11/terrystoddart.htm |title=Terry Stoddart |website=Post War English & Scottish Football League A–Z Players Database |publisher=Neil Brown |access-date=28 June 2018}}