Albert George Dawes (23 April 1907 – 23 June 1973) was an English professional
footballer
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who played for
Northampton Town and
Crystal Palace as a
forward. He also played one first-class cricket game for
Northamptonshire County Cricket Club
Northamptonshire County Cricket Club is one of eighteen first-class county clubs within the domestic cricket structure of England and Wales. It represents the historic county of Northamptonshire. Its limited overs team is called the Northa ...
against
Derbyshire
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in 1933.
Albert's younger brother was
Fred Dawes, who also played professionally for both Crystal Palace and Northampton Town.
Playing career
Dawes began his playing career with
Northampton Town in 1929 and over four seasons made 184 overall appearances for the club, scoring 103 goals. In December 1933,
he signed for
Crystal Palace as replacement for
Peter Simpson who was injured at that time.
Dawes went on to make 105 League appearances in his first spell with Palace scoring 75 times. The 1935–36 season was his most successful scoring 38 times, heading the
Division Three South
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list of goal-scorers and receiving a call-up to the
England
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team.
However, he did not appear in the side, being named as twelfth-man, in an era without
substitutes.
In December 1936, Dawes was allowed to leave Crystal Palace for
Luton Town
Luton Town Football Club () is a professional association football club based in the town of Luton, Bedfordshire, England, that competes in the EFL Championship, Championship, the second tier of the English football league system. Founded in 1 ...
for a "large fee".
Luton were at that time promotion contenders and Dawes helped them to the title and promotion in 1937,
before returning to Palace in February 1938, after 44 appearances.
Dawes second spell at Crystal Palace was not as successful as the first and he moved on to
Aldershot
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in the close season of 1939,
after a further 44 appearances (16 goals).
The out-break of
World War II
World War II or the Second World War, often abbreviated as WWII or WW2, was a world war that lasted from 1939 to 1945. It involved the World War II by country, vast majority of the world's countries—including all of the great power ...
meant the end of Dawes senior professional career but he returned again to Crystal Palace and made appearances throughout the years of wartime regional league football, before retiring in 1946.
Later career
Albert Dawes died in
Goring-by-Sea,
Sussex on 23 June 1973 aged 66.
References
External links
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Albert Dawes' profile at cricinfo.comAlbert Dawes at holmesdale.net
English footballers
Aldershot F.C. players
Northampton Town F.C. players
Crystal Palace F.C. players
Luton Town F.C. players
Northamptonshire cricketers
1907 births
1973 deaths
English cricketers
Men's association football forwards
People from Goring-by-Sea
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