David Pryde

For the politician, see David Johnstone Pryde.
Personal information
Full name David Pryde
Date of birth 10 November 1913
Place of birth Newtongrange, Midlothian, Scotland
Date of death 1987
Playing position Wing half
Youth career
Margate
Senior career*
Years Team Apps† (Gls)†
1935-1946 Arsenal 4 (0)
1935-1937 → Margate (loan)
1946-1950 Torquay United 64 (0)

* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only.

† Appearances (goals)

David Pryde (10 November 1913 – 1987) was a Scottish association football player.

Born in Newtongrange, Pryde started out as an amateur at Margate, before being signed by Margate's "parent" club, Arsenal, in May 1935. He was immediately loaned back out to Margate for another two seasons, before returning to Arsenal and taking his place in the club's reserve side as wing half. He made his first-team debut in a First Division match against Sunderland on 4 February 1939, a game Arsenal won 2-0. He went on to make four appearances that season, but like many footballers of his generation, his career was interrupted by World War II.

During the War he served with the Royal Air Force in India and Burma, while occasionally playing wartime matches for Arsenal (making 23 appearances in total, which are not officially counted). By the time official football had resumed in 1946-47, Pryde was 32, and he left Arsenal in October 1946 with just four pre-war league appearances to his name. He moved to Torquay United and spent four seasons there, making 64 league appearances, before retiring in 1950. He died in 1987.

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