Frank Shufflebottom

Frank Shufflebottom
Personal information
Date of birth (1917-10-09)9 October 1917
Place of birth Chesterfield, England
Height 5 ft 10 in (1.78 m)
Playing position Right back
Youth career
1935–1936 Margate
Senior career*
Years Team Apps† (Gls)†
1936–1939 Ipswich Town 43 (0)
1939–1946 Nottingham Forest 2 (0)
→(wartime)
→Raith Rovers (guest)
→Kilmarnock (guest)
1945–1946 →Dundee United (guest) 16 (1)
1946–1948 Bradford City 56 (0)

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

† Appearances (goals)

Frank Shufflebottom (born 9 October 1917) was an English professional footballer who played as a right back.

Career

Born in Chesterfield, Shufflebottom began his career at Margate, before turning professional with Ipswich Town in June 1936. Over the next three seasons Shufflebottom made a total of 43 appearances in the Southern Football League.[1] His career was interrupted by World War Two; he signed for Nottingham Forest in June 1939,[2] but didn't make an official appearance until the Football League began again in 1946.[3] During and immediately after the War, Shufflebottom was a guest player for Scottish clubs Raith Rovers, Kilmarnock and Dundee United.[4] He moved to Bradford City in October 1946, making 56 league appearances over the next two years.[5]

References

  1. ↑ "Profile". Pride of Anglia. Retrieved 26 February 2011.
  2. ↑ "Forest sign a new full-back". Nottingham Evening Post. 29 June 1939. Retrieved 5 August 2014 – via British Newspaper Archive. (subscription required (help)).
  3. ↑ "Nottingham Forest : 1946/47 – 2009/10". Post War English & Scottish Football League A - Z Player's Transfer Database. Retrieved 26 February 2011.
  4. ↑ Gracie, Steve (2009). The Rise of the Terrors. Dundee: Arabest Publishing. p. 215. ISBN 978 0 9558341 1 0.
  5. ↑ "Bradford City : 1946/47 – 2009/10". Post War English & Scottish Football League A - Z Player's Transfer Database. Retrieved 26 February 2011.


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