Walter Crickmer

Walter Raymond Crickmer
Personal information
Date of birth	1900
Place of birth	Wigan, Lancashire, England
Date of death	6 February 1958 (age 57–58)
Place of death	Munich, Germany
Teams managed
Years	Team
1931–1932	Manchester United
1937–1945	Manchester United

Walter Raymond Crickmer (1900 – 6 February 1958) was an English football club secretary and manager.

He became Manchester United club secretary in 1926.^[1] He twice assumed managerial responsibility: from 1 April 1931 to 1 June 1932, and then again from 1 August 1937 to 1 February 1945.

Together with club owner James W. Gibson, he was responsible for instituting the youth development system at Manchester United. After 32 years of service as club secretary, Crickmer was killed in the Munich air disaster on 6 February 1958.^[2]^[3] He is buried at Stretford Cemetery.^[4]

He was married to Nellie Robertson from 1921^[5] until his death. She outlived him by nine years, dying in 1967.They had one daughter, Beryl, who was born in 1921.

Managerial statistics

Team	Nat	From	To	Record
Team	Nat	From	To	G	W	D	L	Win %
Manchester United		April 1931	June 1932	43	17	8	18	39.53
Manchester United		November 1937	February 1945	76	30	24	22	39.47

References

↑ "Red Life Managers". Archived from the original on 15 October 2012.
↑ "Olive was ultimate club man". Manchester Evening News. 24 May 2006. Retrieved 9 December 2008.
↑ Williams, Richard (2 February 2008). "Presses stopped in Manchester as Guardian man confirmed dead". London: The Guardian. Retrieved 9 December 2008.
↑ Archived October 22, 2009, at the Wayback Machine.
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External links

Walter Crickmer management career statistics at Soccerbase

Manchester United F.C. – managers

Albut^s (1892–1900)
West^s (1900–03)
Mangnall^s (1903–12)
Bentley^s (1912–14)
Robson (1914–21)
Chapman (1921–26)
Hilditch^p (1926–27)
Bamlett (1927–31)
Crickmer (1931–32)
Duncan (1932–37)
Crickmer (1937–45)
Busby (1945–69)
Murphyⁱ (1958)
McGuinness (1969–70)
Busby (1970–71)
O'Farrell (1971–72)
Docherty (1972–77)
Sexton (1977–81)
Atkinson (1981–86)
Ferguson (1986–2013)
Moyes (2013–14)
Giggs^{p i} (2014)
Van Gaal (2014–)

(s) = secretary; (p) = player-manager; (i) = interim

Munich air disaster

6 February 1958

Deaths	Geoff Bent Roger Byrne Eddie Colman Walter Crickmer Tom Curry Donny Davies Duncan Edwards Mark Jones David Pegg Frank Swift Tommy Taylor Bert Whalley Billy Whelan

Survivors	Johnny Berry Jackie Blanchflower Matt Busby Bobby Charlton Bill Foulkes Harry Gregg Kenny Morgans Albert Scanlon Dennis Viollet Ray Wood

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