5'10"  11st.4lb.
b. Golborne  31 March 1933
d. Barrow 20 July 2015
 

Debut 19 August 1961 (28y 141d) Final Game 9 May 1966 (33y 39d)
CAREER: St Wilfred's,Standish;Wigan Athletic;St Wilfred's Standish;81 Heavy Ack Ack Regiment;Axwell Park;Preston North End Aug'53[215]; Blackburn Rovers Aug'61 (£20,000);Barrow (p-m) Jul'66-May'70[148].
ENGLAND B 1 app ’57 v Sco.
 

FL          187 apps
FAC        18 apps
FLC         16 apps
Total    221 apps
Penalty record  F 18 Sc 12 Sv 2 M S Sv-R 2
Minutes per goal  55  Clean Sheet %  21
Longest unbeaten  398m First conceded 117m
Most goals one game   5
ASL        6 apps
FC           1 app
Penalty record F 1 Sc 1
Minutes per goal 53

For many seasons Else had earned the reputation of being one of the game's least spectacular but most reliable goalkeepers. A man who relied on positioning and working out the correct angles he seldom went for the flamboyant when the orthodox would serve. The abolition of the maximum wage created a valuation for performance and Else thought his ambitions would be best served at Ewood. For the Rovers it marked the first real upgrade in the position since the war. For a time Else was as recommended, calm, efficient almost unnoticed but in the last months of his career he began to show frailties in his game that had not previously existed. After a spell as player manager at Barrow, where he also for a time ran the social club, he trained as a mathematics teacher and taught in the area for fifteen years. In 1999 he retired and bought a house in Peyia on the island of Cyprus. When he was diagnosed with cancer he decided to return to the UK and took up residence once again in Barrow.