5'9" 11st.
b. Church 29 December 1896
d. Blackburn 24 March 1955
 

Debut  20 September 1919 (22y 265d) Final Game 17 January 1920 (23y 19d)
First Goal 27 September 1919 Final Goal 22 November 1919
CAREER: Oswaldtwistle St Mary's;Blackburn Rovers May'19;Nelson Apr'21[183-174];Swindon Town Aug'26[82-24];Accrington Stanley Jul'32;Fleetwood Town Aug'33;Darwen Aug'34.
 

FL     7 apps 3 gls

Discovered during the war years he received little chance with the Rovers where Joe Hodkinson was a fixture. He moved to a lower division with Nelson and obtained an astounding goal tally, 174 goals in 183 games. So settled that he did not wish to leave the north he turned down offers from better clubs until at the end of his career he joined Swindon, where he played well. Returning to Blackburn he kept the Station Hotel in Cherry Tree. Born in Church but raised in Oswaldtwistle he was the ninth of ten children. His father Richard was a labourer for a stone mason and Joseph worked at Howard and Bulloughs.