Alf Walker

Alf Walker
	Walker in a Port Vale team photo.
Personal information
Full name	Alfred Samuel Walker
Date of birth	26 August 1884
Place of birth	Upper Holloway, England
Date of death	14 September 1961 (aged 77)
Place of death	Newcastle-under-Lyme, England
Position(s)	Outside left
Youth career
	Wolverton
Senior career*
Years	Team
1906–1907	Northampton Town
1907–1909	Leyton
1909–1910	Brentford
1910–1911	Wolverhampton Wanderers
1911–1914	Port Vale
	Dunfermline Athletic
Total
	* Club domestic league appearances and goals

Alfred Samuel Walker (26 August 1884 – 14 September 1961) was an English footballer who played in the Football League for Wolverhampton Wanderers.

Career

Walker played for Wolverton, Northampton Town and Brentford,^[2] before joining Wolverhampton Wanderers for a £150 fee in April 1910.^[3] He scored twice 35 games for the club,^[4] as they posted eighth and ninth places finishes in the Football League Second Division in 1909–10 and 1910–11. He joined non-League Port Vale in 1911 and enjoyed regular football in Burslem, helping the club to lift the Birmingham Senior Cup in 1913.^[1] However, he lost his place in October 1913 and after colliding with low railings at the Old Recreation Ground on 26 January 1914 was out of action for some time.^[1] He was released at the end of the season and moved on to Scottish side Dunfermline Athletic.^[1]

By 1949, Walker was working as the managing director of Sanitary Supply Co Ltd in Burslem.^[5]

Appearances and goals by club, season and competition^[6]
Club	Season	League			FA Cup		Total
Club	Season	Division	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals
Brentford	1909–10	Southern League First Division	14	3	0	0	14	3
Wolverhampton Wanderers	1909–10	Second Division	1	0	0	0	1	0
	1910–11	Second Division	31	2	3	0	34	2
	Total		32	2	3	0	35	2
Port Vale	1911–12	Central League	23	1	0	0	0	0
	1912–13	Central League	33	6	4	1	37	7
	1913–14	Central League	15	0	1	0	16	0
	Total		71	7	5	1	76	8

Port Vale

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f Kent, Jeff (1996). Port Vale Personalities. Witan Books. p. 299. ISBN 0-9529152-0-0.
^ ^a ^b Joyce, Michael (2012). Football League Players' Records 1888 to 1939. Nottingham: Tony Brown. p. 297. ISBN 978-1905891610.
^ White, Eric, ed. (1989). 100 Years Of Brentford. Brentford FC. p. 95. ISBN 0951526200.
^ "Wolverhampton Wanderers Players a-Z". Scribd.com. Retrieved 15 January 2009.
^ "A Port Vale programme from 1949". onevalefan.co.uk. 23 October 2013. Retrieved 4 June 2020.
^ Alf Walker at the English National Football Archive (subscription required)