Dick Healey
Richard Healey (20 September 1889 – 1974) was an English footballer who played as an inside right or centre forward in the Football League for Sunderland , Middlesbrough and Darlington . [ 1 ] Healey began his football career as an amateur in his native Darlington . He helped Bishop Auckland win two Northern League titles and to reach the 1911 Amateur Cup Final , and also played non-league football for Stockton . He signed amateur forms with Football League club Sunderland in 1910, for whom he played three times and scored twice in the First Division . He won four caps for the England amateur team . Returning to Darlington F.C. in 1912, Healey was the club's top scorer as they won the 1912–13 North-Eastern League title, and was a member of the Amateur XI that opposed a team of professionals in the 1913 FA Charity Shield . In 1914, he turned professional with Middlesbrough , but played only four times, scoring twice. After the First World War, he returned to Darlington. He captained the team to the North-Eastern League title in 1921 and made 17 appearances in the Third Division North in the club's first two seasons in the Football League. As a cricketer , he played a few matches for Durham in the Minor Counties Championship , and had a long association with Darlington Cricket Club, as player, captain and president. [ 3 ] — Wikipedia
- Position
- FW
- Nationality
- United Kingdom
- Birthplace
- Darlington
- Born
- 20 Sept 1889
Healey began his football career with Darlington while still a schoolboy, [ 3 ] and was playing for Bishop Auckland as they won the Northern League title in the 1908–09 season. [ 13 ] His play attracted attention. In February 1910, he was selected for an amateur international trial, [ 14 ] and in March, he appeared for Sunderland 's North-Eastern League team, creating two goals and scoring the last in a 6–0 defeat of Darlington. [ 15 ] He made his Football League debut in April, in a 2–0 defeat away to Manchester United in the First Division . The Sunderland Daily Echo commented that he and fellow inside forward George Holley "perhaps did not make the most of their opportunities, for when in possession in the shooting zone they failed to shoot with sufficient power." [ 16 ] He kept his place for the last home match of the season, against Bradford City , "proved a keen worker", according to the Echo correspondent, and scored the first two goals in a 3–0 win. The first resulted from Bradford's goalkeeper Harry Maskrey losing the ball when attempting a clearance; he then "seized Healey, but the latter struggled free and jumping over Maskrey he put the ball in the net". The second was a header from a corner . [ 17 ] He missed Sunderland's last match of the season to play for Bishop Auckland in a 2–1 win against Scarborough that secured them the Northern League title . [ 18 ] Sunderland retained Healey's Football League registration for each season up to 1913–14, [ 19 ] but he played only once more for the first team, at Aston Villa in October 1911. [ 20 ] — Wikipedia
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