Albert Clarke
Football, Military Person
1916 – 1944
Who was Albert Clarke?
Albert W. Clarke was an English professional footballer who played as a forward. He scored 39 goals in 84 appearances in the Football League playing for Torquay United, Birmingham and Blackburn Rovers.
Clarke was born in Sheffield, and began his football career with Mexborough Town and Frickley Colliery before turning professional with Torquay United of the Third Division South. He spent 16 months with Torquay before moving to First Division club Birmingham in 1936. Before the 1938–39 season he moved again, joining Blackburn Rovers in exchange for Wally Halsall. He averaged a goal every other game for Blackburn, helping them to the Second Division title, before the Football League was suspended on the outbreak of the Second World War. During the war he made guest appearances for Torquay and won the War League Cup with Blackburn. He died in 1944 on active service with the Devonshire Regiment.
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