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1915 births2002 deathsPeople from Leigh, Greater ManchesterEnglish footballersEverton F.C. playersEnglish Football League playersWigan Athletic F.C. players
LeighLancashireFootball LeagueBolton WanderersWigan Athletic1933-34 seasonCheshire County LeagueFirst DivisionEvertonGrimsby TownBlundell Park1938-39 seasonWorld War II1946-47 season1947-48 seasonGoodison ParkLuton TownAlzheimer's diseaseStourport
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Full name | Stanley Joseph Bentham | ||
Date of birth | (1915-03-17)17 March 1915 | ||
Place of birth | Leigh, England | ||
Date of death | 29 May 2002(2002-05-29) (aged 87)[1] | ||
Playing position | Wing half | ||
Senior career* | |||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
1933–1935 | Wigan Athletic | 5 | (3) |
1935–1949 | Everton | 110 | (17) |
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only |
Stanley Joseph Bentham (17 March 1915 – 29 May 2002) was an English footballer.
Born at Leigh, Lancashire, in 1915, he had a trial with Football League club Bolton Wanderers as a teenager in the early 1930s but was not offered a professional contract and signed for non-league Wigan Athletic instead. He played five times for the club in the 1933-34 season as they won the Cheshire County League title, scoring three goals.[2] He turned professional on 1 January 1935, still only aged 18, when First Division giants Everton signed him. He made his senior debut on 23 November 1935 in a league game against Grimsby Town at Blundell Park and was soon a regular first team player, missing just one league game in the 1938-39 season, but he was 23 years old when in September of that year World War II broke out and by the time league action resumed for the 1946-47 season, he was already 30 years old and had lost most of the prime years of his career.
He remained with Everton as a player before retiring at the end of the 1947-48 season, by which time he had played 125 competitive games for the Goodison Park club (110 of them in the league) and scored seven goals. He remained on the club's payroll as a coach until 1962, when he secured a similar position at Luton Town. This was his final job in football.
By the late 1990s, Bentham was suffering from Alzheimer's disease and was living in a nursing home at Stourport by the time of his death in May 2002 at the age of 87.[3]
References
^ "ToffeeWeb - Everton History: Obituaries". Archived from the original on 7 November 2012. Retrieved 22 March 2013..mw-parser-output cite.citationfont-style:inherit.mw-parser-output .citation qquotes:"""""""'""'".mw-parser-output .citation .cs1-lock-free abackground:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/65/Lock-green.svg/9px-Lock-green.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center.mw-parser-output .citation .cs1-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .citation .cs1-lock-registration abackground:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d6/Lock-gray-alt-2.svg/9px-Lock-gray-alt-2.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center.mw-parser-output .citation .cs1-lock-subscription abackground:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/aa/Lock-red-alt-2.svg/9px-Lock-red-alt-2.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registrationcolor:#555.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription span,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration spanborder-bottom:1px dotted;cursor:help.mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon abackground:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4c/Wikisource-logo.svg/12px-Wikisource-logo.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center.mw-parser-output code.cs1-codecolor:inherit;background:inherit;border:inherit;padding:inherit.mw-parser-output .cs1-hidden-errordisplay:none;font-size:100%.mw-parser-output .cs1-visible-errorfont-size:100%.mw-parser-output .cs1-maintdisplay:none;color:#33aa33;margin-left:0.3em.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration,.mw-parser-output .cs1-formatfont-size:95%.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left,.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-wl-leftpadding-left:0.2em.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right,.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-wl-rightpadding-right:0.2em
^ Hayes, Dean (1996). The Latics: The Official History of Wigan Athletic F.C. Harefield: Yore Publications. ISBN 1-874427-91-7.
^ "This Northern Soul – Them and us – Stan Bentham (Wigan Athletic and Everton)". 2 February 2012. Retrieved 9 May 2012.
External links
Stan Bentham at Post War English & Scottish Football League A–Z Player's Database
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