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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
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| 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
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^ 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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