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Bobby Gurney
Personal information
Date of birth 13 October 1907
Place of birth    Silksworth, County Durham, England
Date of death    21 April 1994 (aged 86)
Place of death    England
Playing position Striker
Senior career1
Years Club App (Gls)*
19??–1925
1925–1950		 Bishop Auckland
Sunderland		 0? 00(?)
388 (228)   
National team
1935 England 01 00(0)
Teams managed
1950–1952
1952–1957
1963–1964		 Peterborough United
Darlington
Hartlepools United

1 Senior club appearances and goals
counted for the domestic league only.
* Appearances (Goals)

Bobby Gurney (13 October 1907 - 21 April 1994) was a football forward who is the highest goal scorer in the history of his only senior club as a player, Sunderland.

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[edit] Early years

Born in Stewart Street, Silksworth, Sunderland, his father Joe was a miner at Silksworth Colliery. His mother, Elizabeth, stayed at home to look after Bobby, his three brothers and one sister. Bobby took up football as a child, playing for his village team. His older brother, Ralph, also played football, as a goalkeeper. All his brothers went into pit jobs after leaving school.

[edit] Sunderland

Bobby was signed to Sunderland in May 1925, after being spotted by Charlie Buchan while playing for top non-league side Bishop Auckland. He made his debut nearly a year later against West Ham United on 3 April 1926, scoring once in a 3–2 defeat. He would play for the next three seasons alongside a striker who hit at least 35 league goals in each of his four full seasons at Roker Park, Dave Halliday, the most prolific goals to games striker in Sunderland's history.[1]

After Halliday's departure Gurney was regularly the club's top goalscorer, garnering his best tally of 33 goals in the 1930–31 season. Among his career highlights were ten hat-tricks and two four-goal hauls. He was also one of just a handful of Sunderland players to score five times in a match.

Bobby went on to make 388 league appearances for Sunderland, scoring 228 goals, which makes him the club's all time top scorer. He won a First Division Championship medal in 1936. He scored in a 3–1 win over Preston North End at Wembley in the 1937 FA Cup Final.

[edit] International

Gurney won one international cap, representing England against Scotland at Hampden Park before 129,693 spectators.

[edit] Management

On retiring from playing he stayed in the game and in 1950 became manager of Midland League side Peterborough United. He was subsequently manager of Darlington, and finally had a short spell as manager of Hartlepools United.

[edit] Honours

[edit] As a player

Sunderland

[edit] Managerial statistics

Team Nat From To Record
G W L D Win %
Peterborough United England August 1950 May 1952 0 0 0 0 0.00
Darlington England May 1952 October 1957 267 85 123 59 31.8
Hartlepools United England April 1963 January 1964 44 9 25 10 20.5

[edit] References

  1. ^ Dave Halliday profile on "Queens Legends" on the official Queen of the South FC website

[edit] External links

Awards
Preceded by
Ted Drake		 First Division top scorer
1935–36		 Succeeded by
Freddie Steele
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Peterborough United F.C. – Managers

Porter (1934–36) · Taylor (1936–37) · Poulter (1937–38) · Madden (1938–48) · Blood (1948–50) · Gurney (1950–52) · Fairbrother (1952–54) · Swindin (1954–58) · Hagan (1958–62) · Anderson (caretaker) (1962) · Fairbrother (1962–64) · Anderson (caretaker) (1964) · Clark (1964–67) · Rigby (caretaker) (1967) · Rigby (1967–69) · Iley (1969–72) · Cantwell (1972–77) · Barnwell (1977–78) · Hails (caretaker) (1978–79) · Morris (1979–82) · Wilkinson (1982–83) · Wile (1983–86) · Cantwell (1986–88) · Jones (1988–89) · Booth (caretaker) (1989) · Lawrenson (1989–90) · Booth (caretaker) (1990–91) · Turner (1991–92) · Fuccillo (caretaker) (1992–93) · Turner (caretaker) (1993–94) · Still (1994–95) · Halsall (caretaker) (1995) · Halsall (1995–1996) · Fry (1996–2005) · Wright (2005–06) · Bleasdale (2006) · Atkinson and Fry (caretakers) (2006) · Alexander (2006–07) · Taylor (caretaker) (2007) · Ferguson (2007–09) · Cooper (2009–)
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Darlington F.C. – Managers

McIntosh (secretary) (1902–11) · Lane (secretary) (1911–12) · Jackson (1912–19) · English (player) (1919–21) · English (1921–28) · Fairless (1928–33) · Collins (1933–36) · Brown (player) (1936–38) · J. Carr (1938–42) · Surtees (1942) · English (1945–46) · Forrest (1946–50) · Irwin (1950–52) · Gurney (1952–57) · Duckworth (1957–60) · E. Carr (1960–64) · Morgan (player) (1964–66) · Greenhalgh (1966–68) · Yeoman (1968–70) · Richley (1970–71) · Brennan (1971–72) · Hale (1972) · Jones (1972) · Brand (1972–73) · Conner (1973–74) · Horner (1974–75) · Madden (1975–78) · Walker (1978–79) · Elliott (1979–83) · Knowles (1983–87) · Booth (1987–89) · Little (1989–91) · F. Gray (1991–92) · Hankin (1992) · McEwan (1992–93) · Murray (1993–95) · Futcher (1995) · Hodgson and Platt (joint managers) (1995) · Platt (1995–96) · Hodgson (1996–2000) · Bennett (2000–01) · Taylor (2001–02) · Tait (caretaker) (2002–03) · Tait (2003) · Hodgson (2003–06) · M. Gray and Maddison (joint caretakers) (2006) · Penney (2006–09) · M. Gray (caretaker) (2009) · Liddle and Maddison (temporary joint caretakers) (2009) · Todd (2009) · Liddle (temporary caretaker) (2009) · Staunton (2009–)
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Hartlepool United F.C. – Managers

Priest (1908–12) · Humphreys (1912–13) · Manners (1913–20) · Potter (1920–22) · Gordon (1922–24) · Manners (1924–27) · Norman (1927–31) · Carr (1932–35) · Hamilton (1935–40) · Westgarth (1943–57) · Middleton (1957–59) · Robinson (1959–62) · Chilton (1962–63) · Gurney (1963–64) · Williams (1964–65) · Twentyman (1965) · Clough (1965–67) · McLean (1967–70) · Simpson (1970–71) · Ashurst (1971–74) · Hale (1974–76) · Horner (1976–83) · Duncan (1983) · Docherty (1983) · Horner (1983–86) · Bird (1986–88) · Moncur (1988–89) · Knowles (1989–91) · Murray (1991–93) · Busby (1993) · MacPhail (1993–94) · McCreery (1994–95) · Houchen (1995–96) · Tait (1996–99) · Baker and Honour (1999) · Turner (1999–2002) · Newell (2002–03) · Cooper (2003–05) · Scott (2005–06) · Stephenson (2006) · Wilson (2006–08) · Turner (2008–)
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