Wilf Threlfall
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Wilfred Threlfall (15 October 1906 – 13 February 1988) was an English professional footballer who played in the Football League for Birmingham and Bournemouth & Boscombe Athletic.[1]
Threlfall was born in Morecambe, Lancashire, the son of fishmonger Richard Threlfall and Alice Johnson Threlfall.[2] The Threfall family originated from Lancashire and took their surname from a former manor known as Trelefelt or Threlfield.[3][4] Wilf Threlfall had an uncle of the same name from Morecambe who joined the Rochdale Hornets F.C. as a full back in 1906.[5]
He played for Morecambe F.C. before joining Sunderland, but moved on to fellow First Division club Birmingham in July 1927 without having played for Sunderland's first team,[6] even though he had been highly impressive in training. The Derby Daily Telegraph reported in 1926:
It will be rather surprising if Sunderland overlook the claims of Billy Ellis and George Death for their outside left position, but the prospects are that a newcomer in Wilfred Threlfall will have done duty this afternoon. Wilf is a youngster who did extremely well with the Morecambe club last season, and was signed up by the Roker Park club as a soon as the old campaign ended. His form in trial matches has been startling.[7]
Threlfall made his debut in a 1–0 defeat at Tottenham Hotspur on the opening day of the 1927–28 season, and he and Arthur Johnson shared the outside left position for the next couple of months.[8] In November 1927, Birmingham signed Billy Ellis, the same winger who had kept Threlfall out of the Sunderland team,[6] and both Threlfall and Johnson moved on at the end of the season without playing again.[8] After only three appearances for Bournemouth & Boscombe Athletic in the Third Division South, Threlfall returned home to non-league football with Morecambe and later with Lancaster Town.[1]
He married Margaret H. Cooper in January 1931.[9][10]
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