Syd Carter, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Syd Carter

association football player

Date of Birth: 28-Jul-1916

Place of Birth: Chesterfield, England, United Kingdom

Date of Death: 15-Sep-1978

Profession: association football player

Zodiac Sign: Leo

Sydney Youles Carter (28 July 1916 – 15 September 1978) was an English footballer who played as a centre forward in the Football League for Mansfield Town.Carter was born in Chesterfield, Derbyshire, in 1916.
He began his football career with Bolsover Colliery, and had spells on the books of Sheffield United and Wolverhampton Wanderers, without playing league football for either, before joining Macclesfield Town in 1937.
In his only season with the club, he scored 40 goals from 39 appearances in the Cheshire League, a return that included 6 in Macclesfield's 8–4 defeat of Hurst.He signed for Mansfield Town of the Football League Third Division North in May 1938, and established himself in the first team over the following season, but his career was disrupted by the Second World War.
By the time the Football League resumed, he was 30.
He returned to Mansfield and made a few more appearances in 1946–47, after which he joined the club's backroom staff, first as assistant trainer and then as trainer in his own right.
Carter died in Mansfield in 1978 at the age of 62.