Henry Cockburn

Manchester United FC

13 appearances, 0 goals

P 13 W 9 D 2 L 2 F 40: A 15
77% successful
1946-51

captain: none
minutes played: 1170

Timeline

Source

Douglas Lammings' An English Football Internationalist Who's Who [1990] &

Club Career

"Cockburn, a natural all-round sportsman who also excelled at cricket, made his first footballing impact as a teenager with Goslings, a local feeder to Manchester United, the Old Trafford club enlisting him as an amateur in September 1943. While continuing with his work as a mill- fitter, he impressed the Reds' coaching staff enough to earn a professional contract a year later and he made his first United appearance as a nippy, elusive forward during unofficial wartime competition, in which he had guested also for Accrington Stanley."

Then, unlike Neil Franklin, and many more of his peers, Cockburn turned down a move to Independiente Santa Fe of Bogota on 13 July 1950, who were offering him £5090 per year. Cockburn made 243 First Division appearances, in which he scored four goals.

Still hardly a gnarled veteran at the age of 30, Cockburn was not content with life in United's reserves and on 18 October 1954 he accepted a £3000 transfer to Second Division Bury, where he linked up once more with the former Red Devil Stan Pearson, the deliciously gifted inside-forward behind whom he had performed so superbly for so long. At Gigg Lane he added 39 League and FA Cup appearances to the 275 he had accumulated at Old Trafford, then switched to Peterborough United, at the time plying their trade in the Midland League, in the summer of 1956.

he made a final 39 league appearances, scoring once, before moving on to non-league Corby Town FC in July 1959 and then played alongside Franklin once more, at Sankey's FC of Wellington, for six months towards the end of 1960;

Source

Douglas Lammings' An English Football Internationalist Who's Who [1990].

England Career

Beyond England