Charlie Nicklas

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Charlie Nicklas
Personal information
Full name Charles Nicklas[1]
Date of birth (1930-04-26)26 April 1930[1]
Place of birth Sunderland, England
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Position(s) Centre forward
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1950 Silksworth Colliery Welfare
1950–1953 Hull City 6 (1)
1953–1954 Darlington 17 (6)
1954–1955 Headington United 13 (4)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Charles "Charlie" Nicklas (born 26 April 1930) is an English former footballer who played as a centre forward in the Football League for Hull City and Darlington. Before joining Hull, Nicklas played non-league football for Silksworth Colliery Welfare, and after leaving Darlington he played in the Southern League for Headington United.[1][3]

Life and career

Nicklas was born in Sunderland, which was then in County Durham.[1] He played as a wing half before what the Sunderland Echo described as a promising career was interrupted by National Service in the Royal Air Force.[2] He began playing for Wearside League club Silksworth Colliery Welfare at the start of the 1950–51 season,[4] but soon went on trial with Football League Second Division club Hull City, and turned professional with that club in December 1950.[5]

He made his first-team debut a year later, on 27 October 1951, playing in the unaccustomed position of centre forward; although he had played a few reserve matches in that position, the Yorkshire Post doubted that "a home match against a team playing as strongly as Rotherham United are just now is the ideal occasion" for a youngster's debut.[6] Rotherham took a three-goal lead, but Hull came back to draw, and Nicklas scored their opener: he "had his faults, but dash, speed and courage were not among them. He harassed [the goalkeeper] into a goal offering and accepted it with glee".[7] He was known for his pace, having competed in professional sprint races.[2] Nicklas played five more matches for Hull, the last of which was on 22 March 1952.[8]

Nicklas stayed with the club until the end of the following season, when he moved on to Darlington of the Third Division North.[1] He scored six goals from seventeen league matches for Darlington,[1] and spent the 1954–55 season with Headington United in the Southern League, scoring four goals from fourteen matches in all competitions.[9]

Nicklas is the nephew of Sunderland and Fulham player Barney Travers.[2]

References

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