Joe Mercer (footballer, born 1889)
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Personal information | |||
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Full name | Joseph Powell Mercer[1] | ||
Date of birth | 21 July 1889[2] | ||
Place of birth | Higher Bebington, England[2] | ||
Date of death | 1927 (aged 36–37)[2] | ||
Height | Script error: No such module "person height". | ||
Position(s) | Centre half | ||
Youth career | |||
Burnell's Ironworks | |||
Senior career* | |||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
Ellesmere Port | |||
1910–1914 | Nottingham Forest | 149 | (6) |
Ellesmere Port | |||
1921–1922 | Tranmere Rovers | 15 | (1) |
*Club domestic league appearances and goals |
Joseph Powell "Joe" Mercer (21 July 1889–1927) was an English professional football centre half who played in the Football League for Nottingham Forest and Tranmere Rovers.[1] He was the father of footballer and manager Joe Mercer.[2]
Personal life
Mercer worked as a bricklayer before and during his professional football career.[2] He married Ethel Breeze in June 1913 and had four children, the oldest being future footballer and manager Joe Mercer.[2] On 16 December 1914, four months into the First World War, Mercer enlisted the 17th (Service) Battalion of the Duke of Cambridge's Own (Middlesex Regiment) and was posted to the front on 17 October 1915.[2] At the front, he was promoted to sergeant,[3] sustained wounds in the head, leg and shoulder and was captured by the Germans in Oppy on 28 April 1917.[2][4] He was held in camps at Douai, Bad Langensalza, Giessen and Meschede and returned home in January 1919.[2] In the post-war years, Mercer attempted to resume his football career and worked as a bricklayer before dying in in 1927 of health problems caused by gas inhalation in the trenches a decade earlier.[2][5]
References
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