Joe McClure
Personal information
Full name Joseph Henry McClure[1]
Date of birth (1907-11-03)3 November 1907
Place of birth Cockermouth, England[2]
Date of death 1973 (aged 65–66)[2]
Place of death Derbyshire, England
Position(s) Wing half
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
Egremont
Workington
1926 Preston North End 0 (0)
Whitehaven Athletic
Preston North End
Leamington Town
Wallsend
1929–1933 Everton 29 (1)
1933–1934 Brentford 1 (0)
1934–1936 Exeter City 5 (0)
1936–1937 Nuneaton Borough (3)
International career
1931 The FA XI 1
Managerial career
1936–1937 Nuneaton Borough (player-manager)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Joseph Henry McClure (3 November 1907 – 1973) was an English footballer who played in the Football League and is remembered for his four years as a wing half with Everton.[1] He later became a manager in non-League football with Nuneaton Borough.

Personal life

McClure grew up in Workington with 10 siblings and his uncle was footballer Alec McClure.[3][4] He had four children with his wife Martha, before he "virtually abandoned" the family in the 1920s when his football career took off and later had four children with another woman.[3] Martha, who refused to divorce him, died in 1968.[3] While with Wallsend, McClure trained to be a welder and worked as a bar steward in later life.[3] McClure's son Peter went on to play football for local Workington non-League club Salterbeck.[3]

Career statistics

Appearances and goals by club, season and competition
Club Season League FA Cup Total
Division Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals
Everton 1929–30[5] First Division 2 0 0 0 2 0
1930–31[5] Second Division 15 1 5 0 20 1
1931–32[5] First Division 7 0 0 0 7 0
1932–33[5] 5 0 0 0 5 0
Total 29 1 5 0 34 1
Brentford 1933–34[6] Second Division 1 0 0 0 1 0
Career total 30 1 5 0 35 1

Honours

Everton

Nuneaton Town

  • Nuneaton Hospital Cup: 1937[4]

References

  1. 1 2 Haynes, Graham; Coumbe, Frank (2006). Timeless Bees: Brentford F.C. Who's Who 1920–2006. Harefield: Yore Publications. p. 103. ISBN 978-0955294914.
  2. 1 2 Joyce, Michael (2012). Football League Players' Records 1888 to 1939. Nottingham: Tony Brown. p. 182. ISBN 978-1905891610.
  3. 1 2 3 4 5 Cram, Phil. "Our forgotten sporting heroes". Times & Star. Retrieved 8 January 2015.
  4. 1 2 "Nuneaton Town 1919–1937 Part 2" (PDF). Nuneaton Town Supporters Co-operative. 2015. pp. 184, 206. Retrieved 10 October 2016.
  5. 1 2 3 4 5 "Joseph Mcclure". Retrieved 8 January 2015.
  6. ↑ White, Eric, ed. (1989). 100 Years Of Brentford. Brentford FC. p. 372. ISBN 0951526200.
  7. ↑ Everton F.C. at the Football Club History Database


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