Personal information | |||
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Full name | Frank Mobley[1] | ||
Date of birth | [2] | 21 November 1868||
Place of birth | Birmingham,[2] England | ||
Date of death | 9 February 1956[1] | (aged 87)||
Height | 5 ft 8 in (1.73 m)[2] | ||
Position(s) | Centre forward | ||
Senior career* | |||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
Hockley Belmont | |||
Cape Hill | |||
1886–1892 | Singers | ||
1892–1896 | Small Heath | 96 | (62) |
1896–???? | Bury | 3 | (0) |
Gravesend United | |||
1900–1902 | Coventry City | ||
*Club domestic league appearances and goals |
Frank Mobley (21 November 1868 – 9 February 1956) was an English professional footballer who played as a centre forward. He played in the Football League for Small Heath and Bury.[3]
For Small Heath, Mobley scored 64 goals in 103 appearances in all competitions,[2] and was leading scorer in three successive seasons, from 1893–94 – when he was also overall top scorer in the Second Division[4] – to 1895–96.[5] In a 1950 interview, he told the Sports Argus that he "could have got a few more if [he'd] been as selfish as some of the present-day forwards who seem to want to do all the scoring."[6]
The 1939 Register lists Mobley as living in retirement with his son, also named Frank, and his family in the Five Ways district of Birmingham.[7] Mobley died in Birmingham in 1956 at the age of 87.[1][8]
Small Heath