Harry Storer, Jr.

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Harry Storer
Personal information
Date of birth	2 February 1898(1898-02-02)
Place of birth	West Derby, Liverpool, England
Date of death	1 September 1967 (aged 69)
Place of death	California, Derby, England
Playing position	Inside left / Left half
Youth career
1918–1919	Ripley Town Eastwood Town Notts County
Senior career1
Years	Club	App (Gls)*
1919–1921 1921–1928 1929–1931	Grimsby Town Derby County Burnley	064 (18) 257 (60) 052 0(5)
National team
1924–1927	England	002 0(1)
Teams managed
1931–1945 1945–1948 1948–1953 1955–1963	Coventry City Birmingham City Coventry City Derby County
1 Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. * Appearances (Goals)

Harry Storer

Personal information
Batting style	Right-handed
Bowling style	Leg-break
Role	occasional wicket-keeper
Career statistics
Competition	FC
Matches	302
Runs scored	13,513
Batting average	27.63
100s/50s	18/73
Top score	232
Balls bowled	16,416
Wickets	232
Bowling average	32.43
5 wickets in innings	9
10 wickets in match	0
Best bowling	7/26
Catches/stumpings	214/1
Source: CricketArchive, 26 March 2009

Harry Storer (2 February 1898 – 1 September 1967) was an English professional footballer, cricketer and football manager.

Contents 1 Football career 1.1 Club career 1.2 International career 2 Football management 3 Cricket career 4 See also 5 References 6 External links

[edit] Football career

[edit] Club career

Storer was born in West Derby, Liverpool. He came from a sporting family; his father Harry Storer, Sr. was a goalkeeper for Arsenal and Liverpool and played cricket for Derbyshire, and his uncle Bill Storer played football for Derby County and cricket for Derbyshire and England. After leaving Heanor Secondary School, Storer played for several clubs in the Derbyshire and Nottinghamshire area, including playing as an amateur for Notts County.^[1]

He had trials at Millwall, but signed his first professional contract with Grimsby Town of the Third Division (North) in February 1919, a few months before the Football League resumed after the First World War.^[1] He played as a inside left or left half for Grimsby Town, Derby County, for whom he made more than 250 appearances, and Burnley.^[2]

[edit] International career

He also won two caps for England. His debut was in 1924 in a friendly match against France in Paris; Storer, playing at inside left, scored the third goal in a 3–1 win.^[3] His only other appearance for England came in the British Home Championship in 1927 against Ireland in Belfast; he played at left half in a 2–0 defeat, England playing the second half with nine men after goalkeeper Ted Hufton broke his arm and captain Jack Hill sustained a leg injury.^[4]

[edit] Football management

Storer became manager of Coventry City in June 1931, guiding them to the Third Division (South) title in 1935–36. He left in June 1945 to manage Birmingham City, leading them to the Second Division title in 1947–48. Storer resigned as Birmingham manager in November 1948 to return for a second spell at Coventry which lasted until December 1953. He took over as manager of Derby County in June 1955, leading The Rams to the Third Division (North) title in 1956–57.^[1]

[edit] Cricket career

As a cricketer, Storer represented Derbyshire from 1920 to 1936. A right-handed batsman, leg spin bowler and occasional wicket-keeper, he played in more than 300 first-class matches, all of which were for Derbyshire.^[5] In his last season, he helped Derbyshire to what as of 2009 is still their only County Championship.

His most productive summer with the bat was 1929, in which he scored 1,652 first-class runs at 36.71, including four hundreds and seven fifties.^[6] In that year against Essex at Derby, he (making 209) and Joseph Bowden (120) put on 322 for the first wicket.^[7] As of 2009, this remains the record first-wicket stand for Derbyshire.^[8] However, his career-best innings of 232 came in 1933, also versus Essex at Derby.^[9]

As a bowler, Storer's best innings figures were 7/26 (including a hat-trick) against Northamptonshire at Chesterfield in 1922.^[10][11]

[edit] See also

• List of English cricket and football players

[edit] References

[edit] External links

• Harry Storer England profile at Englandstats
• Player Profile: Harry Storer, Jr. from Cricinfo
• Harry Storer, Jr. at Cricket Archive
• Harry Storer, Jr. management career stats at Soccerbase

v • d • e Coventry City F.C. – Managers Stanley (1883–85s) · Hathaway (1885–87s) · Morgan (1887–92s) · Kirk (1893–s) · Maley (1893–s) · Collins (1893–95s) · Cashmore (1895–1900s) · Newhall (1900–02s) · O'Shea (1902–05s) · Beaman (1905–08s) · Harris (1908–09s) · Buckle (1909–10) · Wallace (1910–13) · Scott-Walford (1913–15) · Howard (1915–17c) · Clayton (1919–19) · Pollitt (1919–20) · Evans (1920–24) · Harbourne (1924c) · Kerr (1924–28) · McIntyre (1928–31) · Slade (1931c) · Storer (1931–45) · Bayliss (1945–47) · Frith (1947–48) · Storer (1948–53) · Fairbrother (1953–54) · Elliott (1954–55c) · Carver (1955–56) · Raynor (1956) · Warren (1956–57) · Frith (1957–61) · Hill (1961–67) · Cantwell (1967–72) · Dennison (1972c) · Mercer (1972–74) · Milne (1974–81) · Sexton (1981–83) · Gould (1983–84) · Mackay (1984–86) · Curtis (1986–87) · Sillett (1987–90) · Butcher (1990–92) · Howe (1992c) · Gould (1992–93) · Neal (1993–95) · Atkinson (1995–96) · Strachan (1996–01) · Nilsson (2001–02) · Peake (2002c) · McAllister (2002–03) · Black (2003–04) · Ogrizovic (2004c) · Reid (2004–05) · Heath (2005c) · Adams (2005–07) · Heath (2007c) · Dowie (2007–08) · Harbin & Bunn (2008c) · Coleman (2008–) (s) secretary (c) caretaker

v • d • e Birmingham City F.C. – Managers Jones (1892–1908) · Watson (1908–10) · McRoberts (1910–15) · Richards (1915–23) · Beer (1923–27) · Harvey (1927–28) · Knighton (1928–33) · Liddell (1933–39) · Camkin (1939–44) · Goodier (1944–45) · Storer (1945–49) · Brocklebank (1949–54) · Turner (1954–58) · Turner and Beasley (1958) · Beasley (1958–60) · Merrick (1960–64) · Mallett (1964–65) · Cullis (1965–70) · Goodwin (1970–75) · Bell (1975–77) · Ramsey (1977–78) · Smith (1978–82) · Saunders (1982–86) · Bond (1986–87) · Pendrey (1987–89) · Mackay (1989–91) · Macari (1991) · Cooper (1991–93) · Fry (1993–96) · Francis (1996–2001) · Bruce (2001–07) · McLeish (2007–)

v • d • e Derby County F.C. – Managers Newbould (1896–1906) · Methven (1906–22) · Potter (1922–25) · Jobey (1925–41) · Magner (1944–46) · McMillan (1946–53) · Barker (1953–55) · Storer, Jr. (1955–62) · Ward (1962–67) · B. Clough (1967–73) · Mackay (1973–76) · Murphy (1976–77) · Docherty (1977–79) · Addison (1979–82) · Newman (1982) · Taylor (1982–84) · McFarland (1984) · Cox (1984–93) · McFarland (1993–95) · Smith (1995–2001) · Todd (2001–02) · Gregory (2002–03) · Burley (2003–05) · Brown (2005–06) · Westley (2006) · Davies (2006–07) · Jewell (2007–08) · N. Clough (2009–)

Persondata
NAME	Storer, Harry
ALTERNATIVE NAMES
SHORT DESCRIPTION	Professional footballer, cricketer, football manager
DATE OF BIRTH	1898-02-02
PLACE OF BIRTH	West Derby, Liverpool, England
DATE OF DEATH	1967-09-01
PLACE OF DEATH	Derby, Derbyshire, England