Dick Healey (footballer)

Dick Healey
Photo card, numbered 1208 and captioned R. Healey, showing head and shoulders of a slightly balding man wearing a hooped shirt
Pictured in the 1920s
Personal information
Full name Richard Healey[1]
Date of birth (1889-09-20)20 September 1889[2][3]
Place of birth Darlington,[1] England
Date of death 1974 (aged 84–85)[2]
Place of death Darlington,[2] England
Height 5 ft 10+1⁄2 in (1.79 m)[4]
Position(s) Inside right, centre forward
Youth career
– Darlington
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
190?–1910 Bishop Auckland
1910–1914 Sunderland 3 (2)
1910 Stockton
1910–1912 Bishop Auckland
1912–1914 Darlington
1914–1915 Middlesbrough 4 (2)
1915–1923 Darlington[a] 21 (5)
International career
1911–1912 England amateur 4 (4)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Richard Healey (20 September 1889 – 1974) was an English footballer who played as an inside right or centre forward in the Football League for Sunderland, Middlesbrough and Darlington.[1]

Healey began his football career as an amateur in his native Darlington. He helped Bishop Auckland win two Northern League titles and to reach the 1911 Amateur Cup Final, and also played non-league football for Stockton. He signed amateur forms with Football League club Sunderland in 1910, for whom he played three times and scored twice in the First Division. He won four caps for the England amateur team. Returning to Darlington F.C. in 1912, Healey was the club's top scorer as they won the 1912–13 North-Eastern League title, and was a member of the Amateur XI that opposed a team of professionals in the 1913 FA Charity Shield. In 1914, he turned professional with Middlesbrough, but played only four times, scoring twice. After the First World War, he returned to Darlington. He captained the team to the North-Eastern League title in 1921 and made 17 appearances in the Third Division North in the club's first two seasons in the Football League.

As a cricketer, he played a few matches for Durham in the Minor Counties Championship, and had a long association with Darlington Cricket Club, as player, captain and president.[3]

  1. ^ a b c Joyce, Michael (2004). Football League Players' Records 1888 to 1939. Nottingham: SoccerData. p. 120. ISBN 978-1-899468-67-6.
  2. ^ a b c Cite error: The named reference deathcert was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  3. ^ a b Dobson, Tim. "Richard "Dick" Healey" (PDF). Feethams Flyer. No. 26. Darlington Cricket Club. p. 3. Retrieved 13 January 2015.
  4. ^ "Third Division. Northern Section. Darlington". Athletic News. Manchester. 15 August 1921. p. 6.


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