Donald Arthur Triner (21 August 1919 – 2002) was an English footballer who played for Port Vale either side of World War II.
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Donald Arthur Triner[1] | ||
| Date of birth | 21 August 1919[1] | ||
| Place of birth | Sandford Hill, Stoke-on-Trent, England[1] | ||
| Date of death | 2002 (aged 82–83) | ||
| Position(s) | Right winger | ||
| Youth career | |||
| Downing's Tileries | |||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 1938–1948 | Port Vale | 25 | (7) |
| 1948–1949 | Witton Albion | ||
| Buxton | |||
| 1952–1953 | Biggleswade Town | ||
| Leek Town | |||
| *Club domestic league appearances and goals | |||
Career edit
Triner played for Downing's Tileries before joining Port Vale in December 1938.[1] Before turning professional he was employed as a joiner in Hanley.[2] In only his second game, a 1–0 home win at Bristol Rovers on 7 January 1939, he broke his leg.[1] He managed to make guest appearances for Stafford Rangers from January to April 1940 before returning to guest for the Port Vale "A" team (the first-team were in abeyance due to the war).[1] He was conscripted in 1941 and guested for Morecambe when he was stationed in the area.[1] He was demobbed in the spring of 1946 and with the threat of Nazism vanquished he returned to The Old Recreation Ground, breaking into the first-team by December that year.[1] He scored seven goals in 22 games in 1946–47.[1] However, he once again broke his leg in May 1947, and failed to win back his place upon his recovery.[1] He was released at the end of the 1947–48 season, at which point he moved on to Witton Albion. He scored six goals in twenty games in the 1948–49 Cheshire County League title-winning season and featured seven times in the 1949–50 campaign.[3][4] He later played for Buxton, Biggleswade Town (released in May 1953 having "failed to come anywhere near to expectation"[5][6]) and Leek Town.[1]
Career statistics edit
| Club | Season | Division | League | FA Cup | Other | Total | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | |||
| Port Vale | 1938–39 | Third Division South | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 0 |
| 1946–47 | Third Division South | 20 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 22 | 7 | |
| 1947–48 | Third Division South | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | |
| Total | 25 | 7 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 28 | 8 | ||
| Witton Albion | 1948–49 | Cheshire County League | 20 | 6 | ||||||
| 1949–50 | Cheshire County League | 7 | 0 | |||||||
| Total | 27 | 6 | ||||||||
Honours edit
Witton Albion
- Cheshire County League: 1948–49
References edit
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k Kent, Jeff (1996). Port Vale Personalities. Witan Books. p. 292. ISBN 0-9529152-0-0.
- ^ Stoke Sentinel. 9 January 1939 https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/BL/0000525/19390109/161/0008. Retrieved 30 March 2018 – via The British Newspaper Archive.
{{cite news}}: Missing or empty|title=(help) - ^ a b "1948-49 PLAYERS RECORDS". wittonalbionfc.co.uk. Retrieved 11 February 2022.
- ^ a b "1949-50 PLAYERS RECORDS". wittonalbionfc.co.uk. Retrieved 11 February 2022.
- ^ "Many Bad Buys". 17 October 1952. Retrieved 30 March 2018 – via The British Newspaper Archive.
- ^ "The Waders Retain Six Professionals". 1 May 1953. Retrieved 30 March 2018 – via The British Newspaper Archive.
- ^ Don Triner at the English National Football Archive (subscription required)