Les Major

Les Major
Personal information
Full name Leslie Dennis Major
Date of birth (1926-01-25)25 January 1926
Place of birth Yeovil, England
Date of death 2001 (aged 74 or 75)
Place of death Derby, England
Playing position Goalkeeper
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1947–1949 Leicester City 26 (0)
1949–1956 Plymouth Argyle 75 (0)
Total 101 (0)

* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only.


Leslie Dennis Major (25 January 1926 – 2001) was an English footballer who played as a goalkeeper.

He played schoolboy football in Loughborough for Brush Sports, where he was spotted by representatives of Leicester City.[1] He spent two years with the club, making 26 league appearances,[2] before joining Plymouth Argyle on a free transfer as back-up to Welsh international Bill Shortt. He made 23 appearances in his first four seasons with the club, including two in their 1951–52 Third Division South championship winning season.[1] Shortt retired from League football in 1956,[3] and it seemed likely that Major would become the club's first-choice goalkeeper but he was forced to retire from the game that year through injury.[1] He made 78 appearances in all competitions during a seven-year stint with Argyle. He died in Derby in 2001.[4]

Honours

Plymouth Argyle

References

  1. 1 2 3 "Les Major profile". Greens on Screen. Retrieved 15 September 2010.
  2. ↑ "Les Major profile". Neil Brown. Retrieved 15 September 2010.
  3. ↑ "Bill Shortt profile". Greens on Screen. Retrieved 15 September 2010.
  4. ↑ "Births, marriages and deaths". Find My Past. Retrieved 15 September 2010.
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