Harry Tufnell

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Harry Tufnell
Personal information
Full name	Harry Tufnell
Date of birth	22/11/1886
Place of birth	Burton upon Trent, England
Date of death	Dec 1959
Place of death	Oldham, England
Playing position	Inside Forward
Senior career1
Years	Club	App (Gls)*
??-1909 1909-??	Bury Barnsley	00? (?) 00? (?)
Teams managed
?-? 1921-1922	Wakefield Doncaster Rovers
1 Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. * Appearances (Goals)

Harry Tufnell (1886 – 1959) was an English professional footballer He played for Bury and Barnsley prior to the First World war as an Inside Forward. Following the end of his playing career he managed and coached several clubs in the North of England.

Contents 1 Club career 2 Coaching career 3 Life Outside Football 4 Honours 5 References 6 External Sources

[edit] Club career

Harry Tufnell joined Barnsley from Bury at the beginning of the 1909-10 season. ^[1] He was part of the Barnsley side that contested both the 1910 and the 1912 FA Cup Finals. He scored in both finals.^{[2] [3]} In 1910, he scored the only Barnsley goal, putting the ball in off the post from a Bartrop cross. ^[4] The game ended a 1-1 draw. Barnsley then lost the replay 2-0. In 1912 the first match ended in nil-nil draw and the replay looked to be going the same way when Tufnell scored in the last few minutes of extra time after a solo run from the half way line.^[5]

[edit] Coaching career

When he retired from playing he stayed in the game, coaching first, Wakefield then Doncaster Rovers and finally Oldham Athletic

[edit] Life Outside Football

Prior to starting his career in football he worked as greengrocers assistant^[6] and in the later part of his life he worked in a cotton mill.^[7]

[edit] Honours

Barnsley

• FA Cup: Winners 1912
• FA Cup: Runners Up 1910

[edit] References

[edit] External Sources

• Short biography of Harry Tufnell

v • d • e Doncaster Rovers F.C. – Managers Porter (1920–21) · Tufnell (1921–22) · Porter (1922–23) · Ray (1923–27) · Menzies (1928–36) · Emery (1936–40) · Marsden (1944–46) · Bestall (1946–49) · Doherty (1949–58) · Bycroft (1958) · Hodgson (1958) · Crayston (1958–59) · Bestall (1959–60) · Curtis (1960–61) · Malloy (1961–62) · Hold (1962–64) · Leivers (1964–66) · Kettleborough (1966–67) · Raynor (1967–68) · McMenemy (1968–71) · Setters (1971–74) · Anderson (1975–78) · Bremner (1978–85) · Cusack (1985–87) · Mackay (1987–89) · Bremner (1989–91) · Beaglehole (1991–93) · I. Atkins (1993–94) · Chung (1994–96) · Dixon (1996–97) · Weaver (1997) · Cowling (1997) · Bergara (1997) · Weaver (1997–98) · Snodin (1998–00) · M. Atkins (2000) · Penney (player) (2000) · Wignall (2000–01) · Penney (player) (2001–02) · Penney (2002–06) · Walker (2006) · O'Driscoll (2006–)

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