Alexander Finney (13 March 1902 – 1982) was an English

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player best known for playing for

Bolton Wanderers Bolton Wanderers Football Club () is a professional football club based in Horwich, Bolton, Greater Manchester, England, which competes in . The club played at Burnden Park for 102 years from 1895 after moving from their original home at Pike's ...

, for whom he made nearly 500 appearances in The Football League. He played for the team in the

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and

1929 This year marked the end of a period known in American history as the Roaring Twenties after the Wall Street Crash of 1929 ushered in a worldwide Great Depression. In the Americas, an agreement was brokered to end the Cristero War, a Catholic ...

FA Cup Finals.

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1902 births 1982 deaths Men's association football fullbacks Bolton Wanderers F.C. players Darwen F.C. players English Football League players English Football League representative players English men's footballers Footballers from St Helens, Merseyside New Brighton A.F.C. players South Liverpool F.C. players {{england-footy-defender-1900s-stub