Alfred Bourne (1894–1939) was an English

footballer A football player or footballer is a sportsperson who plays one of the different types of football. The main types of football are association football, American football, Canadian football, Australian rules football, Gaelic football, rugby le ...

who played as a

goalkeeper In many team sports which involve scoring goals, the goalkeeper (sometimes termed goaltender, netminder, GK, goalie or keeper) is a designated player charged with directly preventing the opposing team from scoring by blocking or intercepting o ...

for

Port Vale Port Vale Football Club are a professional football club based in Burslem, Stoke-on-Trent, England, which compete in . Vale are the only English Football League club not to be named after a place; their name being a reference to the valley o ...

between 1919 and 1922.

Career

Bourne joined

in the summer of 1919. He quickly established himself as the first-choice goalkeeper, however, he lost his place by October 1920. He was a member of the sides that won the Staffordshire Senior Cup and shared the North Staffordshire Infirmary Cup in 1920. He proved himself superior to Jonathan Hammond and played 32

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games in the 1919–20 season. However, he only featured ten times in the league in the 1920–21 campaign, as new signing Walter Smith was preferred. Bourne played 13 matches in the 1921–22 season, as he battled with Smith,

Teddy Peers Edward John Peers (31 December 1886 – 20 September 1935) was a Wales international football goalkeeper. He won 12 caps for Wales and spent 1911 to 1921 at Wolverhampton Wanderers and then January 1922 to May 1923 at Port Vale. Career Peers p ...

and Ernest Blackham for a first-team place. Peers won the battle, and Bourne was released from

The Old Recreation Ground The Old Recreation Ground was a football stadium located in Hanley, Stoke-on-Trent, England, and home to Port Vale F.C. from 1913 to 1950. It was the sixth ground the club used. Structure and facilities The stadium was in rather bad conditio ...

at the end of the season.

Career statistics

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Honours

Port Vale * Staffordshire Senior Cup: 1920

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Bourne, Alfred 1894 births 1939 deaths People from Kidsgrove Footballers from Newcastle-under-Lyme English men's footballers Men's association football goalkeepers Port Vale F.C. players English Football League players