David Black was a
footballer
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who played at
centre-forward.
Career
Black played for
Blackburn Rovers before joining
Burslem 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 of ...
in October 1895.
On 19 October, he made his debut in a heavy 8–2 defeat to
Darwen.
He scored his first goal for the club two days later, in a 5–4 victory over
Liverpool at the
Athletic Ground.
However, after seven
Second Division and two
FA Cup appearances the club declared him to be "a too heavy" and so he left by mutual consent in January 1896 and headed for Scotland.
Career statistics
Source:
References
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Year of birth missing
Year of death missing
English men's footballers
Men's association football forwards
Blackburn Rovers F.C. players
Port Vale F.C. players
English Football League players
Place of birth missing