Ernest Blackham (4 July 1898 – 24 December 1966) was an English

football Football is a family of team sports that involve, to varying degrees, kicking a ball to score a goal. Unqualified, the word ''football'' normally means the form of football that is the most popular where the word is used. Sports commonly c ...

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 ...

who appeared once 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 ...

in May 1921.

Career

Blackham joined

in May 1921 and made his

Second Division In sport, the Second Division, also called Division 2 or Division II is usually the second highest division of a league, and will often have promotion and relegation with divisions above and below. Following the rise of Premier League style compet ...

debut on 6 May 1921, in a 2–0 defeat at

Bradford Park Avenue Bradford (Park Avenue) Association Football Club is an association football club based in Bradford, West Yorkshire, England. The team compete in , at the sixth tier of the English football league system. The name derived from their former hom ...

. This was to be his only appearance however, and he was released at the end of the 1922–23 season, in which rivals

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 ...

played 43 games and Daniel Smith also played once.

Career statistics

Source:

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Blackham, Ernest 1898 births 1966 deaths Footballers from Newcastle-under-Lyme English men's footballers Men's association football goalkeepers Port Vale F.C. players English Football League players