George Atkinson (
fl.
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1904–1905) was an English professional
footballer
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who played as a winger.
Atkinson joined
Football League Second Division club
Burnley in the summer of 1904 and made his debut for the club in the first match of the 1904–05 season, a 1–4 defeat to
West Bromwich Albion on 3 September 1904. He appeared in all of the team's first 14 games of the campaign, with his final match coming on 19 November 1904 against
Glossop
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. Atkinson then failed to report for the following fixture away at
Chesterfield
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, leaving the team to play with only 10 men. He was never again selected for Burnley and left the club in 1905.
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19th-century births
20th-century deaths
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