Henry Pinkerton (7 May 1915 – 1986) was a Scottish

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 ...

Career

Pinkerton played for

Hull City Hull City Association Football Club is a professional Association football, football club based in Kingston upon Hull, Hull, East Riding of Yorkshire, England, that compete in the . They have played home games at the MKM Stadium since moving ...

before joining

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 1935. After just two games he was released at the end of the 1935–36 season, at which point he moved on to

Burnley Burnley () is a town and the administrative centre of the wider Borough of Burnley in Lancashire, England, with a 2001 population of 73,021. It is north of Manchester and east of Preston, at the confluence of the River Calder and River Bru ...

. He made his Burnley debut on 26 September 1936 in the goalless draw with Swansea Town at

Turf Moor Turf Moor is an association football stadium in Burnley, Lancashire, England, which has been the home of Burnley F.C. since 1883. This unbroken service makes Turf Moor the second-longest continuously used ground in English professional football ...

. Pinkerton made two further league appearances for Burnley in the 1937–38 campaign, before leaving to play for

Falkirk Falkirk ( gd, An Eaglais Bhreac, sco, Fawkirk) is a large town in the Central Lowlands of Scotland, historically within the county of Stirlingshire. It lies in the Forth Valley, northwest of Edinburgh and northeast of Glasgow. Falkirk had a ...

and later Bo'ness United. After quitting professional football, he emigrated to Canada to work as a coach.

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London Hearts profile
{{DEFAULTSORT:Pinkerton, Henry Footballers from Glasgow Scottish footballers Scotland wartime international footballers Association football inside forwards Hull City A.F.C. players Port Vale F.C. players Burnley F.C. players Falkirk F.C. players Bo'ness United F.C. players English Football League players Scottish Junior Football Association players Scottish Football League players Association football coaches Scottish emigrants to Canada 1915 births 1986 deaths