Joseph Taylor (1874 – 21 August 1938) was an English professional

association football Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a team sport played between two teams of 11 players who primarily use their feet to propel the ball around a rectangular field called a pitch. The objective of the game is ...

er who played as a centre half. He played for 323 games and scored 12 goals in

the Football League The English Football League (EFL) is a league of professional association football, football clubs from England and Wales. Founded in 1888 as the Football League, the league is the oldest such competition in Association football around the wor ...

for

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, Lancashire, Preston, at the confluence of the River C ...

during the 1890s and 1900s. After his retirement from football, he became a groundsman at Burnley.

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* 1874 births 1938 deaths Footballers from Burnley English men's footballers Men's association football defenders Burnley F.C. players English Football League players {{England-footy-defender-1870s-stub