Albert Worthy

Background

Worthy was born in Pilsley, Derbyshire, and played football for Danesmoor before joining Chesterfield.

Career

He played as a right back. He played seven league games during the 1926-1927 season before moving on to Third Division North rivals Lincoln City. He scored his first Football League goal from a free kick in a 5–0 defeat of Barrow in October 1928.

Worthy was not a regular first choice in the Second Division, and left the club for Southend United of the Third Division South in the 1933 close season.

After one season in which he played 30 games in all competitions, he returned to the Northern Section for three years with Rochdale, after which he played non-league football for Gainsborough Trinity and Shrewsbury Town. Worthy died in Lower Pilsley, Derbyshire, in 1978 at the age of 72.

Achievements

• He rarely missed a match in his first five seasons with the club, at the end of which they won the Third Division North title and consequent promotion.