fullname years death_date death_place clubs birth_place caps goals height position birth_date article_title name
frederick walter laycock 1921 1924 -- 1925 1925 -- 1926 1926 -- 1927 1927 -- -- 1928 1928 -- 1929 1929 -- 1930 1930 -- 1922 1931 1931 -- 1933 1933 -- 1934 1934 -- 1935 1922 1935 -- 1936 1936 -- 1937 1937 -- 1923 1923 -- 1924 19 september 1989 sheffield , england shirebrook new brighton peterborough & fletton united darlington york city swindon rotherham town derry city witton albion nuneaton town cannock town hereford town united sheffield wednesday barrow nelson mansfield town sheffield , england ? 27 16 ? ? ? ? ? ? 0 31 23 ? 28 ? 35 ? 12 2 ? ? ? ? ? ? 0 10 12 ? 14 ? 14 5 9 inside forward 31 march 1897 fred laycock
 fred laycock
fred laycock

frederick walter laycock -lrb- 31 march 1897 -- 19 september 1989 -rrb- was an english professional footballer who played as an inside forward .
he was born in sheffield .
he began his career in local football with st mary 's and shirebrook .
after a spell in the midland league with rotherham town , laycock signed as a professional with sheffield wednesday in march 1923 .
however , he failed to make a first-team appearance for the club and moved on a free transfer to football league third division north side barrow the following year .
at holker street , laycock scored 10 goals in 31 league matches .
said to be an outstanding header of the football , his form for barrow attracted other clubs to his signature .
at the match against rotherham county on 16 march 1925 , the final day for transfers in the 1924 -- 25 season , several clubs sent representatives to sign the player .
while the game was in progress , laycock was called from the field of play to sign for third division north rivals nelson , before completing the rest of the match for barrow .
both laycock and nelson were later fined over the incident , laycock receiving his punishment for illegally representing barrow while contracted to a different club .
laycock made his nelson debut four days later in the 2 -- 0 win against hartlepools united at seedhill .
he scored his first goal for the club the following week in the 1 -- 0 victory away at rochdale , the team 's third consecutive win .
however , nelson 's form then faltered as they took just one point from the next three games .
laycock netted twice in the 7 -- 0 defeat of crewe alexandra on 13 april 1925 , the biggest winning margin nelson ever achieved in the football league .
later in the month , he scored four goals in two matches against wrexham and southport .
laycock continued his goalscoring form into the following season , but was then dropped to the reserve team .
he scored 18 goals in the lancashire combination as the nelson reserves won the league for the first time .
laycock returned to the first-team in april 1926 and scored three goals in the last five matches of the 1925 -- 26 campaign , including two in the 3 -- 3 draw with chesterfield .
in the summer of 1926 laycock moved into non-league football with mansfield town , where he spent one season before returning to the third division north with new brighton .
he had a record of a goal every other game for the wallasey-based club , ending the 1927 -- 28 season with 14 goals in 28 appearances .
laycock switched club again in september 1928 , joining southern football league club peterborough & fletton united on a free transfer .
another move to darlington in the summer of 1929 meant a third spell in the football league for laycock .
his record of 14 goals in 35 matches helped darlington to a third-placed finish in the league , but laycock was released at the end of the season and signed for york city .
during a single season with the fulfordgate club , he netted 12 times in 27 league appearances .
laycock moved to third division south outfit swindon town in may 1931 , his 11th new club in as many years .
he made his debut for them in the 3 -- 2 defeat against his former club mansfield town on 29 august 1931 , and scored his first goal for the side in the following fixture , a 4 -- 1 victory over watford at the county ground .
despite playing regularly for the first three months of the season , he was used only sparingly in the latter stages of the campaign .
laycock scored his second and last swindon goal on the final football league appearance of his career , in the 4 -- 0 win against gillingham on 9 april 1932 .
after leaving swindon in july 1933 , he had a spell in northern ireland with derry city before returning to the english non-league game with witton albion in october 1934 .
laycock subsequently assisted several non-league sides , including nuneaton town and cannock town .
he had trial periods with northwich victoria and shrewsbury town in 1936 , and joined his final club , hereford united , in january 1937 .
laycock returned to sheffield at the end of his playing career and died in the city on 19 september 1989 , at the age of 92 .
