fullname youthclubs clubs death_date death_place caps birth_place goals height totalcaps position birth_date totalgoals article_title name
hugh mclenahan ambrose longsight a ashton brothers stalybridge celtic ambrose longsight a ashton brothers stalybridge celtic may 1988 -lrb- aged 79 -rrb- macclesfield , cheshire , england 0 0 112 54 west gorton , manchester , england 0 0 11 1 5 ft 10 in m 2 on 166 half back 23 march 1909 12 hugh mclenahan
 hugh mclenahan
hugh mclenahan

hugh `` hughie '' mclenahan -lrb- 23 march 1909 -- may 1988 -rrb- was an english footballer who played at half back for several football league clubs , including stockport county , manchester united and notts county , before his career was halted by the second world war in september 1939 .
born in west gorton , manchester , mclenahan began his football career with various clubs in the manchester area before signing for stockport county as an amateur in february 1927 .
just three months later , he was transferred to manchester united .
having heard that stockport were holding a bazaar to ease their financial difficulties , united 's assistant manager louis rocca , whose family ran a successful ice cream business in the newton heath district of the city , donated a freezer full of ice cream to the event in exchange for stockport releasing mclenahan from his contract .
mclenahan made his manchester united debut on 4 february 1928 , playing at right half in a 4 -- 1 defeat away to tottenham hotspur .
he went on to make a further nine appearances that season , and helped manchester united to narrowly avoid relegation to the second division .
a broken leg meant that he missed the majority of the 1928 -- 29 season , playing just once ; against aston villa on 27 august 1928 .
he returned to first team action on 12 october 1929 , playing at left half in a 5 -- 2 defeat at home to grimsby town .
later in the season , mclenahan went on a scoring spree , scoring six goals in five consecutive games at inside right in april 1930 .
the 1929 -- 30 season would prove to be the highest-scoring season of mclenahan 's manchester united career .
he proved to be a fairly versatile player for united , and although he was not a regular starter , he still managed to make 116 appearances for the club -lrb- 112 in the league and four in the fa cup -rrb- , scoring 12 goals , and even captaining the team on a few occasions .
by the mid-1930s , his appearances in the united first team had become few and far between and the decision was taken to allow mclenahan to move to notts county in december 1937 .
mclenahan played for notts county for almost two seasons , becoming an established name in the notts county team , but his career was halted by the outbreak of the second world war in september 1939 .
by the time the war ended in 1945 , mclenahan was 36 years old , and too old to continue playing football .
he died in macclesfield , cheshire , in may 1988 at the age of 79 .
