fullname years death_date death_place clubs birth_place caps goals totalcaps position birth_date totalgoals article_title name
leslie dennis major 1947 -- 1949 1949 -- 1956 2001 -lrb- aged 74 or 75 -rrb- derby , england leicester city plymouth argyle yeovil , england 26 75 0 0 101 goalkeeper 25 january 1926 0 les major
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leslie dennis major -lrb- 25 january 1926 -- 2001 -rrb- was an english footballer who played as a goalkeeper .
he played schoolboy football in loughborough for brush sports , where he was spotted by representatives of leicester city .
he spent two years with the club , making 26 league appearances , before joining plymouth argyle on a free transfer as back-up to welsh international bill shortt .
he made 23 appearances in his first four seasons with the club , including two in their 1951 -- 52 third division south championship winning season .
shortt retired from league football in 1956 , and it seemed likely that major would become the club 's first-choice goalkeeper but he was forced to retire from the game that year through injury .
he made 78 appearances in all competitions during a seven-year stint with argyle .
he died in derby in 2001 .
