fullname youthclubs clubs youthyears caps goals birth_place height totalcaps position birth_date totalgoals article_title name
richard h. holden parkfield central tonge manchester united parkfield central 1903 -- 1904 106 0 middleton , lancashire , england 5 10 106 full back 12 june 1885 0 dick holden
 dick holden
dick holden

richard h. `` dick '' holden -lrb- born 12 june 1885 in middleton , lancashire -rrb- was an english footballer who played at right-back .
he started playing football at parkfield central as a forward .
he then joined tonge , where he started playing as a full back .
in may 1904 , holden joined manchester united , and spent most of his first season at united in the reserves .
in the season 1905-06 , an injury to bob bonthron allowed holden to play for the first-team .
in 1908 , he suffered a knee injury , and had to go for an operation .
after 117 appearances for the club and no goals , he left united in may 1914 and joined the royal air force , serving in the first world war that began three months later .
when the war ended in november 1918 , holden did not resume his career as a footballer .
