Don Triner

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Don Triner
Personal information
Full name Donald Arthur Triner [1]
Date of birth(1919-08-21)21 August 1919 [1]
Place of birth Sandford Hill, Stoke-on-Trent, England [1]
Date of death 2002 (aged 8283)
Height 5 ft 5 in (1.65 m) [2]
Position(s) Right winger
Youth career
Downing's Tileries
Senior career*
YearsTeamApps(Gls)
1938–1948 Port Vale 25 (7)
1948–1949 Witton Albion
Buxton
1952–1953 Biggleswade Town
Leek Town
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Donald Arthur Triner (21 August 1919 – 2002) was an English footballer who played for Port Vale either side of World War II.

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Career

Triner played for Downing's Tileries before joining Port Vale in December 1938. [1] Before turning professional he was employed as a joiner in Hanley. [3] In only his second game, a 1–0 home win at Bristol Rovers on 7 January 1939, he broke his leg. [1] He managed to make guest appearances for Stafford Rangers from January to April 1940 before returning to guest for the Port Vale "A" team (the first-team were in abeyance due to the war). [1] He was conscripted in 1941 and guested for Morecambe when he was stationed in the area. [1] He was demobbed in the spring of 1946, and with the threat of Nazism vanquished, he returned to The Old Recreation Ground, breaking into the first team by December that year. [1] He scored seven goals in 22 games in 1946–47. [1] However, he once again broke his leg in May 1947, and failed to win back his place upon his recovery. [1] He was released at the end of the 1947–48 season. At that point, he moved on to Witton Albion. He scored six goals in twenty games in the 1948–49 Cheshire County League title-winning season and featured seven times in the 1949–50 campaign. [4] [5] He later played for Buxton, Biggleswade Town (released in May 1953 having "failed to come anywhere near to expectation" [6] [7] ) and Leek Town. [1]

Career statistics

Source: [8] [4] [5]

ClubSeasonDivisionLeague FA Cup OtherTotal
AppsGoalsAppsGoalsAppsGoalsAppsGoals
Port Vale 1938–39 Third Division South 30001040
1946–47 Third Division South2062100227
1947–48 Third Division South21000021
Total2572110288
Witton Albion 1948–49 Cheshire County League 206
1949–50Cheshire County League70
Total276

Honours

Witton Albion

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References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 Kent, Jeff (1996). Port Vale Personalities. Witan Books. p. 292. ISBN   0-9529152-0-0.
  2. Fielding, Rob (12 January 2025). "The 1939-40 Port Vale season preview". onevalefan.co.uk. Retrieved 13 January 2025.
  3. Stoke Sentinel. 9 January 1939 https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/BL/0000525/19390109/161/0008 . Retrieved 30 March 2018 via The British Newspaper Archive.{{cite news}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
  4. 1 2 "1948-49 PLAYERS RECORDS". wittonalbionfc.co.uk. Retrieved 11 February 2022.
  5. 1 2 "1949-50 PLAYERS RECORDS". wittonalbionfc.co.uk. Retrieved 11 February 2022.
  6. "Many Bad Buys". 17 October 1952. Retrieved 30 March 2018 via The British Newspaper Archive.
  7. "The Waders Retain Six Professionals". 1 May 1953. Retrieved 30 March 2018 via The British Newspaper Archive.
  8. Don Triner at the English National Football Archive (subscription required)