Peter Docherty

Peter Docherty (14 February 1929 – 1957) was an English footballer who played as an outside forward in the Football League for Darlington.[2]

Not to be confused with Peter Doherty (footballer).

Peter Docherty
Personal information
Full name Peter Docherty[1]
Date of birth (1929-02-14)14 February 1929[1]
Place of birth Hebburn, England
Date of death 1957
Place of death Darlington, England
Position(s) Outside forward
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1949–1950 Fulham 0 (0)
1950–1951 Darlington 3 (1)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Docherty signed for First Division club Fulham in September 1949,[3] but he never represented them in the league, and returned to his native north-east of England and signed for Darlington a year later.[1] Standing in for regular outside left Gordon Galley, Docherty scored on his senior debut, on 7 October 1950 in a 1–1 draw at home to Tranmere Rovers in the Third Division North. He kept his place for the next match, and made his third and final appearance in February 1951.[4]

Docherty was born in 1929 in Hebburn, which was then part of County Durham, and died in Darlington in 1957.[1]

References
  1. "Peter Docherty". Barry Hugman's Footballers. Retrieved 27 March 2023.
  2. "Darlington: 1946/47–1988/89 & 1990/91–2009/10". Post War English & Scottish Football League A–Z Players Database. Neil Brown. Retrieved 24 November 2016.
  3. Phillips, Tom (16 September 2016). "The selectors must wake up—'Shack' IS a team worker". Daily Mirror. London. p. 15. Joining Fulham: two Hebburn-on-Tyne lads, Peter Docherty, outside right or left, and Walter Montgomery, full back. Both are twenty. Both are said to be discoveries. If you can't buy 'em, grow our own, is the policy these days.
  4. Tweddle, Frank (2000). The Definitive Darlington F.C. Nottingham: SoccerData. p. 47. ISBN 978-1-899468-15-7.


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