Don Triner

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 82–83)

Playing position Right-winger
Youth career
Downing's Tileries
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1938–1948 Port Vale 25 (7)
Witton Albion
Buxton
Biggleswade Town
Leek Town
Total 25+ (7+)

* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only.


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

Playing career

Triner played for Downing's Tileries before joining Port Vale in December 1938.[1] 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 which point he moved on to Witton Albion, Buxton, Biggleswade Town and Leek Town.[1]

Statistics

Club Season Division League FA Cup Other Total
AppsGoalsAppsGoalsAppsGoalsAppsGoals
Port Vale1938–39Third Division South30001040
1946–47Third Division South2062100227
1947–48Third Division South21000021
Total 2572110288

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.
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