Ray Price (footballer)
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Raymond Price[1] | ||
| Date of birth | 18 May 1944[1] | ||
| Place of birth | Hetton-le-Hole, England[1] | ||
| Date of death | 18 November 1990 (aged 46)[1] | ||
| Place of death | Grimsby, England[2] | ||
| Height | 5 ft 10.5 in (1.79 m)[2] | ||
| Playing position | Full-back | ||
| Youth career | |||
| Norwich City | |||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 1963–1964 | Norwich City | 1 | (0) |
| 1964–1967 | Colchester United | 17 | (0) |
| Chelmsford City | |||
| Total | 18 | (0) | |
|
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. | |||
Raymond "Ray" Price (18 May 1944 – 18 November 1990) was an English footballer who played in the Football League as a full-back for Norwich City and Colchester United.
Career
Born in Hetton-le-Hole, Price began his career as a junior at Norwich City where he made one Football League appearance on 29 February 1964 in a 2–1 away defeat to Derby County,[3] replacing regular left-back Joe Mullett who was suffering from tonsillitis.[2]
Price moved to Colchester United in the summer of 1964.[2] After making his debut on 6 February 1965 in a 3–1 defeat to Oldham Athletic at Boundary Park,[4] he failed to establish himself in the first-team, with his most notable contribution being the first-ever substitute used by the U's when he came on for Ted Phillips in a 2–0 home win over Rochdale on 19 September 1965.[2] He made 17 appearances for the club,[5] with his final game a 0–0 draw with Gillingham on 11 March 1967.[6]
Released in the summer of 1967, Price joined Chelmsford City before returning to Norwich to set up a successful badminton club. He then relocated to Lincolnshire where he was working as an insurance salesman when he suffered a fatal heart attack at the age of 46.[2]
References
- 1 2 3 4 "Colchester United – Player profile". Coludata.co.uk. Retrieved 29 May 2013.
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 Whitehead, Jeff; Drury, Kevin (2008). The Who's Who of Colchester United: The Layer Road Years. Derby: Breedon Books. pp. 194, 195. ISBN 978-1-85983-629-3.
- ↑ "SING UP THE RIVER END!: Debutants 1964". Sing Up The River End!. Retrieved 29 May 2013.
- ↑ "Colchester United – Match details – Oldham Athletic 3–1 Colchester Utd". Coludata.co.uk. Retrieved 29 May 2013.
- ↑ "RAY PRICE". Post War English & Scottish Football League A – Z Player's Database. Retrieved 29 May 2013.
- ↑ "Colchester United – Match details – Colchester Utd 0–0 Gillingham". Coludata.co.uk. Retrieved 29 May 2013.