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Richard "Dick" Healey (20 September 1889 – 1974) was an English footballer who played as an inside right or centre forward in the Football League for Sunderland, Middlesbrough and Darlington. Healey began his football career as an amateur in his native Darlington. He helped Bishop Auckland win two Northern League titles and to reach the 1911 Amateur Cup Final, and also played non-league football for Stockton. He signed amateur forms with Football League club Sunderland in 1910, for whom he played three times and scored twice in the First Division. He won four caps for the England amateur team. Returning to Darlington F.C. in 1912, Healey was the club's top scorer as they won the 1912–13 North-Eastern League title, and was a member of the Amateur XI that opposed a team of professionals in the 1913 FA Charity Shield. In 1914, he turned professional with Middlesbrough, but played only four times, scoring twice. After the First World War, he returned to Darlington. As captain, he led them to the North-Eastern League title in 1921, and made 17 appearances in the Third Division North in the club's first two seasons in to the Football League. As a cricketer, he played a few matches for Durham in the Minor Counties Championship, and had a long association with Darlington Cricket Club, as player, captain and president. ==Personal life== Healey was born in Darlington,〔 County Durham, the older child of Albert Healey and his wife Elizabeth née Jackson, daughter of a Stockton-on-Tees draper. The family was sufficiently well off to keep a live-in servant. Albert taught at the Bluecoat School in Stockton before moving to Darlington where he opened a hardware shop, and later worked for the National Telephone Company; he died in February 1899.〔 Elizabeth remarried; at the time of the 1911 Census, Healey and his sister Winifred were assisting in their stepfather's business as licensee of the Three Tuns Hotel in Bishop Auckland.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=1911 England, Wales & Scotland Census Image ) and 〕 Healey attended Darlington Grammar School, where he captained both the cricket and the football teams, and went on to Armstrong College, Newcastle, to train as a teacher. He taught for the rest of his working life, and retired in about 1950 from the post of headmaster of Rise Carr school.〔 During the First World War, he served as a gunner with the 151st (Darlington) Heavy Battery, Royal Garrison Artillery.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Memorial details. ROH 1914–18 Library. Ref. D40.067 Names a to j. Place. Darlington )〕 He married Florence Bradley, the daughter of a local florist, in a Bishop Auckland Presbyterian church in 1914; a daughter, Winifred, was born the following year. Healey died in Darlington in late 1974.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Dick Healey (footballer)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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