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and Cup goalscorer that season. He was surpassed as
Folkestone's leading scorer over the following 1952–53 campaign (in which he scored 26 league and cup goals of which were 19 were league strikes), and part-way through the next season, having lost his regular first team spot with Folkestone, in February 1954 Day signed with fellow Kent League club
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Division South. Early during the next season in August and
September 1949 he made four consecutive appearances (in one of which he scored his only Watford goal against his former club Ipswich Town), but did not appear again for the first team for the remainder of the season and was transferred out in the summer of 1950.
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champions in both the 1950–51 and 1952–53 seasons, and in the intervening season won the Kent League Cup. Day was
Folkestone's leading scorer in his first two seasons, notching 33 Kent League and Cup goals in 1950–1951 and 42 the following season – the latter total made him the joint-top Kent League
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with 14 goals from his 25 appearances. He played in the majority of the club's league matches the following season, but in the 1948–49 campaign he featured in only three matches and was made available as a free transfer at the season's end. During the summer Day signed for
Watford, also of the Third
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Ipswich Town – for the latter club during the 1945–46 wartime season he played in 21 matches scoring 15 goals. Thereafter football returned to its pre-war competitive format and in the summer of 1946 Day signed for Ipswich Town who resumed playing in the Third Division South. In the ensuing
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382:. He played 6 league matches for them over the remainder of the 1953–54 season and stayed with them until the end of the following 1954–55 campaign although he played mainly in their Kent League Division II reserves team (scoring 23 goals). Thereafter he had a brief spell with
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500:. Haywards Heath. 5 April 1938. p. 9.
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664:. Ashford. 12 February 1954. p. 4.
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574:. Coventry. 7 June 1946. p. 8.
470:. Worthing. 6 May 1936. p. 11.
704:. Ashford. 13 May 1955. p. 4.
634:. Ashford. 16 May 1952. p. 3.
604:. Dover. 4 August 1950. p. 9.
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547:. Pride of Anglia. Archived from
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792:English Football League players
481:"Hastings Win The A.F.A. Cup".
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335:Amateur Football Alliance Cup
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676:"Albert Day player profile"
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466:"Preston Rovers' Rise".
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737:People from Camberwell
585:"Aldershot Newcomer".
570:"Football Transfers".
526:"Football Prospects".
313:and progressed to the
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283:footballer
279:Albert Day
51:Camberwell
38:1918-03-07
22:Albert Day
145:(Amateur)
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53:, England
337:and the
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