Stan Bentham, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Stan Bentham

English footballer

Date of Birth: 17-Mar-1916

Place of Birth: Leigh, England, United Kingdom

Date of Death: 29-May-2002

Profession: association football player

Nationality: United Kingdom

Zodiac Sign: Pisces

Stanley Joseph Bentham (17 March 1915 – 29 May 2002) was an English footballer. Born at Leigh, Lancashire, in 1915, he had a trial with Football League club Bolton Wanderers as a teenager in the early 1930s but was not offered a professional contract and signed for non-league Wigan Athletic instead.
He played five times for the club in the 1933-34 season as they won the Cheshire County League title, scoring three goals.
He turned professional on 1 January 1935, still only aged 18, when First Division giants Everton signed him.
He made his senior debut on 23 November 1935 in a league game against Grimsby Town at Blundell Park and was soon a regular first team player, missing just one league game in the 1938-39 season, but he was 23 years old when in September of that year World War II broke out and by the time league action resumed for the 1946-47 season, he was already 30 years old and had lost most of the prime years of his career. He remained with Everton as a player before retiring at the end of the 1947-48 season, by which time he had played 125 competitive games for the Goodison Park club (110 of them in the league) and scored seven goals.
He remained on the club's payroll as a coach until 1962, when he secured a similar position at Luton Town.
This was his final job in football. By the late 1990s, Bentham was suffering from Alzheimer's disease and was living in a nursing home at Southport by the time of his death in May 2002 at the age of 87.