Biography
Welsh outside right Clifford Sherwood joined Hull City in June 1938 as makeweight, alongside Jack Dowen, for the transfer of left-back David Parker to Wolves. Sherwood started four of the first five league games in the 1938/39 season, during which City scored ten goals and remained unbeaten. However the signing of South African winger George Wienand signalled the end of Sherwood’s time in the first team and he was given a free transfer in April 1939.
Clifford Henry Sherwood was born in Merthyr Tydfil into a coal mining family but had moved from the Taff Valley to the adjacent Cynon Valley when he started playing for Aberaman in 1934 while working as a coal miner. In October 1937 he was snapped up by First Division Wolverhampton Wanderers and spent the 1937/38 season in the Wolves Reserves and A teams before his transfer to Hull City nine months later.
Sherwood returned to South Wales in the summer of 1939 to live with his parents and spent the 1939/40 season playing for Aberaman and working in the local colliery. His playing career didn’t resume after his involvement in World War Two, he died in Pontypridd in 1977.
Details
Nationality: Wales
Date/Place of Birth: 21 March 1916, Merthyr Tydfil
Hull City First Game: 10 September 1938, Carlisle United A (Division Three North), 22 years, 173 days old
Hull City Final Game: 1 October 1938, Accrington Stanley A (Division Three North), 22 years, 194 days old
Clubs
Aberaman (1934-1937), Wolverhampton Wanderers (1937-1938), Hull City (1938-1939), Aberaman (1939-1940)
Hull City Record
Career: 4 apps, 0 goals
Clifford Sherwood| Season | LGE App | LGE Gls | FAC App | FAC Gls | FLC App | FLC Gls | EUR App | EUR Gls | OTH App | OTH Gls |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1938/39 | 4 | 0 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |