Full name Ernest Wilson Young Years Team | Playing position Date of birth 1893 Name Ernie Young | |
Place of birth Thornaby-on-Tees, England | ||
Ernest Wilson "Ernie" Young (1893 – after 1922) was an English footballer who played as a centre forward in the Football League for Middlesbrough and Darlington.
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Personal life
Young was born in Thornaby-on-Tees in early 1893, the son of Ernest Wilson Young, a railway worker, and his wife Lilly, and baptised in March of that year. The 1911 census records Young working as a railway clerk, and the oldest of five surviving children, all still living with their parents in the Newport district of Middlesbrough.
Football career
Young made his senior debut for Middlesbrough on 23 April 1921 at home to Chelsea in the First Division, a match in which Middlesbrough made four changes to their forward line. In the first minute, Young "darted forward in threatening fashion, but finished his fine individual effort shooting just over the bar"; neither side's players could do better, and the match ended goalless. He was retained for the 1921–22 season, but made no more first-team appearances, and he signed for Third Division North runners-up Darlington in the summer of 1922, ahead of their second season in the Football League.
He was in competition with at least six other men for Darlington's centre-forward position, including Bill Hooper, normally an inside right, who had been the club's top scorer in 1921–22, and the veteran Dick Healey. Young played in 13 of the 42 league matches, and scored four league goals, including a pair on Christmas Day against local rivals Hartlepools United. Together with Darlington teammate Bob Mitcheson, Young left the club at the end of the season to play in the North-Eastern League for Leadgate Park.