Sherwin: Harold (Harry)

1921-1925 (Player Details)

Right Half

Born: Walsall: 1893

Debut v Port Vale (h): 27-08-1921

5’8” 11st 4lb (1925)

An England Schoolboy International, Sherwin played for Darlaston before joining Sunderland in December 1913. During World War One he spent the 1915-16 season with Sunderland Rovers then made ninety-one wartime appearances as a guest with Leeds City, including the rarity of being a war-time ever-present in 1917-18. After hostilities ceased he returned to Roker Park, but twenty-eight peacetime League appearances later, joined United in May 1921. Sherwin was the first-choice right-half during United’s 1923-24 Division Two Championship season. He was also a useful centre-half. In March 1925 he moved to Barnsley with Leeds teammate Len Baker and made fourteen appearances at Oakwell before retiring at the end of the 1925-26 season. Sherwin died in Leeds on 8th January 1953, aged fifty-nine.