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|birth_date = {{birth date|1897|11|23|df=y}}[4]
|birth_place = Crook, County Durham, England
|death_date = {{death date and age|1973|4|15|1897|11|23|df=y}}[4]
|death_place = Crook, County Durham
|height =
|position = Forward
|youthyears1 = |youthclubs1 =
|years1 = 19??–1921 |clubs1 = Darlington Railway Athletic
|years2 = 1921–1922 |clubs2 = Darlington{{efn|Infobox appearances and goals only include those in the Football League.[1] Colling scored four goals in the 1920–21 North-Eastern League,[7] but no source for his appearances in that league has yet been supplied.}}|caps2 = 2 |goals2 = 1
|years3 = 1922–1923 |clubs3 = Durham City |caps3 = 14 |goals3 = 4
|years4 = |clubs4 = Shildon
|years5 = |clubs5 = Chopwell Institute
}}Fred Colling (23 November 1897 – 15 April 1973) was an English footballer who made 16 appearances in the Football League playing as a forward for Darlington and Durham City. He also played non-league football for Darlington Railway Athletic, Shildon and Chopwell Institute.
Football career
Colling was born in Crook, County Durham,[1] one of several children of Henry Colling, a coal miner, and his wife Sarah Jane.[9] He played Northern League football for Darlington Railway Athletic,[1][11] before joining North-Eastern League club Darlington in the second half of the 1920–21 season.[12] After Darlington's election to the newly formed Northern Section of the Football League's third tier, Colling began the 1921–22 season in the club's reserve team, which took the place of the senior team in the North-Eastern League.[13] He made his Football League debut in the fourth match of the campaign, on 17 September away to Chesterfield, replacing Bill Hooper at inside right. Darlington won 3–0; "the third goal, which came in the last minute, was scored by {{sic|nolink=y|Collings}}, who sent in a long, fast shot which deceived Mitchell".[14] Hooper resumed for the next match,[15] and Colling played only once more for Darlington in the League.[1]
He signed for another Northern Section club, Durham City, in June 1922.[17] He impressed in pre-season practice,[18] and played regularly at inside right at the beginning of the campaign. He scored his first goal for Durham in their first win of the season, on 23 September against Accrington Stanley,[19] and scored twice more in the next few matches,[20] but played little in the latter part of the season and finished his Durham career with four goals from fourteen league appearances.[1]
After leaving Durham City, Colling appeared for clubs including Shildon and Chopwell Institute.[ His application for a permit to resume amateur status was successful. While a permit player, he was caught up in the 1928 illegal payments crisis, in which several hundred amateur players registered to clubs under the auspices of the Durham County Football Association were suspended and deemed professionals for receiving "tea money"{{snd}}payments, often very small, over and above reimbursement of the minimal legitimate expenses allowed.[23] In evidence to the inquiry, Colling admitted that Darlington Railway had paid him up to £1 10s per match, and that as an amateur with Darlington he had received a minimum of 15s per match plus travelling expenses.[24]]
Colling was living in Crook at the time of his death in 1973 at the age of 75.[4]
Notes
{{notelist}}References
1. ^1 2 3 4 5 6 {{cite book |last=Joyce |first=Michael |title=Football League Players' Records 1888 to 1939 |publisher=SoccerData |location=Nottingham |page=57 |date=2004 |isbn=978-1-899468-67-6}}
2. ^1 {{cite book |first=Frank |last=Tweddle |title=The Definitive Darlington F.C. |publisher=SoccerData |location=Nottingham |date=2000 |page=22 |isbn=978-1-899468-15-7}}
3. ^1 {{cite web |url=http://www.freebmd.org.uk/cgi/information.pl?cite=OKa6hb%2FRO6eiI3njY6MzmQ&scan=1 |title=Index entry |website=FreeBMD |publisher=Office for National Statistics |accessdate=28 December 2018}}
4. ^1 2 3 {{cite web |url=http://www.freebmd.org.uk/cgi/information.pl?cite=H%2B0iaZWQCezXldGvVHVpTQ&scan=1 |title=Index entry |website=FreeBMD |publisher=Office for National Statistics |accessdate=28 December 2018}}
{{cite web |url=https://probatesearch.service.gov.uk/Calendar?surname=Colling&yearOfDeath=1973&page=2#calendar |title=Find a will: Colling, 1973 |work=Probate Calendar |publisher=Probate Service |page=1772 |accessdate=28 December 2018}}
5. ^1 {{cite web |url=https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XSHL-X2X |title=Fred Colling in household of Henry Colling, Crook And Billy Row, Durham, England |work=1901 England, Wales & Scotland Census |at=Sub-district: Hamsterley. Archive reference: RG13. Page: 58 |via=FamilySearch.org |accessdate=28 December 2018 |registration=yes}}
6. ^1 {{cite news |title=Northern League |newspaper=Yorkshire Post |date=6 December 1920 |page=4}}
7. ^1 {{cite news |title=Darlington v. Rochdale |newspaper=Yorkshire Post |date=14 February 1921 |page=4 |quote=Near half-time Darlington scored, {{sic|nolink=y|Collins}}, a new centre forward, putting on two goals in quick succession}}
8. ^1 {{cite news |title=North-Eastern League |newspaper=Yorkshire Post |date=5 September 1921 |page=4}}
9. ^1 {{cite news |title=Another crushing defeat |last='Candid Critic' |newspaper=Derbyshire Courier |date=17 September 1921 |page=8}}
{{cite news |title=Another defeat |last='Candid Critic' |newspaper=Derbyshire Courier |date=24 September 1921 |page=8}}
10. ^1 {{cite news |title=Darlington v. Nelson |newspaper=Yorkshire Post |date=26 September 1921 |page=4 |quote=Both sides were at full strength, Hooper returning to the Darlington forward line.}}
11. ^1 {{cite news |title=Darlingtonian signs for Durham City |newspaper=Northern Daily Mail |location=West Hartlepool |date=28 June 1922 |page=5}}
12. ^1 {{cite news |title=Durham City strong in defence |newspaper=Yorkshire Post |date=21 August 1922 |page=4 |quote=The outstanding players were Parsons and Gilmore (full backs), Harrison (half), and Atkinson and Colling (forwards) for the Stripes.}}
13. ^1 {{cite news |title=Durham City v. Accrington. Player ordered off |newspaper=Yorkshire Post |date=25 September 1922 |page=4}}
14. ^1 {{cite news |title=Halifax surprised |newspaper=Athletic News |location=Manchester |date=9 October 1922 |page=7}}
{{cite news |title=Honours even |newspaper=Athletic News |location=Manchester |date=16 October 1922 |page=7}}
15. ^1 {{cite news |title=Stamping out sham amateurism. F.A.'s drastic action. Wholesale suspensions and fines in Durham |newspaper=Yorkshire Post |date=30 June 1928 |page=9 |quote=F. Colling, formerly of Darlington F.C. and Darlington Railway F.C., who was granted a permit to play as an amateur without remuneration after having formerly played for Darlington F.C. as a professional, was suspended for next season. His permit was withdrawn, and will not be granted again.}}
{{cite book |url=https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=YZ6MAQAAQBAJ&pg=PA133 |title=The Association Game: A History of British Football |first=Matthew |last=Taylor |publisher=Routledge |location=Abingdon |date=2013 |isbn=978-0-582-50596-4 |page=133}}
16. ^1 {{cite book |first=Brian |last=Hunt |title=Northern Goalfields. Official Centenary History of the Northern League 1889–1989 |publisher=Skol Northern League Management Committee |date=1989 |page=409 |isbn=0-9514597-1-6}}