Dennis Stokoe [SEP] position played on team / speciality
Dennis Stokoe
Dennis Stokoe (6 June 1925 – 4 August 2005) was an English professional footballer who played as a wing half.
Career.
Born in Blyth, Stokoe played for North Shields, Chesterfield, Carlisle United, Workington, Gateshead and Horden Colliery Welfare.
Later life and death.
Stokoe worked as the chief business reporter on the "Newcastle Journal" between 1969 and 1990; he died on 4 August 2005.
selected for the Third Division North representative team while at Workington, made a total of 469 league and cup appearances for the club between 1956 and 1967.
Bobby Brown, Malcolm Newlands, Jimmy Fleming, Dennis Stokoe and Jack Bertolini were all recognised by the Football League and played in the Football League Third Division North vs. South Representative Games during the 1950s.
History Modern Non-League Years.
The club dropped into the Northern Premier League (NPL), but failed to trouble the top teams, never finishing higher than