Charles Bumstead

Playing career Bumstead was born in Croydon, Dick Graham was the first-choice 'keeper at the time and Bumstead was restricted to three games in 1949–50, but made 24 appearances in 1950–51 when Graham's career was coming to an end. Graham retired through injury in 1951 and Bumstead began the next season as first-choice, but played only 10 times before signing for Dover Town (a forerunner of Dover Athletic) in November that year. He had made 53 League appearances (55 in all competitions) for Palace. and went on to make 87 appearances in all competitions for the club. By 1957–58 he was known to have retired as a player and was youth team coach at Millwall.

Charles Bumstead died in 1974 aged 52.