Charles Reed

Life and career Reed was born in 1882 in Sunderland, The 1901 Census shows the 18-year-old Reed living in Sunderland with his parents and ten siblings and apprenticed as a caulker.

He played football for Sunderland West End before signing for Barnsley as "a promising left full-back" in May 1905. He made his club and Football League debut on 23 September 1905, replacing George Stacey at left back for a Second Division match at home to Burslem Port Vale which Barnsley won 4–0. He went on to make 15 appearances in league and FA Cup,

A year later, "now expected to bear out his early promise", Reed rejoined Barnsley. The 1939 Register finds Reed living with his wife Emily and a daughter of working age in Robinson Street, Hendon. Reed was employed as a road labourer for Sunderland Corporation and also acting as an ARP warden, while Emily was an office caretaker. Reed died in 1950;