Ted Clamp was an English

England

England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west; the Irish Sea is to the north west, the Celtic Sea to the south west, with the North Sea to the east and the English Channel to the south separating it from continental...

 footballer who gained considerable local renown as a goalkeeper for various teams during the 1940s, 50s and early 60s.

A native of the Gresley

Church Gresley

Church Gresley is a village and former civil parish in the South Derbyshire district of Derbyshire, England. The village is very close to the town of Swadlincote, between the town and Castle Gresley. According to the 2001 census the parish had a population of 4,805.The toponym "Gresley" is derived...

 region in South Derbyshire

South Derbyshire

South Derbyshire is a local government district in Derbyshire, England. It contains a third of the National Forest, and the council offices are in Swadlincote....

, Ted Clamp started to play football during World War II

World War II

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 and soon afterwards accepted offers to play for teams such as Buxton

Buxton F.C.

Buxton Football Club are an English football club based in Buxton, Derbyshire. They were established in 1877 and joined the Combination League in 1891. They then joined the Manchester League in 1899 and won the championship in 1932. They reached the 3rd round of the FA Cup in the 1951-52 season....

, Bolton

Bolton Wanderers F.C.

Bolton Wanderers Football Club is an English professional association football club based in the area of Horwich in the Metropolitan Borough of Bolton, Greater Manchester. They began their current spell in the Premier League in 2001....

 and Derby County

Derby County F.C.

Derby County Football Club is an English football based in Derby. the club play in the Football League Championship and is notable as being one of the twelve founder members of the Football League in 1888 and is, therefore, one of only ten clubs to have competed in every season of the English...

. He was a talented goalie and towards the end of the 1950s was rubbing shoulders with the likes of Stanley Matthews

Stanley Matthews

Sir Stanley Matthews, CBE was an English footballer. Often regarded as one of the greatest players of the English game, he is the only player to have been knighted while still playing, as well as being the first winner of both the European Footballer of the Year and the Football Writers'...

 and Billy Steel

Billy Steel

Billy Steel was a Scottish footballer who played for St. Mirren, Morton, Derby County, Dundee and the Scotland national team....

, including being featured in Steel's 1948 book, How to Play Football.

At the end of the 1950s, as Clamp entered his mid-thirties, his career slowed and, by the early 1960s, he began to spend more time on the boards of clubs than on the playing field, ceasing his goalie career by the middle of the decade. At the end of the 60s, as his name value faded, he became a bookie in the town of Swadlincote

Swadlincote

Swadlincote is a town and unparished area in South Derbyshire, about southeast of Burton-upon-Trent and about south of Derby. It is the main town of South Derbyshire and the seat of South Derbyshire District Council....

, which adjoins Gresley.

In the year of his 66th birthday, while visiting a library, Ted Clamp died of a heart attack. His sister, Noreen, with whom he lived throughout his life, died eleven years later, in 2001.