For the England World Cup winner, see Alan Ball, Jr..

James Alan Ball Sr. (26 September 1924^[1] – 2 January 1982) was an English footballer and manager.

Born in Farnworth, Bolton, Lancashire,^[1] Ball played as an inside-forward for Bolton Boys Federation, Southport (in two spells), Birmingham City (although he did not play a Football League match for them), Oldham Athletic and Rochdale.^[1]

He managed Halifax Town in two separate spells (1967–1970) and (1976–1977),^[2] and in-between these he managed Preston North End between 1970 and 1973^[3] and Southport, IF Saab and IK Sirius.^[4]

Ball managed Djurgårdens IF Fotboll in 1979.^[5]

His son, Alan Jr., played in England's 1966 FIFA World Cup winning team and later followed his father into management.

References[link]

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Alan Ball may refer to:

• Alan Ball (screenwriter) (born 1957), American screenwriter and director
• Alan Ball, Jr. (1945–2007), English footballer and manager
• Alan Ball, Sr. (1924–1982), English footballer and manager
• Alan Ball (American football) (born 1985), American football player

See also:

• Allan Ball, English footballer with Queen of the South

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Alan John Ross, (6 May 1922 – 14 February 2001), was a British poet, writer and editor. He was born in Calcutta, India, where he spent the first seven years of his life. When he was sent to be educated in Falmouth, England, Ross spoke better Hindustani than English.

Early years[link]

Following preparatory school Ross boarded at Haileybury where, being both small for his age and a latecomer to his year, he initially suffered greatly from bullying—to his intense relief the bully was killed in a vacation cycling accident—but his stock quickly rose when he revealed a talent which matched his passion for cricket. With a hint of the debonair style that was to characterise his life, he avoided participation in the OTC and all study of mathematics and science, instead enjoying art, French poetry and racquet sports. As a senior boy he was caned for making an unlicensed visit to Wimbledon; it was his misfortune that he figured, smoking a cigarette, in a photograph of spectators carried in his headmaster's newspaper the following morning.^[1]

In 1940 he went to read modern languages at St John's College, Oxford, where he was a contemporary of Philip Larkin and Kingsley Amis. Ross represented the university at both cricket and squash but did not complete his studies after joining the Royal Navy in 1941. Before doing so, he appeared in the annual match against Cambridge at Lord's in 1941, but because of World War II the fixture was reduced to a single day and did not have first-class status.^[2] The same season he appeared in one one-day match for Northamptonshire.

Naval career[link]

During his first two years in the Royal Navy, Ross served on several destroyers escorting supply ships to the Soviet Union. On 30 December 1942 Ross was almost killed whilst serving aboard HMS Onslow (G17), the leading destroyer in a convoy assigned to fend off a strong flotilla of German capital ships intent on annihilating the arctic convoy JW51B, at the Battle of the Barents Sea. He was ordered to take a turn controlling a fire below in the forward part of the ship and, to save the main body of the ship in the event of an explosion, sealed in for half an hour with a hose, armpit-deep in water, the bodies of two gun crews washing against him. The incident is vividly described in both his poem "J.W.51B a convoy", and his first volume of memoirs.^[3]

Journalistic career[link]

After he was demobilised in 1946 Ross decided not to resume his studies at Oxford but instead try his hand at journalism. In 1946 his first poetry collection The Derelict Day was published, it contained poems he had written whilst in the Navy. The following year the publisher John Lehmann funded Ross and the artist John Minton to travel to Corsica to produce the travel book Time Was Away.

In 1949 Ross married Jennifer Fry, only daughter of Sir Geoffrey Fry, Bt. of the Frys who founded the chocolate company. He became a sports writer for The Observer in 1950 and became the paper's cricket correspondent in 1953, the same year his son was born. Throughout the 1950s Ross was a regular contributor to Lehmann's London Magazine, before taking over as the title's editor in 1961. He edited the monthly magazine until his death; during this period it transformed from an academic literary review to a far more cutting-edge review of the arts.

Bibliography[link]

• The Derelict Day (1947)
• Time Was Away: a notebook in Corsica (1948)
• The bandit on the billiard table, a journey through Sardinia (1954)
• Something of the Sea (1954) pub. Derek Verschoyle - London
• Poems 1942-67 (1967)
• The Taj Express (1973)
• Open Sea (1975)
• Death Valley (1980)
• Blindfold Games (1986)
• Coastwise Lights (1988)
• Winter Sea: War, Journeys, Writers (1998)
• Reflections on Blue Water (2000)
• Poems (2005)

Major works on Cricket[link]

• Australia 55 (1955)
• Cape Summer and the Australians in England (1956)
• Through the Caribbean (1960)
• Australia 63 (1963)
• Ranji: Prince of Cricketers (1983)
• The Cricketer's Companion (ed) (1960). Republished as Kingswood book of cricket (1979)
• Green fading into blue (1999) (Writings on sport)

Notes[link]

1. ^ Ross, Alan (1986). Blindfold Games. London: Collins Harvill. pp. 96–111. 
2. ^ Scorecard of the University Match in which Ross played
3. ^ Blindfold Games. pp. 161–200. 

References[link]

• Haigh, Gideon. "Big pictures, artfully painted." 6 September 2008. Accessed 7 September 2008.
• Ross, Alan (1986). Blindfold Games. London, Collins Harvill. ISBN 0-00-272773-0.
• Ross, Alan (1988). Coastwise Lights. London, Collins Harvill. ISBN 0-00-271767-0.
• Obituary from The Guardian
• Photograph of Alan Ross, The Guardian. Accessed 26 October 2010.
• “Antwerp” (Poem)

Allen Doyle
Personal information
Full name	Allen Michael Doyle
Born	(1948-07-26) July 26, 1948 (age 63) Woonsocket, Rhode Island
Height	6 ft 3 in (1.91 m)
Weight	210 lb (95 kg; 15 st)
Nationality	United States
Career
College	Norwich University
Turned professional	1995
Current tour(s)	Champions Tour
Former tour(s)	PGA Tour
Professional wins	19
Number of wins by tour
Nationwide Tour	3
Champions Tour	11
Other	5
Best results in Major Championships
Masters Tournament	DNP
U.S. Open	CUT: 1991, 2006, 2007
The Open Championship	DNP
PGA Championship	DNP

Allen Michael Doyle (born July 26, 1948) is an American golfer who currently plays on the Champions Tour.

Doyle was born in Woonsocket, Rhode Island and raised in the Boston suburb of Norwood, Massachusetts. He attended Catholic Memorial High School in West Roxbury, Massachusetts, and Norwich University in Vermont. Exceptionally for a future leading professional, and despite winning numerous amateur titles, he did not turn pro until he was 46. In 1995 he won three times on the Nike Tour.

Doyle became eligible to play on the Senior PGA Tour when he turned fifty in July 1998, and won four official money events in 1999 including the Senior PGA Championship. In 2001 he won his second senior major, the Senior Players Championship, and led the tour on the money list. In 2005 he claimed a third major at the U.S. Senior Open, coming behind from a nine stroke deficit with a 63 in the final round. He successfully defended his U.S. Senior Open title in 2006 becoming the oldest U.S. Senior Open Champion at 57 years, 11 months and 17 days.^[1] His career earnings on the Champions Tour exceed US$11 million.

Doyle is a member of the Georgia Sports Hall of Fame and the Georgia Golf Hall of Fame.

Amateur wins (7)[link]

• 1989 Sunnehanna Amateur
• 1990 Sunnehanna Amateur
• 1992 Sunnehanna Amateur
• 1993 Northeast Amateur
• 1994 Dogwood Invitational, Sunnehanna Amateur, Porter Cup

Professional wins (19)[link]

Nationwide Tour wins (3)[link]

No.	Date	Tournament	Winning Score	Margin of Victory	Runner-up
1	Apr 9, 1995	NIKE Mississippi Gulf Coast Classic	-15 (66-70-67-70=273)	Playoff1	Franklin Langham
2	Aug 27, 1995	NIKE Texarkana Open	-19 (66-70-66-66=269)	1 stroke	Gary Rusnak
3	Oct 22, 1995	NIKE Tour Championship	-5 (72-68-72-71=283)	Playoff2	John Maginnes

¹Defeated Langham with par on second extra hole.
²Defeated Maginnes with par on first extra hole.

Other wins (1)[link]

• 1996 PGA Tour Qualifying Tournament (tie with Jimmy Johnston)

Champions Tour wins (11)[link]

No.	Date	Tournament	Winning Score	Margin of Victory	Runner(s)-up
1	Feb 28, 1999	ACE Group Classic	-13 (64-70-69=203)	5 strokes	Vicente Fernández
2	Apr 18, 1999	PGA Seniors' Championship	-14 (70-71-69-64=274)	2 strokes	Vicente Fernández
3	Jun 6, 1999	Cadillac NFL Golf Classic	-12 (67-66-71=204)	Playoff	Joe Inman
4	Sep 5, 1999	TD Waterhouse Championship	-12 (66-70-65=198)	2 strokes	Ed Dougherty
5	Mar 5, 2000	Toshiba Senior Classic	-8 (67-69=136)	1 stroke	Jim Thorpe, Howard Twitty
6	Jul 15, 2001	Ford Senior Players Championship	-15 (67-69-70-67=273)	Playoff	Doug Tewell
7	Jul 29, 2001	State Farm Senior Classic	-11 (73-65-67=205)	Playoff	Bruce Fleisher
8	Aug 3, 2003	FleetBoston Classic	-15 (68-63-67=198)	3 strokes	Bruce Fleisher, Bob Gilder
9	Jun 13, 2004	Bayer Advantage Celebrity Pro-Am	-13 (65-66=131)	1 stroke	Jerry Pate
10	Jul 31, 2005	U.S. Senior Open	-10 (71-67-73-63=274)	1 stroke	Loren Roberts, D. A. Weibring
11	Jul 9, 2006	U.S. Senior Open	-8 (69-68-67-68=272)	2 strokes	Tom Watson

Other senior wins (4)[link]

• 1999 Senior Slam
• 2001 Senior Slam, Hyundai Team Matches (with Dana Quigley)
• 2002 Hyundai Team Matches (with Dana Quigley)

Champions Tour major championships[link]

Wins (4)[link]

Year	Championship	Winning Score	Margin	Runner(s)-up
1999	PGA Seniors' Championship	−14 (71−71−68−64=274)	2 strokes	Vicente Fernández
2001	Ford Senior Players Championship	−15 (67−69−70−67=273)	Playoff1	Doug Tewell
2005	U.S. Senior Open	−10 (71−67−73−63=274)	1 stroke	Loren Roberts, D. A. Weibring
2006	U.S. Senior Open (2)	−8 (69−68−67−68=272)	2 strokes	Tom Watson

¹ Won on the first playoff hole over Tewell.

Results timeline[link]

Results not in chronological order before 2011.

The Senior British Open was not a Champions Tour major until 2003.
DNP = Did not play
CUT = missed the halfway cut
"T" indicates a tie for a place
Green background for wins. Yellow background for top-10.

U.S. national team appearances[link]

Amateur

• Eisenhower Trophy: 1990, 1992, 1994 (team winners and individual winner)
• Walker Cup: 1991 (winners), 1993 (winners)

See also[link]

• Golfers with most Champions Tour wins
• Golfers with most Champions Tour major championship wins

References[link]

External links[link]

• Allen Doyle at the PGA Tour official site