{{short description|English footballer}} {{use British English|date=January 2020}} {{use dmy dates|date=January 2020}} {{Infobox football biography | name = George Charlton | image = | image_size = | caption = | fullname = George Charlton<ref name=Joyce/> | birth_date = | birth_place = | death_date = | death_place = | height = | position = Outside right | youthyears1 = |youthclubs1 = | years1 = 1933–1934 |clubs1 = Darlington |caps1 = 6 |goals1 = 1 | years2 = 1934–19?? |clubs2 = Shildon }} '''George Charlton''' (active 1930s) was an English amateur footballer who played as an outside right in the Football League for Darlington and in non-league football for Shildon.<ref name=Joyce>{{cite book |last=Joyce |first=Michael |title=Football League Players' Records 1888 to 1939 |publisher=SoccerData |location=Nottingham |page=52 |date=2004 |isbn=978-1-899468-67-6}}</ref>

Charlton made his Darlington debut in a 6–2 Third Division North defeat away to local rivals Hartlepools United on 23 September 1933, and did not appear again until the return fixture in February 1934,<ref name=Tweddle/> when the "local product" filled the vacancy left by the transfer of Harry Brown to Chesterfield.<ref>{{cite news |title=Football Topics |last=M.C. |newspaper=Northern Daily Mail |location=West Hartlepool |date=1 February 1934 |page=7}}</ref> This time, he played what the ''Yorkshire Post'' described as a "very satisfactory game", scored as his team won 5–3, and played in four of the next five league matches before losing his place to Billy Eden.<ref>{{cite news |title=Exciting local 'derby' |newspaper=Yorkshire Post |date=5 February 1934 |page=3}}</ref><ref name=Tweddle>{{cite book |last=Tweddle |first=Frank |title=The Definitive Darlington F.C. |publisher=SoccerData |location=Nottingham |date=2000 |page=35 |isbn=978-1-899468-15-7}}</ref> He moved on to Shildon.<ref name=Joyce/> In his first season, he scored the winning goal in the Northern League Challenge Cup final, and was a regular in the team that won the 1934–35 Northern League title and reached the first round proper of the FA Cup.<ref>{{cite news |title=First round cup-ties |newspaper=Nottingham Evening Post |date=20 November 1934 |page=12}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |first=Brian |last=Hunt |title=Northern Goalfields. Official Centenary History of the Northern League 1889–1989 |publisher=Skol Northern League Management Committee |date=1989 |pages=156–57 |isbn=0-9514597-1-6}}</ref> He helped Shildon win the title in each of the next two seasons, and was still with the club in 1939.<ref>{{cite book |first=Brian |last=Hunt |title=Northern Goalfields |pages=161, 165, 171}}</ref>

Charlton also played cricket as a batsman for Darlington Railway Athletic.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.thenorthernecho.co.uk/opinion/columnists/mikeamos/backtrack/3972060.life-of-brian-is-rewarded/ |title=Life of Brian is rewarded |first=Mike |last=Amos |newspaper=The Northern Echo |location=Darlington |date=12 December 2008 |accessdate=11 January 2020}}</ref>

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