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Arsenal on Twitter @UntoldArsenal Untold Arsenal on Facebook here By Tony Attwood This is the final entry in our series of articles about players who played 100 or more games for Woolwich Arsenal. This final article takes us to a group of players in the 100+ club who we have covered before. I’m listing them …
This article is one of a series on the players who played 100 or more times for Woolwich Arsenal FC. There’s now an index of all the articles in this continuing series here. Arsenal on Twitter @UntoldArsenal Untold Arsenal on Facebook here James “Jimmy” Sharp played for Arsenal at left back between 1905 and 1908. …
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Arsenal on Twitter @UntoldArsenal Untold Arsenal on Facebook here In our series of articles about the players who made over 100 appearances for Woolwich Arsenal we come to David Neave. David Neave was born in 1883 and played for Arsenal in two separate spells between 1904 and 1912, making 168 appearances (154 in the league) …
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Arsenal on Twitter @UntoldArsenal Untold Arsenal on Facebook here by Tony Attwood Charles Oliver Satterthwaite (known as Charlie) was born in 1877 and played for Arsenal from 1904/5 until the 1909/10 season. He made 141 appearances for the club of which 129 were in the league, and scored 48 goals (45 in the league). His …
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Arsenal on Twitter @UntoldArsenal Untold Arsenal on Facebook here By Tony Attwood If you are a regular reader of this site, you’ll know that I have got very excited from time to time when we have been contacted by members of the family of those who played for the club, or held important positions. In …
Arsenal on Twitter @UntoldArsenal Untold Arsenal on Facebook here By Tony Attwood Next up in our list of Woolwich Arsenal players who played over 100 games for the club we have Roderick John McEachrane (Roddy) who played 313 league games – and played 346 games in all – for Woolwich Arsenal. There are full details …
Archie George Cross was born in Dartford, in 1880, and played 149 times for the club (132 in the league). He joined Dartford, before transferring to New Brompton and then Woolwich Arsenal in April 1900, playing throughout as a right back. The chances are that once again we have here a case of a footballer …
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By Tony Attwood James (Jimmy) Ashcroft is a player of enormous importance in the history of Arsenal as a club – a player who would adorn the outside of the Emirates Stadium if they took into account players from the Woolwich era. He played for Woolwich Arsenal for eight seasons fro 1900 – 1908 in …
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Arsenal on Twitter @UntoldArsenal Untold Arsenal on Facebook here Duncan McNichol Moving on to the third part of the survey of players who played over 100 times for Woolwich Arsenal we have Duncan McNichol, a right back who played for the club between 1899 and 1903 making 112 appearances (101 in the league) scoring one …
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Arsenal on Twitter @UntoldArsenal Untold Arsenal on Facebook here The story of John Dick, by Tony Attwood John Dick, born in Eaglesham in Renfewshire in 1876 played 284 games for Woolwich Arsenal, and scored 13 goals (262 in league with 12 goals). He joined in 1898 and left in 1912. In every possible way he …
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Arsenal on Twitter @UntoldArsenal Untold Arsenal on Facebook here One of the factors that I have reported on many times while looking into the history of the Woolwich Arsenal players is how quickly many of the players moved on. As far as I can see only one of the players who started the very first …
Untold Arsenal on Facebook here Arsenal History on Twitter @UntoldArsenal ————————– By Tony Attwood Donald Slade is the final member of the team that played the last ever game under the name Woolwich Arsenal FC. Slade is one of those few players whose lives at other clubs is well documented but whose time at Arsenal …
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By Tony Attwood This is part of a series of articles about the players who played in the very last Woolwich Arsenal FC game in 1913 at Highbury. A full list of the team is at the end. Alex Graham was born in Hurlford, Ayrshire on 11 July 1890 and started playing for local his …
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By Tony Attwood Robert William Benson, known as “Bob” was born in Whitehaven in Cumbria on 9 February 1883. His first club is recorded as Shankhouse of the Northern Alliance, and then Shalwell (a district near Newcastle – but I can find no record of the club), and Wikipedia suggests that at the same time …
Read More “Bob Benson, Arsenal player with a great sense of humour, who died playing for the club.”
By Tony Attwood Joe Lievesley was born Staveley, (although which Staveley I am not sure) on 25 July 1883 and died on 18 October 1941. He played in goal for Poolsbrook United, Sheffield United, and Woolwich Arsenal One of the first records we have of him playing was in an FA Cup first round replay …
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By Tony Attwood I am in the process of writing a book on the early Arsenal, correcting the mistakes of earlier publications, filling in the gaps, and hopefully revealing much more than previous volumes about the daily lives of the players and the supporters of the club. In this venture I am being increasingly assisted …
By Tony Attwood This is the final article in the series that traces the history of the 11 players who took part in the final Woolwich Arsenal game at Plumstead, against Middlesbrough on 26 April 1913. The game was a 1-1 draw in front of the worst crowd of the season – 3000. Details of …
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Looking at the record one might think that Archibald Devine was a player who could not settle! Archibald F Devine was born in Lochore, Fife, on 2 April 1887 and started out playing Scottish junior (ie non-league) football, before moving into the league. For him, changing clubs was what it was all about. He wasn’t …
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By Tony Attwood Stephen J Stonley [but see the note in the comments about his middle name] was a centre forward, born in Sunderland in 1891. He played for… Seaham. I only have the information that Stonley played for “Seaham” but it appears there are several teams now with the Seaham name, however none date …
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This article continues the series dedicated to the men who played in the final ever game at Plumstead. Today, WA Spittle. There’s a list of the team for the final game of the 1912/13 season at the foot of the page. William Spittle was an inside forward, born in Southfields April 1893. He played for …
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By Tony Attwood Note: this is one of a series of articles that researches the history of the eleven players who played in the last ever Woolwich Arsenal match at Plumstead Angus McKinnon, was born in Paisley on 6 December 1885. His Arsenal career covered the period 1908 to 1922 and included 217 appearances for …
By Tony Attwood This article is one of the series on the players who played in the last ever Woolwich Arsenal game in Kent on 26 April 1913. Joseph Fidler was a left back born in Sheffield in 1885. His playing career is not well charted, and I have not been able to find details …
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We have just published a couple of articles in the “My grandfather played for Arsenal” series. Third third story has been published in outline before, and following the article I received this note… Hugh MacDonald was my grandfather. I never knew him as he died in 1920 after suffering the effects of poison gas in …
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By Simon Weir. Background research by Tony Attwood My great great uncle PATRICK BOYLAN played for Woolwich Arsenal in the 1896/97 season. Patrick signed in 1896 and played one season in the first team and reserves before returning to Greenock Morton. His photo in his Arsenal kit can be seen here: http://weir223.tribalpages.com/tribe/browse?userid=weir223&view=63&bview=19&pid=37&rand=50026290 Also a wee …
This is a start to another series of articles on this blog: in each case starting from the point that a correspondent writes about his/her relative who played for Arsenal. I’ve no idea how many entries we will get, but my main thought is to get some insights. If you want to join in, email …
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