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Steve
Bloomer |
Derby County
FC, Middlesbrough FC
23 caps, 28 goals
P 23 W 15 D 6 L 2 F x:
A x
78% successful
1895-1907
disciplined: none
captaincies: one
minutes played: 2070 |
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Profile |
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Full name |
Stephen Bloomer |
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Born |
20 January 1874
in Cradley Heath, Worcestershire.
[registered in
Stourbridge, March 1874].
Attended St. James' Church of
England Boarding School, Derby |
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Census Notes |
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According to the 1881 census,
Stephen is the eldest of three children to Caleb and Mareb (née
Dunn) living at 44 Yates Street in Litchurch. His father is a puddler. |
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According to the 1891
census, Stephen now has three more younger siblings. They live at 87 Yates
Street with just their widowed father. Stephen is a striker in the
blacksmith industry. |
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According to the 1901 census,
a professional footballer and married to Sarah, with two daughters, Violet
and Hetty, living at 81 Cummings Street in Derby. |
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According to the 1911
census, Stephen is still a professional footballer, still married and now
a third daughter, Doris. They live at 35 Portland Street in Derby. |
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Married |
to Sarah Walker,
18 August 1896 in Derby
[registered in Derby, Derbyshire, September 1896]. Four
children, Hetty Winifred, Violet Pretoria, Doris Alexandra and Patricia K. |
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Died |
16 April 1938
in Derby, aged 64 years x days
[registered in Derby, June 1938]. |
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Height/Weight |
5'
7", 10st.
12lbs [1901]. |
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Source |
Douglas Lammings' An
English Football Internationalist Who's Who [1990] & FindMyPast.com |
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Biographies |
Steve Bloomer:
The Story of Football's First Superstar - Peter Seddon. (Breedon) |
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x.
- A Football Compendium, Peter J. Seddon (1999). |
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Club Career |
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Club(s) |
Started playing
football with St. James' School in the Derbyshire Minor
League,
then in
1888 Bloomer joined Derby Swifts
FC.
He also briefly played for Tutbury Hawthorn
FC,
before being discovered by the English international centre-forward
John Goodall, Derby County (1892-1906), Middlesbrough (1906-1910) and Derby County again
(1910-1914). His English League goals records of 352 was finally beaten by
Billy Dean in 1936. Scored 394 League and Cup goals
in 655 games. |
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Club honours |
x |
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Individual honours |
x |
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Distinctions |
x |
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Source |
Douglas Lammings' An English
Football Internationalist Who's Who [1990]. |
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England Career |
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Player number |
220th
player to appear for England. |
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Position(s) |
Inside-right |
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First match |
No. x, 9 March 1895, aged 21 years
48 days. |
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Last match |
No. x, 6 April 1907, aged 33 years 76 days. |
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Major tournaments |
x |
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Team honours |
x |
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Individual honours |
x |
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Distinctions |
x |
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Beyond England |
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Bloomer made a critical error of
judgement by accepting the job of coach with the Britannia Berlin 92
Sports Club, in Berlin, arriving in the German capital just three weeks
before the First World War broke out and, as an alien, spent almost all of
the next four war years as an internee at the Civilian Detention Camp, on
the racecourse at Ruhleben, six miles from Berlin. -
An English Football Internationalists' Who's Who.
Douglas Lamming (1990). Hatton Press, p.x./Darlington Northern Echo
article 18 August 2007 |
England
Football Online