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Ted
Harper |
Blackburn Rovers FC
1 appearance, 0 goals
P 1 W 0 D 0 L 1 F 0:
A 1
0% successful
1926
captain: none
minutes played: 90 |
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Profile |
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Full name |
Edward Cashfield Harper |
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Born |
22 August 1901 in Minster, Sheerness, Isle of Sheppey, Kent
[registered in
Sheppey, December 1901]. |
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Census Notes |
According to the 1901
census, Ann Harper is pregnant with a child who will become Edward
Cashfield. She is married to Henry, a skilled labourer on the dockyards.
They already have two children, Henry and May, and they live at 7 Prince
Albert Street in Sheerness. |
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According to the 1911
census, Edward Cashfield is now the third of five children to Henry
Richard and Ann Rebecca. They live at 74 High Street in Mile Town,
Sheerness. His father is now a house painter. |
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Cannot be found on the 1939 register. |
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Died |
22 July 1959, aged
57 years 334 days
[registered in Blackburn, September 1959]. |
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Height/Weight |
5' 10½", 11st. 7lbs [1923].
5' 10½", 11st. 10lbs [1925].
5'
10", 12st. 0lbs [1927]. |
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Source |
Douglas Lammings' An
English Football Internationalist Who's Who [1990] & FindMyPast.com |
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Club Career |
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Club(s) |
Played
junior football in Kent, for Whitstable Town FC and Sheppey United FC,
from where Blackburn Rovers FC signed Harper on 9 May 1923. After
scoring 106 league goals, Sheffield Wednesday FC signed him on 24
November 1927 for under £4000 transfer fee. On 14 March 1929, Tottenham
Hotspur FC signed Harper for another substantial fee. Returned to
Lancashire on 11 December 1931 when Preston North End FC paid £5000 for
Harper and teammate Dick Rowley, for his transfer. Returned to Blackburn
Rovers FC on 10 November 1933 for a £1300 transfer fee. He retired in May
1935 after Rovers placed him on the transfer list. |
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Club honours |
Football League Division One Champions
1928-29; |
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Individual honours |
Football
League Division One Top Goalscorer 1925-26; |
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Distinctions |
None |
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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 |
One of
three who became the 501st
players (502)
to appear for England. |
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Position(s) |
Centre-forward |
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Only match |
No. 149, 17 April 1926, England 0
Scotland 1, a British Championship match at Old Trafford, Stretford, Manchester, aged 24 years
238 days. |
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Major tournaments |
British
Championship 1925-26; |
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Team honours |
None |
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Individual honours |
None |
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Distinctions |
Only the tenth
Kent-born player to represent England.
Died twenty days after Jack
Alderson |
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Beyond England |
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Was an apprentice shipwright. Harper
remained at Blackburn Rovers among the training staff from August 1935
until May 1948. Worked for English Electric until his untimely death in
1959. -
An English Football Internationalists' Who's Who.
Douglas Lamming (1990). Hatton Press, p.120. |
