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Jackie
Mordue |
Sunderland AFC
2 appearances, 0 goals
P 2 W 1 D
0 L 1 F 7: A 3
50% successful
1912-13
captain: none
minutes played: 180 |
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Timeline |
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John Mordue |
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Birth |
13 December 1886 in
Edmondsley, County Durham [registered in
Chester-le-Street, March 1887]. |
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According to the 1891
census, John is the youngest of five children, all sons, to Thomas and
Elizabeth (née Dodds). They live at Front Street in Witton Gilbert
with three lodgers. His father is a coalminer. |
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According to the 1901
census, John is the one of four children, the youngest, living at home
with their widowed mother at 258 Eighth Street in Witton Gilbert. He is
now a coalminer working on the pit heap. |
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Marriage |
to Catherine Abram
[registered in Woolwich, London, 1908], at least one child.
Edna. |
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According to the 1911
census, John is a professional footballer now married to Kate with one
child, Edna. They live at 61 Bede Street in Sunderland. |
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According to the 1921
census, John, still a professional footballer (with Middlesbrough FC), is
still married, but, along with his father, is living with his
step-grandparents, Joseph and Elizabeth Crossley at the Anderson Buildings
in Sacriston. |
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Death |
6 March 1938 at Sunderland
Municipal Hospital, aged
51 years 83 days
[registered in Sunderland, March 1938]. |
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Funeral |
10 March 1938 at
Bishopwearmouth
Cemetery, Sunderland.
Messrs. R. Gurney, H. Carter, A.
Hall and R. Johnston acted as bearers. The cortège from the Pallion
Workmen's Club to the Cemetery was headed by members of the Order of
Buffaloes, of which Mordue was a member. |
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Death notes |
Did not die on 14
December 1957, that was a completely different John Mordue. |
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Source |
 Douglas Lammings' An
English Football Internationalist Who's Who [1990] & |
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Playing Career |
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Club(s) |
Began
playing with Sacriston FC and Spennymoor United FC before signing with
Barnsley FC in October 1906. After scoring twelve goals in 25
league appearances, he signed with Woolwich Arsenal FC on 8 April
1907 for £450. He scored once in 26 league appearances.
Mordue returned to his native north-east when he joined Sunderland AFC for £750
on 6 May 1908, where he scored another 71 goals, making another 262
league appearances. Joined Middlesbrough FC on 11 May 1920,
making 35 league appearances and scoring a solitary goal. Then
joined Durham City FC as player-manager from 4 March 1923 until his
sacking on 19 January 1924,
playing in six league matches, scoring once. |
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Club honours |
Football
League Champions 1912-13; FA Cup runners-up
1912-13; |
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Individual honours |
Football
League (three appearances) |
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Distinctions |
None |
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Height/Weight |
5' 7", 11st.
4lbs [1907],
5' 7", 11st.
2lbs [1908], 5' 7", 10st.
8lbs [1913]. |
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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 two who became
358th
players (359) to appear for England. |
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Position(s) |
Outside-left/right |
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First match |
No. 111, 10 February 1912,
Ireland
1
England 6,
a British Championship match at
Dalymount Park, Phibsborough, Dublin, aged 25 years
59 days. |
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Last match |
No. 114,
15 February 1913,
Ireland
2 England
1,
a British Championship match
at
Windsor Park, Donegall Avenue, Belfast, aged 26 years 64 days. |
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Major tournaments |
British Championship 1911-12,
1912-13; |
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Team honours |
British Championship winners 1912-13;
shared 1911-12; |
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Individual honours |
None |
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Distinctions |
Died a day after
Robert Ogilvie |
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Beyond England |
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The most distinguished member of a
noted North-Eastern soccer family, he later became one of the world's
finest fives players. Member of the Royal Garrison Artillery during WW1. -
An English Football Internationalists' Who's Who.
Douglas Lamming (1990). Hatton Press, p.178. |
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