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Tom
Wilson |
Huddersfield
Town AFC
1 appearance,
0 goals
P 1 W 0 D
0 L 1 F 1: A 5
0% successful
1921-28
captain: none
minutes played: 90 |
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Timeline |
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Thomas Wilson |
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Birth |
16 April 1896 in California Street, Seaham, County Durham
[registered in Easington, June 1896].
California Street was
stated in his obituary in the Sunderland Echo |
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According to the 1901
census, Thomas is the fifth of six children to John and Dorothy Jane (née
Smith). They
live at 59 Doctor Street in Seaham. His father is a coal mine hewer. |
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According to the 1911
census, Thomas, who has two more younger brothers, is a coal mine
flat-lad, at the same mine his father is a hewer. He is one of ten, and
three of his siblings had died before this return. They live at 11
California Street in New Seaham. |
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According to the 1921 census,
Thomas is now a professional footballer (for Huddersfield Town FC) and is
the oldest of now three sons still living at home with their parents still
at 11 California Street. |
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Marriage |
to Elsie Jane Armstrong Bulmer
[registered in Easington, June 1924]. They
had three children, all sons, Thomas Derek (b.3 November 1925), Gordon Bulmer (b.25
July 1931) and
Robert Neil (b.4 February 1934). |
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According to the 1939
register, Thomas, a factory policeman, is married to Elsie J.A.., they live
at 9 Lynton Avenue, Huddersfield, with their three children. |
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Death |
2 February 1948,
died at his home at 102 Vernon Way in Gawber, Barnsley, aged
51 years 292 days
[registered in Staincross, March 1948], of a heart-attack.
On 3 May 1948, a benefit match was played between Huddersfield Town AFC
and Barnsley FC for the dependents of Tom Wilson, Huddersfield won 2-0. |
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Funeral |
5 February 1948 |
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Probate |
"WILSON
Thomas of 102 Vernon Way Barnsley Yorkshire
died 2 February 1948 Probate
Wakefield 17 April to Elsie Jane Armstrong Wilson widow and Mark Wilson police constable
Effects £1933 0s. 10d." |
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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 football for Sunderland
Schools and played for the Seaham Colliery works team. He was with
Sunderland AFC during 1913-14 but was allowed to leave because he was
deemed overweight, having made just eight league outings.
Wilson rejoined Seaham Colliery FC straight after the war. Huddersfield
Town AFC signed Wilson in June 1919. He remained at Leeds Road, becoming
club captain, making 448 league appearances and scoring four
goals, until his transfer to Blackpool FC on 11 November 1931, and
he retired at the end of that season, having made eighteen
appearances. |
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Club honours |
Football League Division Two
runners-up 1919-20; Champions 1923-24, 1924-25, 1925-26,
runners-up 1926-27, 1927-28; FA Cup runners-up 1919-20, 1927-28, 1929-30, winners
1921-22; FA Charity Shield winners 1922; |
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Individual honours |
Football League (three
appearances) |
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Distinctions |
None |
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Height/Weight |
5'
10½",
12st.
7lbs [1928], another souce: 5'
11½",
12st.
3lbs [1928 & 1929]. |
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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 |
527th
player to appear for England. |
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Position(s) |
Centre-half |
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Only match |
No. 159, 31 March 1928, England 1 Scotland 5,
a British Championship match at Empire Stadium, Wembley, London, aged
31 years
350 days. |
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Major tournaments |
British Championship
1927-28; |
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Team honours |
None |
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Individual honours |
None |
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Distinctions |
None |
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Beyond England |
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Upon his retirement from the football
pitch, Wilson took up the vacant role of assistant trainer back at
Huddersfield Town FC, and he remained in this capacity until the war. He
continued to help on the training ground while working for British Dyes.
After which, in 1945, he was appointed as the trainer at Barnsley FC,
which is where he was serving when he died. -
An English Football Internationalists' Who's Who.
Douglas Lamming (1990). Hatton Press, p.273. |
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Tom Wilson - Career Statistics |
| Squads |
Apps |
comp. apps |
Mins. |
Goals |
goals ave.min |
comp. goals |
Capt. |
Disc. |
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3 |
1 |
1 |
90 |
0 |
0 min |
0 |
none |
none |
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minutes are an approximation, due to the fact that many matches rarely stick to exactly ninety minutes long, allowing time for injuries and errors. |
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Tom Wilson
- Match Record - All Matches - By
Type of Match |
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Type |
P |
W |
D |
L |
F |
A |
GD |
FTS
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CS |
FAv |
AAv |
Pts% |
W/L |
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Home
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British Championship |
1 |
0 |
0 |
1 |
1 |
5 |
-4 |
0 |
0 |
1.00 |
5.00 |
0.00 |
-1 |
| All |
1 |
0 |
0 |
1 |
1 |
5 |
-4 |
0 |
0 |
1.00 |
5.00 |
0.00 |
-1 |
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Tom Wilson
- Match Record - Tournament Matches |
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British Championship Competition |
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Type |
P |
W |
D |
L |
F |
A |
GD |
FTS |
CS |
FAv |
AAv |
Pts% |
W/L |
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BC 1927-28 |
1 |
0 |
0 |
1 |
1 |
5 |
-4 |
0 |
0 |
1.00 |
5.00 |
0.00 |
-1 |
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BC
All |
1 |
0 |
0 |
1 |
1 |
5 |
-4 |
0 |
0 |
1.00 |
5.00 |
0.00 |
-1 |
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All Competition |
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Type |
P |
W |
D |
L |
F |
A |
GD |
FTS |
CS |
FAv |
AAv |
Pts% |
W/L |
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BC |
1 |
0 |
0 |
1 |
1 |
5 |
-4 |
0 |
0 |
1.00 |
5.00 |
0.00 |
-1 |
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All |
1 |
0 |
0 |
1 |
1 |
5 |
-4 |
0 |
0 |
1.00 |
5.00 |
0.00 |
-1 |
Tom
Wilson
- Match History
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Club:
Huddersfield Town A.F.C.
- one full appearance (90 min) |
F.A. International Selection Committee - one full appearance (90 min)x
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Notes
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