| Vivian Woodward | ||
| Personal information | ||
|---|---|---|
| Full name | Vivian John Woodward | |
| Date of birth | 3 June 1879 | |
| Place of birth | Kennington, London, England | |
| Date of death | 31 January 1954 (aged 74) | |
| Place of death | Ealing, England | |
| Playing position | Centre Forward | |
| Senior career1 | ||
| Years | Club | App (Gls)* |
| -1901 1901-1909 1909-1915 |
Clacton Town Tottenham Hotspur Chelsea |
0 (0) 132 (63) 106 (30) |
| National team | ||
| 1903-1911 1906-1914 |
England England Amateurs |
23 (29) 30 (44) |
|
1 Senior club appearances and goals |
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| Olympic medalist | ||
| Medal record | ||
| Men's Football | ||
|---|---|---|
| Gold | London 1908 | Team competition |
| Gold | Stockholm 1912 | Team competition |
Vivian John Woodward (3 June 1879 - 31 January 1954) was an English amateur football player who enjoyed the peak of his career in the late 1900s and early 1910s.
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Club career
He began his career at Clacton Town Football Club and joined Tottenham Hotspur in 1901.[1]
Woodward joined David Calderhead's Chelsea in 1909 and went on to play in a total of 116 games for them and scored a 34 goals[2]. He was their leading scorer in the 1912-13 season when he scored 10 goals[3].
At the start of World War I he enlisted in the British Army and did not play many matches during the 1914-15 season but he was given special leave to join Chelsea at Old Trafford for the Cup Final when Bob Thomson was injured[4]. However Thomson recovered and Woodward refused to play and deny Thomson his chance to play in an FA Cup final as Woodward had not played in any of the qualifying matches[5].
Woodward was injured later in the war and did not return to top class football.
International career
He made his England debut in 1903, scoring twice in a 4-0 defeat of Ireland. Between 1903 and 1911, he won 23 full caps and scored 29 goals, setting an English record that would last until the 1950s. He also played in three unofficial international matches against South Africa in 1910, scoring a further four goals. At the time, England only usually played three matches a season, for the British Home Championship, but two tours to central Europe in 1908 and 1909 netted Woodward 15 goals (over half his total).
He also turned out 44 times for England Amateurs and scored 57 goals, most of them against inferior European teams. In one match against France in 1906, Woodward scored 8 goals in a 15-0 win according to The Times and Sporting Life match reports the following day. FIFA's official record of the match credits him with 4 goals.
Olympic career
Woodward was Great Britain captain at the 1908 and 1912 Olympic Games, both of which Great Britain won.
Military career
He joined the 17th Battalion of the Middlesex Regiment. This was one of the Pals battalion formed during the early stages of World War I. It was known as the "Footballers Battalion" and it included many members of the Woodwards former team Tottenham Hotspur. He served on the western front and was wounded in 1916[6]. He reached the rank of Captain.[7]
Career statistics
| Club performance | League | Cup | League Cup | Continental | Total | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Season | Club | League | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals |
| England | League | FA Cup | League Cup | Europe | Total | |||||||
| 1900-01 | Tottenham Hotspur | 2 | 2 | |||||||||
| 1901-02 | 2 | 0 | ||||||||||
| 1902-03 | 12 | 4 | ||||||||||
| 1903-04 | 17 | 10 | ||||||||||
| 1904-05 | 20 | 7 | ||||||||||
| 1905-06 | 12 | 5 | ||||||||||
| 1906-07 | 20 | 7 | ||||||||||
| 1907-08 | 20 | 10 | ||||||||||
| 1908-09 | Second Division | 27 | 18 | |||||||||
| 1909-10 | Chelsea | First Division | 13 | 5 | ||||||||
| 1910-11 | Second Division | 19 | 6 | |||||||||
| 1911-12 | 14 | 2 | ||||||||||
| 1912-13 | First Division | 27 | 10 | |||||||||
| 1913-14 | 27 | 4 | ||||||||||
| 1914-15 | 6 | 3 | ||||||||||
| Total | England | 238 | 103 | |||||||||
| Career Total | 238 | 103 | ||||||||||
References
- ^ A Romance of football page 29 Retrieved 23 March, 2008 http://www.spurshistory.com/pages/35.htm
- ^ Glanvill, Rick (2006). Chelsea FC: The Official Biography - The Definitive Story of the First 100 Years. Headline Book Publishing Ltd. pp. 410. ISBN 0-7553-1466-2.
- ^ Glanvill, Rick (2006). Chelsea FC: The Official Biography - The Definitive Story of the First 100 Years. Headline Book Publishing Ltd. pp. 380. ISBN 0-7553-1466-2.
- ^ Unknown (1915). Cup Final Programme.
- ^ Glanvill, Rick (2006). Chelsea FC: The Official Biography - The Definitive Story of the First 100 Years. Headline Book Publishing Ltd. p. 181. ISBN 0-7553-1466-2.
- ^ "Soccer Soldiers". National Army Museum. http://www.national-army-museum.ac.uk/exhibitions/football/page2.shtml. Retrieved on 30 January 2008.
- ^ "Issue 31370", London Gazette: p.19, 30 May 1919
- ^ :: National Football Teams ::.. Player - Vivian Woodward
Further reading
- Jacobs, Norman (1 August, 2005). Vivian Woodward: Football's Gentleman. NPI Media Group. ISBN 0752434306.
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