Arthur Berry

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Arthur Berry
Personnel
Surname Arthur Berry
birthday January 3, 1888
place of birth LiverpoolEngland
date of death March 15, 1953
Place of death LiverpoolEngland
position Winger (right)
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
Wrexham AFC
1907-1908 Liverpool FC 3 0(0)
Oxford University
1909 Fulham FC 12 0(0)
1909-1910 Everton FC 27 0(7)
Wrexham AFC
Oxford City
1912 Liverpool FC 1 0(0)
Northern Nomads
Wrexham AFC
National team
Years selection Games (goals)
1908-1913 England amateurs 32 (12)
1909 England 1 0(0)
1 Only league games are given.
1912: Olympic team Great Britain

Arthur Berry (born January 3, 1888 in Liverpool , † March 15, 1953 ibid) was an English football player .

Career

Berry first played rugby and only came into contact with football at Wadham College . He was mostly used as a right winger and played at club level for Northern Nomads , at times between 1907 and 1909 and briefly in the 1912/13 season, he played a total of four games for Liverpool , he also played for Fulham , Everton and Wrexham AFC . In Oxford he played for Oxford University , whose 22nd and last international he was and for Oxford City , with whom he was in the final of the FA Amateur Cup in 1913 , but after a 1-1 in the first final encounter in the replay with 0-1 South Bank was defeated.

With the British Olympic team , Berry was Olympic champion in 1908 and 1912 . Besides Vivian Woodward, he was the only one who was present in both of the English's successes. In total, he played 32 games for the English amateur selection. On February 13, 1909 Berry came to a use for the English senior team . In Bradford he won with his team in the British Home Championship 1908/09 against the selection of Ireland 4-0. During his amateur career, Berry worked as a lawyer in the law firm of his father Edwin , who was president of Liverpool FC between 1904 and 1909. During World War I he served as an adjutant with the Lancashire Fusiliers .

successes

literature

  • Joyce, Michael: Football League Players' Records. 1888 to 1939. 4Edge, 2004, ISBN 1-899468-67-6 , pp. 24 .

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