Anthony Cooper

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Anthony Cooper
Personnel
Surname Anthony Routledge
birthday April 7, 1893
place of birth Derby or Sheffield ,  England
date of death November 12, 1974
Place of death Chesterfield ,  England
position Half-forward (left)
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
1919-1920 The Wednesday 1 (0)
1920-1921 Chesterfield Municipal 1 (0)
1921-1922 Sutton Town
1922– Clay Cross Town
1 Only league games are given.

Anthony "Tony" Cooper (actually Anthony Routledge , born April 7, 1893 in Derby or Sheffield , † November 12, 1974 in Chesterfield ) was an English football player .

Career

Cooper played locally before joining first division club The Wednesday during the break of the season in May 1919 . Regarding his previous club stations there are different details; he is said to have been active for Beighton FC , Birmingham and Hardwick Colliery , Hetherington Colliery , Hartington Colliery or Chesterfield United and Hardwick Colliery . Although he had no regular place in the reserve team of Wednesday in the Midland League , he surprisingly made his debut on September 20, 1919 in an away game against Notts County (1: 3). It was Cooper's only use when the club was relegated from the First Division for the first time in its club history.

Whether Cooper will join Barnsley FC for the following season, as claimed in several publications, is uncertain.In the early phase of the 1920/21 season he appeared twice for the Midland League club Chesterfield Municipal , and he was in at the start of the season a charity match between last year's champions and vice-champions against the reserves of Sheffield United as a goal scorer (final score 2: 2); in the further course of the season he appeared regularly in Chesterfields reserve team. As a result, Cooper was active for Sutton Town and Clay Cross Town, where he had to fight increasingly with a foot injury at the latter club.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c lt. The English National Football Archive (ENFA) , accessed September 18, 2016
  2. ^ A b c Jason Dickinson, John Brodie: The Wednesday Boys: A Definitive Who's Who of Sheffield Wednesday Football Club 1880–2005 . Pickard Communication, Sheffield 2005, ISBN 978-0-9547264-9-2 , pp. 70 .
  3. ↑ a b Michael Joyce: Football League Players' Records 1888 to 1939 . 2nd revised edition. SoccerData, Nottingham 2004, ISBN 1-899468-67-6 , pp. 60 .
  4. ↑ a b c Stuart Basson: Lucky Whites and Spireites: Who's Who Chesterfield FC Yore Publications, Harefield 1998, ISBN 978-1-874427-03-2 , pp. 48 .
  5. ↑ WEEK-END TEAMS . In: Sheffield Independent , September 18, 1919, p. 6.  (paid link)
  6. ↑ cfchistory.com: Chesterfield FC, 1920-1 , accessed January 21, 2019 ( Microsoft Excel )
  7. ↑ ODDS AND ENDS. . In: Derbyshire Courier , August 13, 1921, p. 8.  (link with costs)
  8. ↑ SUTTON TOWN. . In: Nottingham Journal , August 13, 1921, p. 6.  (paid link)
  9. ↑ READY FOR THE KICK-OFF. . In: Sheffield Independent , August 24, 1922, p. 6.  (paid link)
  10. ↑ DERBYSHIRE LEAGUE CHAMPIONS AT CLAY CROSS. . In: Derbyshire Times and Chesterfield Herald , February 23, 1924, p. 10.  (paid link)
  11. ↑ SPORTS AND PASTIMES. . In: Derbyshire Times and Chesterfield Herald , December 20, 1924, p. 11.  (paid link)
personal data
SURNAME Cooper, Anthony
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Routledge, Anthony (real name); Cooper, Tony
BRIEF DESCRIPTION English soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH April 7, 1893
PLACE OF BIRTH Derby (Derbyshire) or Sheffield
DATE OF DEATH November 12, 1974
Place of death Chesterfield (Derbyshire)