Arthur Chandler
| Arthur Chandler | ||
| Personnel | ||
|---|---|---|
| Surname | Arthur Clarence Hiller Chandler | |
| birthday | November 27, 1895 | |
| place of birth | Paddington , England | |
| date of death | 1984 | |
| position | Center forward , half forward (left) | |
| Men's | ||
| Years | station | Games (goals) 1 |
| Hampstead Town | ||
| Handley Page | ||
| 1920-1922 | Queens Park Rangers | 78 (16) |
| 1923-1934 | Leicester City | 393 (259) |
| 1935 | Notts County | 10 (6) |
| 1936 | Leicester City | 0 (0) |
| 1 Only league games are given. | ||
Arthur Clarence Hiller Chandler (born November 27, 1895 in Paddington , † 1984 ) was an English football player in the 1920s and 1930s. He was best known for his time at Leicester City , where he holds the goal record with 273 goals.
Athletic career
Chandler first came to the British capital with the Queens Park Rangers for his first professional appearances, scored 18 goals in his competitive games and was then discovered by Peter Hodge , the then coach of Leicester City . Although "Channy", as Arthur Chandler was called, was not a " frontline striker " at "QPR" and was already in the second half of his third decade, he hit his new club straight away. Starting with his debut, he completed 118 games without a break and was a reliable scorer in both the second-rate Second Division and, after being promoted to the top division in 1925 .
With 34 goals each in 1928 and 1929, he improved the club's scoring record, including six goals for a 10-0 win in a league game against Portsmouth FC in October 1928 . Despite these consistently good performances, he was always denied an international match in the English senior team . Instead, he completed games for a North selection against the South, was twice in a game of the "rest" against the English selection and played a game for a team in the Football League against their Scottish counterpart .
At the age of 38, Chandler left the "Foxes" and after a brief interlude at Norwich City returned briefly to Filbert Street in Leicester , where he did not appear in the league before his final career. He recorded a total of 419 competitive games and scored 273 hits; this record number of goals came close to Arthur Rowley in the 1950s with 265 goals, which required only 321 games and thus seriously competed with Chandler for the title of "top scorer in the history of Leicester City".
literature
- Joyce, Michael: Football League Players' Records. 1888 to 1939. 4Edge, 2004, ISBN 1-899468-67-6 , pp. 51 .
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| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Chandler, Arthur |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Chandler, Arthur Clarence Hiller |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | English soccer player |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 27, 1895 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Paddington |
| DATE OF DEATH | 1984 |