Ben Bull

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Ben Bull
Personnel
Surname Benjamin Henry Bull
birthday January 3, 1872
place of birth Spondon ,  England
date of death 4th quarter 1951
Place of death Derby ,  England
position Winger (left, right)
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
1895 Loughborough FC 22 (4)
1895-1896 Liverpool FC 1 (1)
1897 Oldham County
1897–? Reading FC
1 Only league games are given.

Benjamin Henry "Ben" Bull (born January 3, 1872 in Spondon , † 4th quarter 1951 in Derby ) was an English football player .

Career

Bull made a living as a caster before joining the Leicestershire Regiment in 1892 . When he played a friendly match against Loughborough FC in December 1894 with their football team , he impressed those in charge of the football club so much that he was signed a little later. Bull played 15 games (3 goals) in the Midland League in the second half of the 1894/95 season , when Loughborough won the championship superiorly and was accepted into the Football League Second Division a little later . There he played with Loughborough the club's first game in the new division (0-3 against Newcastle United ) and came in the following weeks mostly as a left winger to another six league and four cup appearances . Bull's development took a further step when he was nominated by the Leicestershire Football Association along with teammates Hugh Monteith , George Swift , Charles Dickson and Tom Cotterill for a game against Cambridge University AFC and on December 1, 1895 for a fee of £ 40 was signed by league rivals Liverpool FC .

There he came to the end of the season, when Liverpool won the championship of the Second Division 1895/96 , only for one use. As a replacement for Malcolm McVean , Bull played on January 25, 1896 in a 6-1 win over Lincoln City on the right wing position and scored the second goal for Liverpool. In early 1897 he was transferred to the Lancashire Combination to Oldham County , for the 1897/98 season he joined Reading FC in the Southern League . After the end of his football career, Bull worked as a painter and served with the Imperial Yeomanry during the Second Boer War in South Africa , where he was retired in 1901 for medical reasons.

literature

  • Michael Joyce: Football League Players' Records 1888 to 1939 . 2nd revised edition. SoccerData, Nottingham 2004, ISBN 1-899468-67-6 , pp. 42 .
  • Doug Lamming: Who's Who of Liverpool 1892–1989 . Breedon Books, Derby 1989, ISBN 0-907969-55-0 , pp. 26 .
  • Paul Taylor: The Luffs Who's Who - The Players of Loughborough Athletic and Football Club 1889 to 1900 . SoccerData, Nottingham 2014, ISBN 978-1-905891-85-6 , pp. 13 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Leicestershire v. Cambridge University . In: Leicester Chronicle , October 19, 1895, p. 5.  (paid link)
  2. ↑ FOOTBALL. . In: Lancashire Evening Post , January 16, 1897, p. 4.  (paid link)
  3. ↑ CHORLEY. . In: Lancashire Evening Post , January 30, 1897, p. 2.  (paid link)
  4. ↑ READING FOOTBALL CLUB. . In: Sporting Life , August 25, 1897, p. 2.  (link subject to charge)
  5. ↑ In publications, Gravesend United is named as Bulls Station to Liverpool . The local player was called Albert Bull, was an outside runner and only switched to Reading in 1900. See THE FORTHCOMING FOOTBALL SEASON. . In: Berkshire Chronicle , Aug 25, 1900, p. 7. 
personal data
SURNAME Bull, Ben
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bull, Benjamin Henry (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION English soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH January 3, 1872
PLACE OF BIRTH Spondon
DATE OF DEATH between October 1951 and December 1951
Place of death Derby (Derbyshire)