Bert Abbott

Bert Abbott
Personnel
Surname	Herbert Wood Abbott
birthday	4th quarter 1875
place of birth	Bromham ,  England
date of death	October 22, 1911
Place of death	Gibraltar
position	Middle runner
Men's
Years	station	Games (goals) 1
	Ruddington
1894-1897	Nottingham Forest	5 (0)
1897-1899	Sheppey United
1 Only league games are given.

Herbert Wood "Bert" Abbott (* 4th quarter 1875 in Bromham , † October 22, 1911 in Gibraltar ) was an English football player . The middle runner came to five appearances for Nottingham Forest in the Football League First Division in the mid-1890s .

Career

Abbott played for local club Ruddington before he was signed in 1894 as one of nine local players for the reserve team from Nottingham Forest . In one of his first appearances for Forest, in a benefit game in September 1894 against local rivals Notts Olympic , he was one of the "most striking players" in the 9-0 win and showed "promising approaches". The position of center runner in the first team was at Nottingham for the entire decade occupied by the Scottish international John McPherson , so Abbott came only sporadically to appearances in the first team and usually occupied the center runner position in the reserve team. Abbott made his debut on New Years Day 1895 in the Football League First Division in a 0-0 draw at Blackburn Rovers ; On Abbott's performance in front of over 10,000 spectators, a correspondent noted: "Abbott [...] clearly demonstrated that he only needs the opportunity to develop into a very useful player." During the remainder of the season, two more appearances in the runner row followed. In his second outing, a 3-1 win against Stoke , he was praised by the press as “worth his place” and for his “surprisingly intelligent play on the center stage”.

In March 1895 he played in a charity game played in favor of McPherson by local players on the side of the "English" against the "Scots". The English players won the game 3-0, Abbott replaced the England international from Sheffield United , Ernest Needham , at short notice . In mid-April 1895 he was appointed to a selection team of the Notts Football League , which competed against league champions Bulwell United (final score of the rest of the league - Bulwell United 1: 2). In a season review he - like his reserve team colleagues Tom Walker , George Geary and John Hancock - was described as a player who showed "very promising form."

In August 1895 he showed in summer temperatures on the occasion of a 0-1 defeat in a practice game between the first team (“Reds”) and the reserve (“Whites”) of Forest an “intelligent game”. After the game, a large number of the players used the nearby River Trent to cool off. In the 1895/96 season , Abbott only played one more competitive game: in a 4-2 home win on December 28 against Blackburn Rovers in poor weather conditions, he received applause from the 5,000 spectators for his “excellent work” and was in the guest press he praised for the Blackburn striker Peter Turnbull " hors de combat to have left." Also in his fifth and last appearance in the Football League, a 2-2 draw in October 1897 against The Wednesday , the press attested him to have been "brilliant form" and an "extremely useful substitute" for McPherson.

At the end of August 1897 Abbott was signed for a transfer fee of £ 20 from the Southern League club Sheppey United in order to be able to afford a "middle runner of class", club supporters contributed the transfer fee. A short time before, his teammate Joshua Hollis had already switched to Sheppey United. At Sheppey Abbott counted in the sequence in the position of center runner to the core team, at the end of March 1899 his upper-class football career ended because he was transferred to the naval station on Malta as part of his service in the Royal Navy . In October 1911, several newspapers reported that Abbott drowned in an accident at the marine station on Gibraltar at the age of 35 .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Life data according to the English National Football Archive (ENFA) , accessed on May 1, 2018
2. ↑ ^{a b} NOTTINGHAM AND GENERAL. . In: Nottingham Evening Post , September 8, 1894, p. 2.  (paid link)
3. ↑ ^{a b} Garth Dykes: Nottingham Forest FC Who's Who 1892-1939 . SoccerData, Nottingham 2017, ISBN 978-1-911376-07-1 , pp. 5 .
4. ↑ A DRAW AT BLACKBURN. . In: Nottinghamshire Guardian , January 5, 1895, p. 3.  (paid link)
5. ↑ LACE v. POTTERY. . In: Athletic News , February 25, 1895, p. 4.  (link with costs)
6. ↑ J. McPHERSON'S BENEFIT MATCH. . In: Nottingham Evening Post , March 21, 1895, p. 3.  (paid link)
7. ↑ NOTTS. FOOTBALL LEAGUE. . In: Nottingham Evening Post , April 18, 1895, p. 3.  (paid link)
8. ↑ NOTTS. LEAGUE. . In: Nottingham Journal , April 22, 1895, p. 3.  (link with costs)
9. ↑ THE FOOTBALL SEASON OF 1894-5. FOREST AND NOTTS. REVIEWS. . In: Nottinghamshire Guardian , May 4, 1895, p. 3.  (paid link)
10. ↑ NOTTS. FOREST FC PRACTICE. . In: Nottingham Evening Post , August 20, 1895, p. 4.  (paid link)
11. ↑ NOTTS. FOREST v. BLACKBURN ROVERS. . In: Nottingham Evening Post , December 28, 1895, p. 3.  (paid link)
12. ↑ NOTES FROM BLACKBURN. . In: Preston Herald , January 1, 1896, p. 4.  (paid link)
13. ^ "TWO-ALL" AT NOTTINGHAM. . In: Athletic News , November 2, 1896, p. 5.  (link with costs)
14. ↑ SPORTS AND PASTIMES. . In: Nottinghamshire Guardian , November 7, 1896, p. 3.  (paid link)
15. ↑ SHEPPEY UNITED CLUB. . In: Sporting Life , September 1, 1897, p. 2.  (link with costs)
16. ↑ SHEPPEY UNITED FOOTBALL CLUB. . In: Sporting Life , 23 August 1897, p. 7.  (link with costs)
17. ↑ SPORTING NOTES. . In: Nottingham Evening Post , March 9, 1899, p. 3.  (paid link)
18. ↑ FOOTBALL PARS. . In: Leicester Daily Mercury , October 25, 1911, p. 7.  (paid link)
19. ↑ DOCKYARD FITTER'S FATAL DIVE. . In: Western Morning News , October 30, 1911, p. 7.  (paid link)
20. ↑ probatesearch.service.gov.uk: will entry from 1912 , accessed on January 7, 2020