Eddie King (soccer player, 1886)

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Eddie King
Personnel
Surname Edward Burn King
birthday December 5, 1886
place of birth Blyth ,  England
position External rotor (right)
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
0000-1910 South Shields Adelaide
1910-1912 Leyton FC
1912-1914 Woolwich Arsenal 11 (0)
1914-1916 Clapton Orient 17 (0)
1 Only league games are given.

Edward Burn "Eddie" King (born December 5, 1886 in Blyth ; † unknown) was an English football player .

Career

King moved in 1910 together with his teammate W. Simpson from South Shields Adelaide from the North Eastern League to Leyton FC in the Southern League . For Leyton he ran the following two seasons as a striker or outside runner . In the 1910/11 season, the team finished seventh in the league and qualified for the first main round of the FA Cup , in which they lost 2-0 at home after a 0-0 defeat at the later semi-finalists FC Chelsea in the replay. In both cup games King had formed the runner row with Kenneth Hunt and James Gray . In the 1911/12 season they qualified again for the first main round of the competition and were defeated by Liverpool FC just 0: 1, in the league, however, they placed last in the table, the financially troubled club left Southern for the following season League. During the 1912 season break, King moved within London together with his teammates George Payne and George Burrell to the Football League First Division at Woolwich Arsenal .

At Arsenal he moved to the first team in November 1912 and took over the position of right runner from Matt Thomson , his debut in the English top division was King against West Bromwich Albion . He remained a regular player until the beginning of February, with none of his twelve missions winning. After a 4-1 defeat at the beginning of February 1913 in the FA Cup against Liverpool , he lost his place in the team and was only used one more time during the rest of the season. At the end of the season, the club went into the Second Division from, in the course of the second division season 1913-14 were George Grant , George Jobey and Thomson on the right rotor position of coach George Morrell preference. King instead played for the reserve team, for whom he played over 50 games (2 goals) during his two-year stay.

During the summer break of 1914, he moved again within London to Arsenal's second division rival Clapton Orient . There he played as a right runner in eleven league games until November 1914, before being replaced by Jack Forrest . It was not until the spring of 1915 that King made six league appearances again, this time in the storm row (right half-forward and center forward), but remained without a goal of his own. The continuation of the football game after Great Britain entered the First World War in August 1914 had caused some outraged comments in the press and King was one of the first 35 professional footballers, including ten players from Orient, who joined the Footballers' Battalion on December 15, 1914 . In the war-related replacement competitions held from 1915 onwards, he was used several times for Orient until the end of 1916. King served in the rank of private during the war and returned home in December 1917 after being wounded in action. After the war, he made his living as a miner in his hometown of Blyth.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ SOUTH SHIELDS CLUB. . In: Newcastle Journal , July 28, 1910, p. 9.  (paid link)
  2. ^ Movements of Players. . In: Dundee Evening Telegraph , July 10, 1912, p. 5.  (paid link)
  3. ↑ SPORTS AND PASTIMES. . In: Lakes Herald , July 12, 1912, p. 2.  (link subject to charge)
  4. ↑ Jeff Harris: Arsenal Who's Who . Independent UK Sports Publications, London 1995, ISBN 1-899429-03-4 , pp. 31 .
  5. ^ Neilson N. Kaufman and Alan E. Ravenhill: Leyton Orient: The Complete Record . Breedon Books, Derby 2006, ISBN 1-85983-480-9 , pp. 324 f .
  6. ↑ Andrew Riddoch, John Kemp: When the Whistle Blows: The Story of the Footballers' Battalion in the Great War . CreateSpace Independent Publishing, 2015, ISBN 978-1-5031-4518-4 , pp. 35 .
  7. ↑ a b leytonorient.com: OUR HER-O'S: Part three of Orient's WW1 Heroes (Nov. 8, 2018) , accessed on June 16, 2019
personal data
SURNAME King, Eddie
ALTERNATIVE NAMES King, Edward Burn
BRIEF DESCRIPTION English soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH December 5, 1886
PLACE OF BIRTH Blyth
DATE OF DEATH 20th century