Edgar Chadwick

Edgar Chadwick
Personnel
Surname	Edgar Wallace Chadwick
birthday	June 14, 1869
place of birth	Blackburn ,  England
date of death	February 14, 1942
Place of death	Blackburn ,  England
position	Half-forward (left)
Men's
Years	station	Games (goals) 1
1884-1886	Little dots
1886-1887	Blackburn Olympic
1887-1888	Blackburn Rovers
1888-1899	Everton FC	270 (97)
1899-1900	Burnley FC	31 (10)
1900-1902	Southampton FC	52 (18)
1902-1904	Liverpool FC	43 0(7)
1904-1905	Blackpool FC	34 0(8)
1905-1906	Glossop North End	35 0(5)
1906-1908	FC Darwen
National team
Years	selection	Games (goals)
1891-1897	England	7 0(3)
Stations as a trainer
Years	station
1908-1913	Netherlands
	Sparta Rotterdam
1 Only league games are given.

Edgar Wallace Chadwick (born June 14, 1869 in Blackburn , † February 14, 1942 ibid) was an English football player and coach. After winning the English championship in 1891 with Everton as a player, he later became known primarily as the Netherlands' bond coach . He led the selection at the Olympic Games in 1908 and 1912 to a bronze medal.

Player career

Born in Blackburn, Edgar Chadwick began playing football at the age of 15 with the Little Dots. In 1886 he moved to Blackburn Olympic . Olympic had won the FA Cup in 1883 , but by the mid-1880s the Blackburn Rovers were becoming the dominant club in town and so Chadwick also went local rivals after just one season. With the Rovers he met Olympic in the 2nd round of the FA Cup 1887/88 and scored a hit against his former club in the 5-1 win. In total, he came to four cup appearances and three goals this season, only in the quarterfinals they finally failed at Derby Junction . After a year he left Blackburn Rovers and moved to the up-and-coming Everton FC in July 1888 .

Just in time for the start of the Football League's game operations in the 1888/89 season, he was immediately a regular in the "Toffees" team. There he won after an eighth place in the first season in 1890 the runner-up. The short left inner striker contributed nine goals. He made his first division debut on September 8, 1888 in a 2-1 home win over FC Accrington, his first league goal he scored a week later on September 15, 1888 in a 2-1 home win over Notts County. He scored one more goal in the 1890/91 season and together with his storm colleagues Fred Geary (20 goals) and Alf Milward (12 goals), Chadwick led the Liverpool club to its first English championship in club history. Chadwick was nicknamed "Hooky" at the time, referring to his frequently used trick of running parallel to the opposing goal line towards the goalkeeper, tying him to the short post and then using a "hook" to shoot the ball next to the opposite post to shoot in the goal.

Although the English championship remained the only title in Edgar Chadwick's playing career in 1891, he was always a driving force in English football with Everton FC in the further 1890s. After a 0-1 final defeat in the FA Cup in 1893 against Wolverhampton Wanderers at the Fallowfield Stadium in Manchester , another English runner-up followed in 1895. Two more years later, Chadwick was a defeated FA Cup finalist for the second time after a 3-2 draw against Aston Villa at the Crystal Palace National Sports Center . As a key player of Everton FC, his talent was not hidden nationally and so he was called up for a game of the English national team on March 7, 1891 in the British Home Championship against Wales at the side of his teammate Alf Milward. After the 4-1 win, in which both Chadwick and Milward met, followed by 1897 six more missions and two goals. Chadwick spent eleven years at Everton and scored 97 goals in his 270 league appearances. In addition, he scored another 13 goals in 30 FA Cup games and with that 110 competitive goals he is the eighth most successful goalscorer of the "Blues" to this day. He is also considered the first "legend" in the history of the club.

In May 1899, Chadwick finally moved to Burnley FC . Although he became the club's top scorer with ten goals and scored three times in a 3-1 win against Glossop North End , he could not prevent the club's relegation to the second division and so it drew him in August 1900 in the Southern League , where he played again with Alf Milward on the left at Southampton FC . Right away both scored 26 goals together and the "Saints" won the "Southern Championship". The second season was also a success for Chadwick at Southampton FC, when the club surprisingly - as not a participant of the Football League - reached the FA Cup final for the second time after 1900 and was only defeated there after a replay Sheffield United . In addition to the partnership with Milward, it was also noteworthy that he played in Southampton with his cousin Arthur Chadwick , who had also become an England international in 1900.

Before Chadwick could return to the north of England in May 1902 in the Football League to play for Liverpool FC , he had to pay £ 35 to his old club Burnley FC, for which was still registered. Successes were largely absent there and after he scored seven goals in 29 league games in the first season, he came to only fourteen games in the following season without being able to add another goal. There were also two first round defeats in the FA Cup. His last first division game he played on December 28, 1903 in the 2: 4 away defeat against Wolverhampton Wanderers. In 1904 he was hired for a season at Blackpool FC . His active career was then after another year at Glossop North End outside the Football League at Darwen FC between 1906 and 1908.

Coaching career

After the end of his playing career, Chadwick moved to mainland Europe, where he briefly worked as a coach in Germany before he worked for various clubs in the Netherlands - especially in The Hague and Haarlem . Eventually, Chadwick was hired to coach the Dutch national team to prepare them for the upcoming Olympic football tournament in London . Since the quarter-final opponent Hungary was removed from the field after the draw, the Chadwick selection moved into the semifinals without a fight, where they lost 4-0 to a selection by the United Kingdom . With the 2-0 win against Sweden in the game for third place, the Chadwick selection won the bronze medal and was able to celebrate the first international success in the history of Dutch football.

Chadwick also sat in the Dutch coaching bench at the 1912 Olympics in Stockholm . In the football tournament, to which eleven countries have already competed, the selection first defeated Sweden and then Austria , before the Danish team then proved to be too powerful in the semi-finals in the 1: 4 defeat. With a clear 9-0 win against Finland , in which Jan Vos scored five goals, the Chadwick team finally “defended” the bronze medal they had won four years earlier. The clear progress made by the Dutch selection under Chadwick became clear on March 24, 1913 at the latest, when they defeated an English amateur selection 2-1 for the first time in a friendly match after two goals from Huug de Groot, in the person of the renowned Vivian Woodward Recognized (the English team ultimately returned the favor in November 1913 with a narrow 2-1 second leg win). Overall, Chadwick oversaw the Dutch selection in 24 games and won 14 of these encounters, most of which were played against neighboring Belgium .

Chadwick won the Dutch championship in 1915 as coach of Sparta Rotterdam and returned to Blackburn after the First World War to pursue his original profession as a baker. In December 1923, he was in the selection of the new coach of Blackpool FC , who instead chose Major Frank Buckley .

successes

• English champion: 1891 (as a player)
• Southern League champions: 1901 (as a player)
• Olympic bronze medalist: 1908, 1912 (as a coach)
• Dutch champion: 1915 (as a coach)

literature

• Ian Ross, Gordon Smailes: Everton. A Complete Record 1878-1985. Breedon, Derby 1985, ISBN 0-907969-10-0 .
• Brian Pead: Liverpool. A Complete Record 1892-1988. 2nd edition. Breedon, Derby 1988, ISBN 0-907969-44-5 (Breedon Books Sport).

Web links

• Everton FC profile page
• Profile page on lfchistory.net
• Profile page on englandfootballonline.com