Edward Anderson (football player, 1883)

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Edward Anderson
Personnel
Surname Edward Totty Anderson
birthday December 21, 1883
place of birth Newcastle upon Tyne ,  England
date of death 1975
position Storm
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
Willington Athletic
1905-1906 Sheffield United 1 (0)
1906-1908 Queens Park Rangers 19 (3)
1 Only league games are given.

Edward Totty Anderson (born December 21, 1883 in Newcastle upon Tyne , † 1975 ) was an English football player .

Career

Anderson was active as a center forward for Willington Athletic in the Northern Alliance before he, like his teammate Charles Johnson , moved to Sheffield United in the Football League First Division in the summer of 1905 , which after the departure of reserve center forward Frank Edgley to Fulham FC Needed. In Sheffield in the 1905/06 season mostly the international Arthur Brown occupied the center forward position. Anderson made his debut on February 17, 1906 against Derby County , but remained in the 1-0 win without a goal and was subsequently no longer considered. The following season Anderson joined the Queens Park Rangers club, playing in the Southern League , and scored on his debut against Luton Town (final score 1-1). After four games in the center forward position, he was also repeatedly used as a left and right half- forward . In the 1906/07 season he made 18 appearances (3 goals) - the team finished the season in third from last place - he only belonged to the squad once again in the following season, when the Rangers won the championship in the Southern League secured.

Notes / individual evidence

  1. ↑ Life data according to the English National Football Archive (ENFA) , accessed on January 7, 2020
  2. ↑ In some publications (including Marks: Heroes in Hoops; Harris: Arsenal Who's Who and Litster: A record of pre-war Scottish League players v2) Anderson and the Scottish player of the same name Edward Anderson (1879-1952) are rated as one person. Alex White (The Men Who Made Fulham Football Club) contradicts this, u. a. Anderson finds mention in a game report by Willington in February 1904 (see game report in the Jarrow Express of February 12, 1904), in the same period an Edward Anderson also played games at Fulham.
  3. ↑ FOOTBALL. THE ASSOCIATION GAME. COMING SEASON'S PROSPECTS. . In: Manchester Courier and Lancashire General Advertiser , August 12, 1905, p. 8.  (paid link)
  4. ↑ A CENTER FORWARD FOR SHEFFIELD UNITED. . In: Sheffield Daily Telegraph , May 17, 1905, p. 12.  (paid link)
  5. ↑ cf. Denis Clarebrough, Andrew Kirkham: Sheffield United - The Complete Record . DB Publishing, Derby 2012, ISBN 978-1-78091-019-2 , pp. 300 f .
  6. ↑ Denis Clarebrough, Andrew Kirkham: Sheffield United Football Club Who's Who . Hallamshire Press, Trowbridge 2008, ISBN 978-1-874718-69-7 , pp. 33 .
  7. ↑ cf. Gordon Macey: Queen's Park Rangers - The Complete Record . Breedon Books, 2009, ISBN 978-1-85983-714-6 , pp. 270 f .
personal data
SURNAME Anderson, Edward
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Anderson, Edward Totty (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION English soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH December 21, 1883
PLACE OF BIRTH Newcastle upon Tyne
DATE OF DEATH 1975