Edward Anderson (football player, 1879)

Edward Anderson
Personnel
birthday	January 27, 1879
place of birth	Beith ,  Scotland
date of death	April 12, 1954
Place of death	Beith ,  Scotland
position	Winger (left)
Men's
Years	station	Games (goals) 1
	Beith Thistle
	FC Beith
1900	FC St. Mirren
1900-1902	FC Beith
1902-1903	FC St. Mirren	4 (0)
1903-1904	Woolwich Arsenal	2 (0)
1904	Fulham FC	6 (0)
1904–	FC Beith
1 Only league games are given.

Edward Anderson (born January 27, 1879 in Beith , † April 12, 1954 ibid) was a Scottish football player .

Career

Anderson played in his hometown first for Beith Thistle and from 1899 for FC Beith before joining the nearby FC St. Mirren for the first time in January 1900 . As a result he played again for FC Beith (league game operation in the North Ayrshire League ), in the 1902/03 season he was again active for St. Mirren and played four games for the club in Scottish Division One .

In November 1903 Anderson moved to the south of England to the capital club Woolwich Arsenal . For Woolwich Arsenal it was used for the first time as part of a friendly on November 30, 1903 against an army team in favor of the victims of a Lyddit explosion in a munitions factory in June 1903 . His career in the Football League Second Division consisted of two operations within 24 hours at the beginning of 1904. First, he made his debut on New Year Estag 1904 with a goalless draw against Stockport County on the left winger position to replace Bill Linward , just one day later he was killed in a Another away game at Blackpool FC (final score 2: 2) used again. Anderson's departure only a few days later to Fulham FC, who played in the Southern League , was also a topic at the annual general meeting of Woolwich Arsenal and caused critical questions from chairman Jack Humble . It was explained that the directors decided to transfer Anderson because, in the opinion of manager Harry Bradshaw, he was no better than the two existing players (note: Linward and Walter Busby ). Nevertheless, Arsenal had assured Fulham that Anderson would not be used in the upcoming clash in the FA Cup .

At Fulham, Anderson, who was considered a quick and agile player, took over the position of left winger from Everard Lawrence , another former Woolwich player , in late January . His debut game against Kettering had to be abandoned at halftime due to a cloud of fog which, according to a reporter for the Athletic News, had the stamina of Alfred Shrubb . After six appearances in the Southern League, he lost his place on the team to Hugh McQueen in mid-March and only made two appearances in the London League (consolation goal in a 5-1 defeat by Tottenham Hotspur ). The following season Harry Bradshaw was the new manager at Fulham and Anderson was among a large number of players sorted out during the break.

He subsequently returned to Scotland and was again active for FC Beith from 1904. With the club he won the championship of the Scottish Combination in 1904/05 and made headlines with the team in cup competitions. In the Scottish FA Cup 1904/05 , the team moved into the quarter-finals after a 3-1 first round win in the replay against first division club FC Kilmarnock and a 4-0 against FC Cowdenbeath , in which they lost 5-1 to the Glasgow Rangers at Ibrox Park . In December 1905 Anderson stood with Beith in the final of the Scottish Qualifying Cup , the game against Leith Athletic ended in front of 10,000 spectators at Shawfield Stadium with a 2-0 defeat.

Anderson died in Beith in 1954; his death certificate stated that the profession was wood carver .

Notes / individual evidence

1. ↑ only missions in the Southern League
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 English player of the same name Edward Anderson (1883-1975) are rated as one person. Alex White (The Men Who Made Fulham Football Club) contradicts this, u. a. Anderson is also mentioned in a match report by Beith in March 1905 (see match report in the Ardrossan and Saltcoats Herald of March 3, 1905), in the same period an Edward Anderson also played at Sheffield games.
3. ↑ Dave Twydell: Rejected FC Of Scotland. Volume 2: Glasgow & District . Yore Publications, Harefield 1993, ISBN 1-874427-30-5 , pp. 60 .
4. ↑ cf. John Litster: A record of pre-war Scottish League players v2 (CD Rom), PM Publications, Norwich 2012
5. ↑ WELL-KNOWN SCOTTISH PLAYER FOR ENGLAND. . In: Dundee Evening Post , November 24, 1903, p. 3.  (paid link)
6. ↑ ASSOCIATION. WOOLWICH ARSENAL v. TO ARMY TEAM. . In: Sporting Life , November 28, 1903, p. 8.  (link subject to charge)
7. ↑ thearsenalhistory.com: ARSENAL FIRST TEAM LINE-UPS , accessed December 15, 2017
8. ↑ SPORTING NOTES. . In: Nottingham Evening Post , January 12, 1904, p. 6.  (paid link)
9. ↑ ARSENAL FC ANNUAL MEETING. . In: Woolwich Gazette , January 22, 1904, p. 5.  (paid link)
10. ↑ THE GALLANT "REDS." . In: Kentish Independent , January 22, 1904, p. 3.  (paid link)
11. ↑ REFEREE'S LAST LOOK ROUND. . In: Woolwich Gazette , January 15, 1904, p. 4.  (paid link)
12. ↑ ^{a b c} Alex White: The Men Who Made Fulham Football Club . Tempus Publishing Ltd, Stroud 2002, ISBN 978-0-7524-2423-1 , pp. 12 .
13. ↑ FULHAM FOG BOUND. . In: Athletic News , January 25, 1904, p. 6.  (link with costs)
14. ↑ cf. Dennis Turner: Fulham - The Complete Record . Breedon Books, Derby 2007, ISBN 978-1-85983-566-1 , pp. 260 f .
15. ↑ BEITH. LOCAL NOTES. . In: Ardrossan and Saltcoats Herald , July 15, 1904, p. 5.  (paid link)
16. ↑ Dave Twydell: Rejected FC Of Scotland. Volume 2: Glasgow & District . Yore Publications, Harefield 1993, ISBN 1-874427-30-5 , pp. 74 f .
17. ↑ NOTES FROM BEITH. . In: Ardrossan and Saltcoats Herald , March 3, 1905, p. 7.  (paid link)
18. ↑ QUALIFYING CUP FINAL. . In: Edinburgh Evening News , December 2, 1905, p. 5.  (paid link)