George Anderson (football player, 1893)

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George Anderson
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Personnel
Surname George Walter Anderson
birthday 1st quarter 1893
place of birth Cheetham ,  England
date of death October 1931
Place of death Elk City , Oklahoma ,  United States
position Center Forward
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
Salford United
1910-1911 Bury FC 3 0(0)
1911-1918 Manchester United 80 (37)
1 Only league games are given.

George Walter Anderson (* 1st quarter 1893 in Cheetham , Manchester , † October 1931 in Elk City ) was an English football player .

Career

Anderson won the North Salford League and the Haworth Cup with Salford United as a teenager , before turning professional at Bury FC in March 1910 . In the following months he came for Bury on a total of three appearances in the Football League First Division , before moving to reigning champions Manchester United in September 1911 for £ 50 transfer fee . After a season in which he was mainly used in the reserve, he was in the following three seasons next to Sandy Turnbull and Enoch West to the most consistent goal scorers in the team.

By the end of the game in 1915, a year after the outbreak of World War I, he scored 39 goals in 86 competitive games, two of which he scored on April 2, 1915 in a 2-0 win against Liverpool FC - a game that turned out to be later emerged as the subject of a betting scandal. Several players from both teams had bet on exactly this final result. While Manchester players Turnbull, Enoch and Arthur Whalley were banned by the Football Association (FA), Anderson had refused to participate in a match-fixing.

In February 1916, Anderson moved to Ireland without consulting his club to play for Belfast United , a venture that the FA prevented. Two years later he caused a stir again when three Manchester players reported to the Bureau on January 8, 1918 that Anderson had attempted to manipulate a game against Burnley on December 29, 1917. Then one was against Anderson from club side dismissal pronounced. Only a few days later, reports emerged that he had attempted to manipulate a game between Everton and Blackpool on January 12, 1918, and was also banned from playing for life. He was finally banned for life by the English Football Association on February 20, 1918, arrested on March 21 for allegations of betting manipulation and attempted bribery and finally sentenced to an eight-month prison term with forced labor for conspiracy to commit fraud.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Garth Dykes: Bury FC Who's Who 1893 to 1954 . SoccerData, Nottingham 2016, ISBN 978-1-905891-93-1 , pp. 7 .
  2. ^ Joyce, p. 9
  3. ↑ a b Garth Dykes: The United Alphabet - A Complete Who's Who of Manchester United FC ACL & Polar Publishing Ltd., Leicester 1994, ISBN 0-9514862-6-8 , p. 12 f .
  4. ↑ Profile at mufcinfo.com
personal data
SURNAME Anderson, George
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Anderson, George Walter (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION English soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH between January 1893 and March 1893
PLACE OF BIRTH Cheetham Hill
DATE OF DEATH October 1931
Place of death Elk City, Oklahoma