John Beckram

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John Beckram
Personnel
Surname John George Beckram
birthday August 1881
place of birth Sunderland ,  England
date of death March 19, 1933
Place of death Sunderland ,  England
position Half-forward (right)
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
0000-1901 Sunderland Selbourne
1901-1903 Sheffield United 0 (0)
1903-1905 Bradford City 25 (6)
1906 West Stanley FC
1906-1908 Denaby United
1908 Wallsend Park Villa
1908-1910 Spennymoor United
1910–? Gosforth
1 Only league games are given.

John George Beckram (born August 1881 in Sunderland , † March 19, 1933 ibid) was an English football player .

Career

Beckram was a student of the Sunderland school selection and also played in a selection game against the Sheffield selection . He then played for Sunderland Selbourne in the Wearside League and was considered one of the best strikers there. In November 1901 he was committed for a transfer fee of £ 8 from the first division club Sheffield United , where he received a weekly wage of £ 2 as a professional; shortly before that, Sheffield had signed Alf Common , a player from Sunderland. On the occasion of his departure, his club Selbourne organized a “smoker”, an informal men's group, at which he received a leather suitcase as a parting gift. Beckram stayed the next two seasons without a competitive appearance for the first team of Sheffield United, but in a charity game on the occasion of the stadium disaster in Glasgow's Ibrox Park one month earlier , he came to an appearance against local rivals Sheffield Wednesday in May 1902 . He was also a regular member of the reserve team and scored, among other things, in the city derby against Wednesday's reserve in a 3-2 defeat in November 1902.

For the 1903/04 season he moved to the Second Division at Bradford City , his Sheffield teammate Sam Bright was also committed. The club had only been formed a few months earlier and was accepted into the league by the Football League in an attempt to catch up with rugby, which is locally more popular in Bradford, in the audience. Beckram was on September 1, 1903 in the club's historic first competitive game, a 2-0 league defeat against Grimsby Town , in which, according to the press, he was one of the best players on his team alongside Dickie Guy and Johnny McMillan . After another defeat against Gainsborough Trinity , he lost his place for the next few months, Jack Forrest , Ben Prosser and Everett Moore were allowed to try each other briefly in the right half- forward position. In December 1903 he returned to the team and kept his place in the team until the end of the season. The following season 1904/05 Beckram started with one goal each in the first two games before a serious knee injury put him out of action for a long time. The 2-1 home win against Burslem Port Vale was Beckram's last appearance in the Football League, in January 1905 a journalist noted that Beckram "only gets one chance in the first eleven if someone else gets injured."

Beckram was back on the football field in the reserve team by January 1905 at the latest, with the second substitute he won the West Yorkshire League and the West Riding Challenge Cup at the end of the season . After his time at Bradford, for which he had scored a total of 8 goals in 26 competitive appearances, he played in the following years for some clubs in non-league football , mostly in the north-east of England : after a stay at West Stanley FC , he ran for Denaby United in the Midland League on; then for Wallsend Park Villa and Spennymoor United in the North Eastern League .

Beckram died at the age of 51 in March 1933 and was survived by his mother.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Terry Frost: Bradford City AFC Who's Who - Part 1: Football League Players 1903 to 1939 . SoccerData, Nottingham 2017, ISBN 978-1-911376-04-0 , pp. 16 .
  2. ↑ Frost names 1931 as the year of his death , contrary to the English National Football Archive (ENFA) and contemporary press articles (see below)
  3. ↑ a b ANOTHER PLAYER FOR SHEFFIELD UNITED. . In: Athletic News , December 2, 1901, p. 3.  (link with costs)
  4. ↑ FOOTBALL. . In: Portsmouth Evening News , November 27, 1901, p. 4.  (paid link)
  5. ↑ FOOTBALL. . In: Sunderland Daily Echo and Shipping Gazette , November 29, 1901, p. 4.  (paid link)
  6. ↑ SHEFFIELD WEDNESDAY v. SHEFFIELD UNITED. . In: Sheffield Daily Telegraph , May 5, 1902, p. 10.  (paid link)
  7. ↑ SHEFFIELD UNITED RESERVE v. SHEFFIELD WEDNESDAY RESERVE. . In: Sheffield Daily Telegraph , November 25, 1902, p. 10.  (paid link)
  8. ↑ Bradford City's debut. . In: Sheffield Daily Telegraph , September 2, 1903, p. 9.  (paid link)
  9. ↑ cf. Terry Frost: Bradford City - A Complete Record 1903–1988 . Breedon Books, Derby 1988, ISBN 0-907969-38-0 , pp. 170 f .
  10. ↑ BRADFORD CITY v. MANCHESTER UNITED. BECKRAM INJURED. . In: Bradford Daily Telegraph , October 5, 1904, p. 6.  (paid link)
  11. ↑ THE ASSOCIATION GAME. . In: Yorkshire Evening Post , January 14, 1905, p. 5.  (paid link)
  12. ↑ TO-MORROW'S TEAMS. . In: Bradford Daily Telegraph , Jan 27, 1905, p. 5.  (paid link)
  13. ↑ BIRTHS, MARRIAGES, AND DEATHS. . In: Sunderland Daily Echo and Shipping Gazette , March 20, 1933, p. 7.  (paid link)
personal data
SURNAME Beckram, John
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Beckram, John George (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION English soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH August 1881
PLACE OF BIRTH Sunderland
DATE OF DEATH March 19, 1933
Place of death Sunderland