John Blackwood (football player, 1877)

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John Blackwood
Personnel
birthday August 31, 1877
place of birth Glasgow ,  Scotland
date of death January 4, 1913
Place of death Glasgow ,  Scotland
position Center Forward
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
Petershill FC
1899-1900 Celtic Glasgow 1 0(0)
1899-1900 →  Partick Thistle  (loan) 8 0(7)
1900-1901 Woolwich Arsenal 17 0(6)
1901-1902 Reading FC 23 0(6)
1902-1904 Queens Park Rangers 46 (33)
1904-1905 West Ham United 4 0(1)
1905– FC Royal Albert
1 Only league games are given.

John Blackwood (born August 31, 1877 in Glasgow , † January 4, 1913 ibid) was a Scottish football player .

Career

Blackwood was born in Maine, USA in 1877, but went to school in Scotland and joined Petershill FC at the age of 20 . In mid-September 1899 Blackwood and Willie McOustra played for Celtic Glasgow in a test match against a team from the Orange Free State called " Kaffirs " and both were signed following the game. Blackwood made his league debut for the Celts on September 30 against Heart of Midlothian , but was so overwhelmed in the 2-0 defeat in the center-forward position that after half-time Barney Battles moved into the top of the attack and this was his only appearance for Celtic stayed. In late October 1899 he was awarded for the remainder of the season to Partick Thistle , with whom he won the championship of the Scottish League Division Two. In May 1900 he moved to England at Woolwich Arsenal , for which he scored six goals in 17 league games in the 1900/01 season and where he was in the center-forward position in competition with Ralph Gaudie and Alex Main .

As a result, he continued his career in the Southern Football League , first with Reading FC , with which he finished 2nd in 1902, then with the Queens Park Rangers , for which he scored 33 goals in two seasons and developed into a crowd favorite. In 1904 the eager striker with a hard shot came to West Ham United , where he temporarily replaced Billy Bridgeman at the turn of the year 1904/1905 . Blackwood scored a goal on his debut against Portsmouth FC , but the game was lost, as were the three following, and Blackwood lost his place back to Bridgeman. In September 1905 Blackwood moved back to Scotland for the amateur club FC Royal Albert .

literature

  • Eugene MacBride, Martin O'Connor, George Sheridan: An Alphabet of the Celts - A Complete Who's Who of Celtic FC ACL & Polar Publishing Ltd., Leicester 1994, ISBN 0-9514862-7-6 , pp. 29 f .
  • John Marks: Heroes in Hoops - QPR Who's Who 1899 ~ 2003 . Yore Publications, Harefield 2003, ISBN 1-874427-84-4 , pp. 28 .
  • Tony Hogg: Who's Who of West Ham United . Profile Sports Media, London 2005, ISBN 1-903135-50-8 , pp. 29 .
  • Jeff Harris: Arsenal Who's Who . Independent UK Sports Publications, London 1995, ISBN 1-899429-03-4 , pp. 10 f .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ theyflysohigh.co.uk: 80 = John BLACKWOOD ... (1904-1905) , accessed January 20, 2020
personal data
SURNAME Blackwood, John
BRIEF DESCRIPTION scottish soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH August 31, 1877
PLACE OF BIRTH Glasgow
DATE OF DEATH January 4, 1913
Place of death Glasgow