Sam Chedgzoy

Sam Chedgzoy
Personnel
Surname	Samuel Chedgzoy
birthday	January 27, 1889
place of birth	Ellesmere Port ,  England
date of death	15th January 1967
Place of death	Montreal ,  Canada
position	Right winger
Men's
Years	station	Games (goals) 1
1908-1910	Burnell's Ironworks
1910-1926	Everton FC	279 (33)
1926-1930	New Bedford Whalers	164 (21)
1930-1939	Montreal Carsteel
National team
Years	selection	Games (goals)
1920-1924	England	8 (0)
Stations as a trainer
Years	station
1924	Grenadier Guards
1930-1940	Montreal Carsteel
1 Only league games are given.

Samuel "Sam" Chedgzoy (born January 27, 1889 in Ellesmere Port , † January 15, 1967 in Montreal ) was an English football player . The eight-time England international caused a change in football rules with his execution of a corner kick .

Career

Career at Everton and for England

Chedgzoy played locally for Burnell's Ironworks before he was discovered by Fred Geary in 1910 and brought to Everton FC . He made his league debut for Everton on Boxing Day of the same year in the away game against Newcastle United , but only made it into the starting eleven when he won the championship in the 1914/15 season , when he made 30 appearances on the right wing and regularly assists Center forward Bobby Parker created. Due to the First World War, there was no game operation in the Football League for the following four years ; the English professional game class did not continue to play until 1919. Chedgzoy was one of the big names in the Toffees team and developed into one of the best wingers in English football. In March 1920, at the age of 31, he was appointed to the English national team for the first time as part of the British Home Championship against Wales and formed the right wing there, as in four other international matches, with Bob Kelly . By 1924 he made a total of eight international matches in regular comparisons with the other Home Nations , but his record of two wins, three draws and three defeats was rather mixed.

The amendment to the regulations made necessary by Chedgzoy

However, Chedgzoy achieved permanent fame for his unusual execution of a corner ball . As the International Football Association Board (IFAB) in 1924 changed the rules for the execution of Eckballs to the effect that in future also gates are valid by directly turning corners (previously always another player had the ball touched), was the editor of the Liverpool Echo , Ernest Edwards, that the rules no longer dictated how often the corner kicker could touch the ball. Edwards suggested that the players of Everton FC just dribble away from the corner. After all, Chedgzoy was the one who dared the attempt, simply ran off the corner flag with the ball and shot it into the goal. There are different statements about the game and whether the goal counted, the only thing that is certain is that the Football Association closed the loophole in the rules in an emergency meeting and that the IFAB adapted the rules accordingly at its annual meeting a year later.

Chedgzoy played for Everton until 1926, in total he completed 300 competitive games for the Toffees and scored 38 goals.

Career in Canada

After Chedgzoy came to Canada for vacation for the first time in the 1922 season break, two years later he coached the Army Team of the Grenadier Guards in the Interprovincial League during the summer break and returned to England at the start of the season. In 1926 he moved after leaving Everton in the American Soccer League to the New Bedford Whalers in Massachusetts , for which he came to 164 missions. In early 1930 he joined Montreal Carsteel and became a player- coach . He led the team several times in the Canadian championship finals, in addition to successes in 1936, 1939 and 1940, they were previously defeated four times in 1931 to 1934. Chedgzoy himself was still 50 years old in 1939 actively participated in the game.

In addition, Chedgzoy came several times for selection teams from Quebec against foreign touring teams, including against the Glasgow Rangers and FC Kilmarnock in 1930, Celtic Glasgow in 1931 and Audax Italiano in 1933 . Professionally, he was employed in accounting for the vehicle manufacturer Canadian Car and Foundry for 25 years . His son Sydney Chedgzoy (1911-1983) was also a professional footballer and came to various English clubs to some missions.

Sam Chedgzoy died shortly before his 78th birthday in his adopted home, Montreal . In 2005 he was inducted into the Canadian Soccer Hall of Fame in the Player category .

literature

• Tony Matthews: Who's Who of Everton . Mainstream Publishing, Edinburgh 2004, ISBN 1-84018-819-7 , pp. 54 .

Web links

• Entry into the Canadian Soccer Hall of Fame
• Entry at englandfootballonline.com

References and comments

1. ↑ Numerous sources contradict each other in the details of the incident. While some cite a 5-2 win against Tottenham Hotspur in April 1924, others speak of the early stages of the 1924/25 season. There is also no clarity as to whether the hit counted. The corresponding rule change was made in June 1924 by the International Football Association Board ( minutes from 1924 ( Memento of the original dated June 16, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link accordingly Instructions and then remove this note .; PDF file; 7.57 MB) and the resulting loopholes officially closed again one year later by the IFAB ( protocol from 1925 ( memento of the original from October 26, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice .; PDF file; 4.16 MB).  

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