Samuel Hickson

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Samuel Hickson
Personnel
Surname Samuel Charles Stedall Hickson
birthday 1871
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
1895-1903 FC Liege
Stations as a trainer
Years station
1895-1897 FC Liège (player-coach)
1 Only league games are given.

Samuel Charles Stedall Hickson , also Samuel Charles Hickson Stedall or just Samuel Hickson , (* 1871 ; † unknown) was an English football player who was top scorer in the Belgian football league in the seasons 1895/96 and 1896/97 . He was also with FC Liège , to which he belonged from 1895 to 1903, three times champion and once runner-up. From 1895 to 1897 he also appeared as the team's player- coach.

Career

Samuel Hickson officially joined FC Lüttich, which was founded in 1892, from 1895 when the club became one of the founding members of the predecessor of the Royal Belgian Football Association . From this time on, his younger brother Stanley Stedall Hickson (* 1877; † unknown) came to the club from Belgium's second largest city. Subsequently, Samuel Hickson won the first football championship of the Belgian first class with FC Lüttich and was top scorer, where he himself was used in nine games. In the following year he was able to defend this title and ranked with FC Liège in the final standings in second place behind the Racing Football Club . Hickson, who also took over as coach of the team in the first and second seasons, sat himself in seven championship games. In the two seasons 1897/98 and 1898/99, FC Liège was able to assert itself again and was again Belgian football champions. He then belonged to the club as a player until 1903. Hardly anything is known about his later life; his deployment dates from 1895 to 1903 are also considered unsecured; one source names 35 league games and 22 goals. It can be assumed that Hickson returned home after his time in Belgium. In 1911 a Samuel Charles Stedall Hickson, by mutual agreement with an Ernest Nelson Reade, dissolved an engineering company on Shaftesbury Avenue in London and continued it as a new venture under the name Hickson and Company .

successes

Club successes

with FC Liège
  • Champion of the highest Belgian football league: 1895/96, 1897/98 and 1898/99
  • Runner-up in the highest Belgian football league: 1896/97

Individual successes

  • Top scorer of the highest Belgian football league: 1895/96 and 1896/97

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Hickson Genealogy , accessed on January 29, 2018
  2. ↑ Excerpt from The London Gazette, September 15, 1911 (English), accessed on January 29, 2018
personal data
SURNAME Hickson, Samuel
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Stedall Hickson, Samuel Charles (full name); Hickson Stedall, Samuel Charles (other spelling)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION English soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH 1871
DATE OF DEATH 20th century