Walter Eaton

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Walter Eaton
Personnel
birthday 3rd quarter 1881
place of birth Sheffield ,  England
date of death May 15, 1917
Place of death France
position Defender (right)
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
Attercliffe
1903-1905 The Wednesday 1 (0)
Rotherham County
Rotherham Town
St. John's (Park) Church
1 Only league games are given.

Walter Eaton (3rd quarter 1881 in Sheffield , † May 15, 1917 in France ) was an English football player .

Career

Eaton came in the summer of 1903 from Attercliffe , a club from a suburb of Sheffield , with the recommendation to be able to play both defender and attacking to the professional club The Wednesday and was described as "sturdy but small". At Wednesday he was usually part of the reserve team. His only competitive game for the first team dated April 3, 1905, when he was used in a game in the Football League First Division 1904/05 . In the home game against Derby County he represented Willie Layton on the position of right defender (final score 1: 1). At the end of the season Eaton was not signed by The Wednesday and he therefore played from the summer of 1905 in nearby Rotherham in the Midland League , first for Rotherham County and later for Rotherham Town . In County he wore some of the captain's armband, in Town he played in the reserve team at least until the end of 1908, but had to struggle with knee problems, which were cited in obituaries as an obstacle to a greater football career.

Later he was the captain of the football church team of St. John's (Park) Church , in which he also served as a worship helper ( sidesman ). For the team he was active at least until 1914 and won with her two times in a row the championship of the Sheffield Sunday School League . Eaton not only excelled as a footballer, but also played cricket , he led the church team, which was taking up as St. John's Institute , in 1912 as captain to the championship in the Hallam and District League , after which he played for the Exchange CC . He earned his living as a punch of metal hollow vessels ( hollowware stamper ).

Eaton served with the rank of private in World War I ; first in the York and Lancaster Regiment and then with the Northumberland Fusiliers . He was wounded in fighting in northern France and died on May 15, 1917 at the age of 35 in a French hospital. Eaton was buried in the British War Cemetery in Étaples in the Pas-de-Calais department . He left behind his wife and a daughter.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ SHEFFIELD WEDNESDAY. . In: Athletic News , August 24, 1903, p. 5.  (link with costs)
  2. ↑ LOCAL FOOTBALL PROSPECTS. SHEFFIELD WEDNESDAY. . In: Sheffield Daily Telegraph , August 25, 1903, p. 12.  (paid link)
  3. ↑ SHEFFIELD WEDNESDAY V. DERBY COUNTY. . In: Sheffield Daily Telegraph , April 4, 1905, p. 12.  (paid link)
  4. ↑ SHEFFIELD WEDNESDAY v. DERBY. . In: Manchester Courier and Lancashire General Advertiser , April 4, 1905, p. 10.  (paid link)
  5. ↑ SHEFFIELD WEDNESDAY v. DERBY. . In: Sheffield Daily Telegraph , Aug 8, 1905, p. 12.  (paid link)
  6. ↑ ROTHERHAM COUNTY V. NOTTS RESERVE. . In: Sheffield Daily Telegraph , September 29, 1906, p. 8.  (paid link)
  7. ^ Sheffield Association League. . In: Sheffield Daily Telegraph , December 28, 1908, p. 3.  (paid link)
  8. ^ Football Facts And Fancies. . In: Star Green 'un , May 26, 1917, p. 1.  (link subject to charge)
  9. ^ Sheffield SS League. . In: Star Green 'un , March 25, 1911, p. 4.  (link with costs)
  10. ↑ a b c d e DEATH OF AN EX-WEDNESDAY PLAYER. WALTER EATON. . In: Sheffield Daily Telegraph , May 22, 1917, p. 7.  (paid link)
  11. ↑ SHEFFIELD SS LEAGUE. Re-played semi-final. . In: Star Green 'un , April 18, 1914, p. 5.  (link subject to charge)
  12. ↑ St. John's Institute. . In: Star Green 'un , April 27, 1912, p. 6.  (link subject to charge)
  13. ↑ Jason Dickinson, John Brodie: The Wednesday Boys: A Definitive Who's Who of Sheffield Wednesday Football Club 1880–2005 . Pickard Communication, Sheffield 2005, ISBN 978-0-9547264-9-2 , pp. 96 .
  14. ↑ footballandthefirstworldwar.org: Walter Eaton | Service Record , accessed May 21, 2018
  15. ↑ IN MEMORIAM. . In: Sheffield Evening Telegraph , May 15, 1919, p. 5.  (paid link)
personal data
SURNAME Eaton, Walter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION English soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH between July 1881 and September 1881
PLACE OF BIRTH Sheffield
DATE OF DEATH May 15, 1917
Place of death France