Wilf Bartrop

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Wilf Bartrop
Personnel
Surname Wilfred Bartrop
birthday November 22, 1887
place of birth Worksop , Nottinghamshire ,  England
date of death November 7, 1918
Place of death Belgium
position Winger
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
1908-1909 Worksop Town
1909-1914 Barnsley FC 160 (15)
1914-1915 Liverpool FC 3 ( 00)
1 Only league games are given.

Wilfred "Wilf" Bartrop (born November 22, 1887 in Worksop , Nottinghamshire , † November 7, 1918 in Belgium ) was an English football player .

The offensive winger was mainly active in the second division FC Barnsley , with whom he won the FA Cup in 1912 . He was killed in the First World War .

Life

Wilfred Bartrop was in the late 1880s in the town of Worksop in Nottinghamshire born. His year of birth was controversial and was given partly as 1887, partly as 1889. Presumably, Bartrop himself made false statements during his career as a professional soccer player, which "rejuvenated" him by two years. Little is known about the reasons for this alleged fraud or about his early footballing career.

In June 1909, about 20-year-old Bartrop signed a contract with his hometown club Worksop Town , with which he played in the lower-class Midland League . In September of the same year he moved to the second division Barnsley FC , where he was to play for the longest part of his career and with whom he celebrated his greatest successes.

In 1910 and 1912 Bartrop reached the final of the FA Cup with the Tykes , which was lost to the first division club Newcastle in 1910 and won against West Bromwich in a replay two years later . Wilf Bartrop was used in all finals. The best league placement in the Second Division that Barnsley achieved in Bartrop's years with the club was fourth in the 1912/13 season. In the other years, the team achieved single-digit positions in the table, with the exception of the 1910/11 season, in which the penultimate rank was occupied. In these five years, Bartrop played 156 league games in which he scored 15 goals; he was successful in front of goal two to four times each season. In the FA Cup, he played 23 games and scored twice.

During this time, the mid-twenties Bartrop was considered one of the outstanding players on his team. His strengths, which consisted in assertiveness in duels and "an eye for the goal", brought him the attention of the best clubs of his time. In May 1914 he was signed by the first division club Liverpool .

Liverpool had become English runners-up in 1910, but had only been able to place in the lower part of the table since then. The greatest success in the years before the First World War had been reaching the final game in the FA Cup in 1914, which was lost to Burnley . Also in the 1914/15 season , the Reds only reached 13th place in the First Division. During this season, his only one on Anfield , Wilfred Bartrop played three league games against Oldham , Bolton and Bradford Park Avenue . He didn't score a goal.

After the end of the 1915 season, the Football League was suspended indefinitely due to World War II. In the same year Wilf Bartrop returned to his hometown of Worksop and worked there in the mining industry . He then joined the Royal Field Artillery , which fought for Britain on the Western Front of the War.
On November 7, 1918, four days before the official end of the war, Wilfred Bartrop was killed in Belgium .

He left behind his wife Ruby, with whom he had lived in Worksop. He is buried in the village of Warcoing in the municipality of Pecq .

successes

  • FA Cup winner 1912
  • FA Cup finalist 1910

Web links

credentials

  1. ↑ Archived copy ( Memento of the original dated February 4, 2009 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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / freespace.virgin.net
  2. ↑ a b http://www.cwgc.org/search/casualty_details.aspx?casualty=479215
  3. ↑ a b http://www.thestar.co.uk/news/Reds39-FA-Cup-winner39s-medal.3760548.jp
  4. ↑ Archived copy ( memento of the original from July 20, 2008 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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.fa-cupfinals.co.uk
  5. ↑ Archived copy ( memento of the original from July 23, 2008 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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.fa-cupfinals.co.uk
  6. ↑ http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/sport/football/article1000339.ece
  7. ↑ Archived copy ( Memento of the original dated February 4, 2009 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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / freespace.virgin.net
personal data
SURNAME Bartrop, Wilf
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bartrop, Wilfred (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION English soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH November 22, 1887
PLACE OF BIRTH Worksop , Nottinghamshire
DATE OF DEATH November 7, 1918
Place of death Belgium