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Bert
Bliss |
Tottenham Hotspur
FC
1 appearance, 0 goals
P 1 W 0 D 0 L 1 F 0:
A 3
0% successful
1921
captain: none
minutes played: 90 |
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Timeline |
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Herbert Bliss |
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Birth |
29 March 1890 in Willenhall, Staffordshire [registered in
Wolverhampton, June 1890]. |
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According to the 1891 census,
Herbert is the youngest of six children to Pryce and Elizabeth (née
Hobson). His
Welsh father is a railway servant and they all live at 19 Bow Street in
Willenhall. |
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According to the 1901 census,
Herbert now has three younger siblings, still living in Bow Street, and
his father now a shunter on the railway. |
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According to the 1911 census,
Bert is a brass caster still at home with his parents and eight siblings,
living at Waterglade Lane in Willenhall.
According to his airmen's
service record, Bliss enlisted with the army on 20 February 1917, and
transferred to the RAF on 1 April 1918, after serving in France, he was
discharged on 30 April 1920, to 105 Pembury Road in Tottenham. |
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According to the
1921 census, Herbert, a professional footballer (for Tottenham Hotspur
FC), is boarding with the Short/Caddy family at 6 Tottenham Terrace at
White Hart Lane. |
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Marriage |
to Florence M. Grove
[registered in Edmonton, Middlesex, September 1922]. If this is the
correct Bliss, then he lived at 20 The Broadway in Enfield. |
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According to the 1939 register, Herbert, is a capstan operator and setter,
he is married, although she is not on this register. He lives at 20
Liberia Road in Islington. Florence M., a dress finisher, is living at 33
Fir Park Avenue in Edmonton. |
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Death |
14 June 1968, aged
77 years 77 days
[registered in Haringey, June 1968]. |
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Source |
 Douglas Lammings' An
English Football Internationalist Who's Who [1990] & |
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Playing Career |
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Club(s) |
Began his career with Willenhall Swifts FC,
before Tottenham Hotspur FC, in April 1912, signed him for £10.
He made 194 league appearances, scoring 92 goals. Served
in the Royal Air Force during WW1. Bliss
joined Clapton Orient FC in December 1922, he made seventy league
appearances, scoring twenty goals. Bournemouth & Boscombe Athletic
FC signed him in July 1925, but only made six league appearances.
He retired the following summer. |
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Club honours |
Football League Division Two winners 1919-20; FA
Cup winners 1920-21; FA Charity Shield winner
1921; |
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Individual honours |
None |
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Distinctions |
In March 1921,
Bliss fronted an advertising campaign for DeWitt pills for backpain. |
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Height/Weight |
5' 4½"
[1917], 5'
7", 11st.
2lbs [1921]. |
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Source |
Douglas Lammings' An English
Football Internationalist Who's Who [1990]. |
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England Career |
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Player number |
One of five who became
the 409th players (412) to appear for England. |
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Position(s) |
Inside-left |
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Only match |
No. 125, 9 April 1921,
Scotland
3
England 0,
a British Championship match at Hampden Park,
Mount Florida, Glasgow, aged
31 years
11 days. |
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Major tournaments |
British Championship 1920-21; |
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Team honours |
None |
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Individual honours |
None |
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Distinctions |
Died four days
after Tommy Smart and eleven days after Walter Alsford |
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Beyond England |
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No additional information, although
he is described as 'One of the most conscientious of players and pretty
nearly the hardest shooting forward in football, his surprise efforts
flashing into the net before the danger is even realised'. -
An English Football Internationalists' Who's Who.
Douglas Lamming (1990). Hatton Press, p.36/37. |
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