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Norman
Creek |
Corinthians
FC & Darlington FC
1 appearance, 1 debut goal
P 1 W 1 D 0 L 0 F 4:
A 1
100% successful
1923
captain: none
minutes played: 90 |
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Timeline |
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Flight Lieutenant
Frederick Norman Smith Creek MC MBE
Smith is his mother's maiden
name |
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Birth |
12 January 1898
at 16 Greenbank Crescent, Darlington, County Durham [registered in
Darlington, March 1898].
Attended Darlington Grammar School |
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Baptism |
13 February 1898
in Darlington |
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According to the 1901 census,
Frederick is the eldest of two sons to Arthur Frederick and Edyth (née
Smith), living at 16
Greenbank Crescent in Darlington. His father is a railway clerk. |
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According to the 1911 census,
Frederick Norman Smith has another brother, and the five of them still
live at 16 Greenbank Crescent, now with a servant. His father is still a
railway clerk.
His army officer records confirm he was still living
at 16 Greenbank Crescent in 1917-19. |
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According to the 1921 census,
Frederick Norman Smith is a medical student at Trinity College, Cambridge. |
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Marriage |
to Lilian Grace Booth on 22 April
1924 at Holy Trinity Church in Cambridge
[registered in Cambridge, June 1924].
Norman is a
schoolmaster at Dauntsey School in West Lavington, his father is
an accountant. Lilian lived at 11 Market Hill in Cambridge. |
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According to the 1939 register, Frederick Norman, an assistant
school-master at Dauntsey's School, is married to Lillian Grace, and
living at Skelwyth in Devizes. |
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Death |
26 July 1980
in Folkestone, Kent, aged
82 years 196 days
[registered in Shepway, Kent, September 1980]. |
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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) |
He captained the football team at Darlington Grammar, moving onto
Cambridge University AFC and earned his blue in 1920-22, although he was
unfit to take part in 1921. Joined the Corinthians FC side from 1919 until
the 1932, in 103 matches, he amassed 120 goals. Also
signed amateur forms with his hometown club, Darlington FC, in April 1922,
where he made two league appearances in the two years
he was there. |
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Club honours |
None |
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Individual honours |
Award the
Military Cross during WW1 and MBE on 2 June 1943. |
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Distinctions |
Played minor
counties cricket for Wiltshire CC 1926-36.
Creek, and Ivan Sharpe, were
the commentators for the 1936 FA Cup Final, chosen from numerous tested.
Afterwhich, he became a BBC commentator in his own right. |
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Height/Weight |
5'
8½", 11st.
4lbs [1922]. |
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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 six who
became the 445th players (449) to appear
for England. |
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Position(s) |
Centre-forward |
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Only match |
No. 134, 10 May 1923, France 1 England 4, a
friendly
match at
Stade Pershing, Paris, aged
25 years
118 days. |
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Major tournaments |
None |
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Team honours |
None |
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Individual honours |
England Amateur
(five appearances, four goals on his debut) |
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Distinctions |
None |
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Beyond England |
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Joined Durham Light Infantry in 1916.
He was a sportsmaster at Dauntsey's School in Wiltshire between at least 1924 and
1936. Worked for the Football Association from January 1954 until
October 1963. He managed the Amateur time and the side that went to the
Olympic Games. Football Writer for the Daily Telegraph and wrote the
Official History of the Corinthians (Longmans
1933) -
An English Football Internationalists' Who's Who.
Douglas Lamming (1990). Hatton Press, p.78/79. |
