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Gordon
Hodgson |
Liverpool FC
3 appearances, 1 goal
P 3 W 2 D 0 L 1 F 9:
A 3
67% successful
1930-31
captain: none
minutes played: 270 |
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Profile |
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Full name |
Gordon Hodgson |
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Born |
16 April 1904 in Benoni, Gauteng, South Africa [not registered in
UK], to English parents |
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Census Notes |
Not on the 1911
census, he was still in South Africa. |
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According to the 1939
register, widower Gordon is still a professional footballer and now a
police reserve, and he lives with his two children at 22 Cross Flatts Row
in the Beeston area of Leeds, with the widowed Emily Chadwick. |
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Married |
to Doris Huckell, on 23 November 1928 at West Derby Register Office
[registered in West Derby, Lancashire, December 1928]. Two
children, Doreen T. (b.24 October 1930) and Gordon (b.24 March 1934).
Doris died aged just
27 years old, on 8 March 1938, at Preston Parade in Beeston, Leeds. |
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Died |
14 June 1951 of cancer at his home in Burslem, aged
47 years 59 days
[registered in Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, June 1951]. He had
been poorly for a couple of months in North Staffordshire General
Infirmary, and returned home days before his death. |
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Death notes |
"But
for his extreme conscientiousness he might still be alive. When Port Vale
were having trouble with the drainage system at their new ground during
the wet spring, Gordon Hodgson took fork and spade with the ground staff
more than once, trying to get the pitch fit for play. From one of the
soakings he received he contracted pneumonia, from which he never really
recovered." - Friday, 15 June 1951, The
Yorkshire Post and Leeds Mercury. |
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Height/Weight |
6'
0", 12st. 7lbs [1928 & 1929]. 6'
0½", 13st.
5lbs [1930]. |
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Source |
Douglas Lammings' An
English Football Internationalist Who's Who [1990] & FindMyPast.com |
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Club Career |
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Club(s) |
Was
playing football in South Africa with Benoni FC (1919-21),
Rustenburg FC (1921-22), Pretoria FC (1922-24)
and then Transvaal FC (1924-25). When he toured
England with the South African Amateur team, he scored a hat-trick against
Liverpool FC on 1 October 1924,
Liverpool FC then signed him on 17 November 1925, two months after they
signed fellow countryman, Arthur Riley, who was the goalkeeper on the same
tour. Hodgson arrived on 14 December. With the Anfield club, he
scored 233 goals in 358 Dvision One appearances. He moved to Aston Villa
on
8 January 1936 for a reported £3000 transfer fee. After 28 league
appearances in which he scored eleven goals, he joined Leeds United AFC on
2 March 1937.
During the war he worked for munitions and guested with York City FC. He retired
from playing, having made 81 Division One appearances and amassed
a tally of 51 goals, when he took on the Port Vale FC managership. |
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Club honours |
None |
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Individual honours |
Football
League (two appearances) |
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Distinctions |
Played cricket
with Lancashire CCC as a fast bowler for five seasons,
signed on 3 September 1927, before he joined
Forfarshire CC as a professional on 27 September 1934. His success saw him
receive a special presentation, particularly, the cricket ball with which
he took eight wickets for 25 runs against Perthshire CC on the North Inch,
Saturday, 1 August 1936. It was silver-mounted.
Played professional
with the Heaton CC of Bolton in 1937. Eppleton CC
(Durham Senior) and Hunslet CC (Evening
League) in 1938 and Spen Victoria CC
(Bradford) in 1939. Coached Gildersome CC in 1946.
Apparently,
he was good at baseball too. |
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Source |
Douglas Lammings' An English
Football Internationalist Who's Who [1990] & LFC History. |
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Management Career |
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Club(s) |
Applied for the vacant managerial position at Dundee FC in May 1937. He
remained at Elland
Road to become a player-coach, in charge of the Central League team.
However, on 29 October 1946, United allowed Hodgson to leave for Port Vale
FC as
their new manager. In September 1948, Hodgson was an applicant for the
vacant managerial position at Everton FC. He was Valiants manager at the time of his death in 1951.
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Club honours |
While in
the Third Division South, he never got Port Vale FC higher than eighth, or
beyond the fourth round of the FA Cup. |
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Distinctions |
In
becoming Port Vale FC's manager, Hodgson thus became the first South
African to manage an English club. |
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England Career |
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Player number |
One of five who became the 553rd
players
(554)
to appear for England. |
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Position(s) |
Inside-right |
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First match |
No. 173,
20 October 1930,
England 5 Ireland
1, a British
Championship match at
Bramall Lane, Highfield, Sheffield, aged 26 years
187 days. |
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Last match |
No. 175, 28 March 1931, Scotland 2
England 0, a British Championship match at Hampden Park, Mount Florida,
Glasgow, aged 26 years 346 days. |
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Major tournaments |
British Championship 1930-31; |
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Team honours |
British Championship shared 1930-31; |
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Individual honours |
South Africa
amateur (two appearances) |
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Distinctions |
None |
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Beyond England |
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He was a bolier-maker in South Africa. No
additional information from Lamming. -
An English Football Internationalists' Who's Who.
Douglas Lamming (1990). Hatton Press, p.132. |
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Gordon Hodgson - Career Statistics |
| Squads |
Apps |
comp. apps |
Mins. |
Goals |
goals ave.min |
comp. goals |
Capt. |
Disc. |
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3 |
3 |
3 |
270 |
1 |
270
min |
1 |
none |
none |
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minutes are an approximation, due to the fact that many matches rarely stick to exactly ninety minutes long, allowing time for injuries and errors. |
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Gordon Hodgson
- Match Record - All Matches - By
Type of Match |
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Type |
P |
W |
D |
L |
F |
A |
GD |
FTS
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CS |
FAv |
AAv |
Pts% |
W/L |
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Home |
1 |
1 |
0 |
0 |
5 |
1 |
+4 |
0 |
0 |
5.00 |
1.00 |
100.0 |
+1 |
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Away |
2 |
1 |
0 |
1 |
4 |
2 |
+2 |
1 |
1 |
2.00 |
1.00 |
50.0 |
=0 |
| All
-
British Championship |
3 |
2 |
0 |
1 |
9 |
3 |
+6 |
1 |
1 |
3.00 |
1.00 |
66.7 |
+1 |
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Gordon Hodgson
- Match Record - Tournament Matches |
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British Championship Competition |
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Type |
P |
W |
D |
L |
F |
A |
GD |
FTS |
CS |
FAv |
AAv |
Pts% |
W/L |
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BC 1930-31 |
3 |
2 |
0 |
1 |
9 |
3 |
+6 |
1 |
1 |
3.00 |
1.00 |
66.7 |
+1 |
| BC All |
3 |
2 |
0 |
1 |
9 |
3 |
+6 |
1 |
1 |
3.00 |
1.00 |
66.7 |
+1 |
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All Competition |
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Type |
P |
W |
D |
L |
F |
A |
GD |
FTS |
CS |
FAv |
AAv |
Pts% |
W/L |
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BC |
3 |
2 |
0 |
1 |
9 |
3 |
+6 |
1 |
1 |
3.00 |
1.00 |
66.7 |
+1 |
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All |
3 |
2 |
0 |
1 |
9 |
3 |
+6 |
1 |
1 |
3.00 |
1.00 |
66.7 |
+1 |
Gordon Hodgson
- Match History
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Club:
Liverpool F.C.
- three full appearances (270 min) |
F.A. International Select Committee - three full appearances (270 min)x
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Notes
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