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Percy
Humphreys |
Notts County FC
1 appearance, 0 goals
P 1 W 0 D 0 L 1 F
1:
A 2
0% successful
1903
captain: none
minutes played: 90 |
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Timeline |
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Percy Humphreys |
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Birth |
3 December 1880 in Cambridge, Cambridgeshire [registered in
Cambridge, March 1881]. |
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According to the 1881
census, four month old Percy is the youngest of two children to Thomas and
Sarah (née Coe). His father is a tailor. They live at 5 Saxon Street in Cambridge. |
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According to the 1891
census, Percy and his older sister are the only children and live with
their parents at 29 John Street in Cambridge. His father remains a tailor. |
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According to the 1901
census, Percy is a professional footballer living with his widowed aunty
in London. He lives with Martha Mumford and her two daughters (his
cousins), and four boarders, all at 18 Cupar Road in Battersea. |
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Marriage |
to Florence Agnes
Mumford, on 15 June 1901 in
Battersea
[registered in Wandsworth, June 1901]. |
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Cannot be found on the 1911
census.
However, according to his army records, in 1915,
Humphreys was living at 38 Upton Lane in Forest Gate. A year later, at his
discharge, he was living at 43 Kitchener Road, still in Forest Gate. |
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According to the 1921 census, Percy is now a
football coach for Tottenham Hotspur FC, still married and they have
another daughter, Peggy. They live at 51 Glastone Avenue in East Ham. |
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According to the 1939 register, Percy remains
married, but is here living at 13 Thorngrove Road in West Ham, the home of
Ada Mumford. His is a night-supervisor for a gas company. |
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Death |
13 April 1959, aged
78 years 131 days
[registered in Stepney, London, June 1959]. |
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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 junior
football career with Cambridge St. Mary's FC reserves in 1897, maning the
first XI the following January. As an amateur, he represented
Cambridgeshire FA twice, against Huntingdonshire FA and Hertfordshire FA,
both in 1900. He joined Southern League's Queen's Park Rangers FC as a
professional in the 1900 close season. Joined Notts County FC a year
later. Made 189 league appearances, scoring 66
goals, before opting to leave the Lace capital. Blackburn Rovers FC
signed Humphreys in the 1907 close season, but he refused to go, stating
that he 'did not want to go further north than Nottingham.' On 23 May
1907, the FA then refused Humphreys permission to leave for Southampton
FC. However, he opted to sign on with Notts County before being
transferred to Leicester Fosse FC in August.
After 26 league appearances and nineteen goals, he returned south
when Chelsea FC signed him on 26 February 1908 for the maximum transfer
fee, £350. 45 league outings followed with
a return of thirteen goals. Tottenham Hotspur FC signed him on 9
December 1909 and another 45 league outings
followed, with 24 goals scored. After being dropped to the
reserves, Leicester Fosse FC re-signed Humphreys on 6
October 1911 for another fourteen league
appearances and two goals. Joined Hartlepools United FC as a
player-manager on 26 June 1912, he made a final
28 North-Eastern League appearances and scored eleven goals before
he settled into coaching abroad in 1913. However, on 18 November 1914,
Humphreys signed for Norwich City FC. |
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Club honours |
Cambridgeshire Senior Cup winners
1898-99; Haverhill & District League
winners 1899-1900; |
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Individual honours |
Football League (one
appearance) |
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Distinctions |
None |
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Height/Weight |
5'
7", 11st.
6lbs [1903]. 5' 6¼" [1916] |
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Source |
Douglas Lammings' An English
Football Internationalist Who's Who [1990]. |
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Management
Career |
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Club(s) |
Joined Hartlepools
United FC as a player-manager in the 1912 close season. Spent the 1913-14
season coaching FC Basel. Following the war, he was coaching Italian club
US Alessandria Calcio in 1920-22. He returned to coach in Switzerland
during 1923. |
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England Career |
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Player number |
One of
two who became the 288th
players (288) to appear for England. |
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Position(s) |
Inside-right |
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Only match |
No. 79,
4 April 1903, England 1 Scotland 2,
a British Championship match at
Bramall Lane, Highfield, Sheffield, aged 22 years
122 days. |
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Major tournaments |
British Championship 1902-03; |
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Team honours |
British Championship shared 1902-03; |
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Individual honours |
None |
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Distinctions |
Died nine days
after Jeff Hall |
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Beyond England |
No additional information. -
An English Football Internationalists' Who's Who.
Douglas Lamming (1990). Hatton Press, p.140.
Member of the 17th
Middlesex (Footballers') Regimental Battalion, joined 20 February 1915,
transferred to the 27th Middlesex on 5 November 1915, eventually
discharged 18 August 1916, 'being no longer physically fit for War
service'. In fact, he had a 'loss of internal semilunar cartilage of his
left-knee'. It occurred in December 1914 in Norwich, when he was 'playing
football and fell on knee-cap.' Military Service did not aggravate the
injury. |
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Percy Humphreys - Career Statistics |
| Squads |
Apps |
comp. apps |
Mins. |
Goals |
goals ave.min |
comp. goals |
Capt. |
Disc. |
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2 |
1 |
1 |
90 |
0 |
0
min |
0 |
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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Percy Humphreys
- 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
-
British Championship |
1 |
0 |
0 |
1 |
1 |
2 |
-1 |
0 |
0 |
1.00 |
2.00 |
0.00 |
-1 |
| All |
1 |
0 |
0 |
1 |
1 |
2 |
-1 |
0 |
0 |
1.00 |
2.00 |
0.00 |
-1 |
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Percy Humphreys
- 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 1902-03 |
1 |
0 |
0 |
1 |
1 |
2 |
-1 |
0 |
0 |
1.00 |
2.00 |
0.00 |
-1 |
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BC
All |
1 |
0 |
0 |
1 |
1 |
2 |
-1 |
0 |
0 |
1.00 |
2.00 |
0.00 |
-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 |
1 |
0 |
0 |
1 |
1 |
2 |
-1 |
0 |
0 |
1.00 |
2.00 |
0.00 |
-1 |
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All |
1 |
0 |
0 |
1 |
1 |
2 |
-1 |
0 |
0 |
1.00 |
2.00 |
0.00 |
-1 |
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