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Alf
Milward |
Everton FC
4 appearances, 3 goals
1 goal on his debut
P 4 W 3 D
0 L 1 F 12: A 3
75% successful
1891-97
captain: none
minutes played: 360 |
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Timeline |
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Alfred Milward |
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Birth |
Monday, 12 September
1870 on West Street in Great Marlow, Buckinghamshire |
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registered in Marlow October-December 1870 |
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Education |
Attended Sir William Borlas's
Grammar School, Great Marlow. |
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According to the 1871
census, four month old Alfred is the youngest of five children to John and
Elizabeth (née Humphreys). His father is a baker, and with a single
servant and two apprentices, they live at West Street in Great Marlow. |
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According to the 1881
census, Alfred now has a younger sister, and with his four older siblings,
they live with their parents still in West Street. His father is a baker
and corn dealer and they live with a servant and an apprentice. This
census also reveals that Alfred's older brother, John, is 'lame from
birth'. |
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Cannot be found
on the 1891
census. |
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Marriage |
to Catherine 'Cassie' Airey, on 28 June 1893, at Holy Trinity Church in Walton Breck.
Cassie was born in Belfast. Stated as living at 50 Oakfield Road, and
Alfred is a butcher. |
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registered in West Derby April-June 1893 |
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Children |
Alf and Cassie Milward had
three daughters together. Phyllis
(b.25 January 1894), Cassie (b.27 February 1895)
and Edina (b.1 April 1898). |
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(His mother
died in early 1895)
(At the time of Edina's baptism in 1898, they were
living on Bishop Road in Anfield. He is a footballer).
According to the 1901
census, Alfred Milward is a professional footballer married to Cassie with
three children, Phyllis, Cassie and Edina, living at at 60 Cromwell Road in
Shirley, Hampshire. Edgar Chadwick is a boarder. They have one servant. |
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According to the 1911
census, Alfred is a publican, still married to Catherine, and still with
three children, living at The Coach & Horses at 65 Orchard Lane in Southampton. |
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According to the 1921
census, Alfred is still a publican, still married, and with one of his
daughters, Edina, are still, living at the Coach & Horses Inn. |
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According to the 1939 register, Alfred and Catherine
are still married, living at 55 Arthur Road in Southampton. He is a
general painter and labourer. |
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Death |
Sunday, 1 June 1941 in Winchester,
Hampshire
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aged
70 years 262 days |
registered in Winchester April-June 1941 |
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Obituary |
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"One by one the old Everton
stalwarts of half a century ago are being taken from us. A month or so ago
the death took place of Alf Milward, the Blue's famous winger and English
international." -
Liverpool Echo, Wednesday, 16 July 1941. |
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Cassie Milward died in 1946 |
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Source |
 Douglas Lammings' An
English Football Internationalist Who's Who [1990] & |
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Playing Career |
Club(s) |
Started
his early career football with his old school team, the Old Borlasians FC.
"He came to the Everton ranks from the Great Marlow Club [in September 1888].
At that time he was only seventeen years of age. For a long time he was
played in the second string, but so consistent with his form that, a
vacancy occurring one Saturday, he was given a trial, and since he has
acquitted himself so well that he has never gone back for a single day." In December 1896, Milward served a suspension for
kicking a fellow player, Liverpool FC's McCartney. Then, on 11 May 1897,
despite Everton FC receiving an offer from Dundee FC for Milward, he
joined non-league New Brighton Tower FC, with no fee being paid. Tower
were admitted to the League on 27 May 1898.
Southampton FC signed Milward on 2 May 1899, and he completed 56
Southern League appearances, scoring 36 goals, before signing with New Brompton FC in
July 1901 as club captain. He signed for Reading FC on 16 October 1903. A
knee injury a week later effectively ended his playing career. In January
1905, Milward was assisting Southampton Cambridge FC, a local club in the
Southampton Junior League, he was their captain by March 1906.
- Sporting Life, 25 March 1893 |
League History
233 appearances,
103 goals
one expulsion |
Everton FC 1888-97 201 appearances,
84 goals.
debut: 10 November 1888 Blackburn Rivers FC 3 Everton FC 0.
New Brighton Tower FC 1898-99
32 appearances, nineteen goals.
debut (division two): 24 September 1898
New Brighton Tower FC 2 Glossop FC 2.
last (division two): 29 April 1899 Loughborough FC 6 New Brighton Tower
FC 0. |
Club honours |
Football
League runners-up 1889-90 (22ᵃ 10ᵍ) Champions 1890-91
(22ᵃ 11ᵍ); Division One runners-up 1894-95 (18ᵃ 10ᵍ);
FA Cup runners-up
1892-93 (7ᵃ 2ᵍ), 1896-97 (5ᵃ 3ᵍ), 1899-1900;
Southern League winners
1900-01; |
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Individual honours |
Football
League (one appearance) |
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Distinctions |
Milward
becoming a League Official for the Southern League when his playing days
counted down. |
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Height/Weight |
5' 8", 11st. 7lb
[1893], 5'
8½", 12st.
0lbs [1895]. |
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Source |
Douglas Lammings' An English
Football Internationalist Who's Who [1990] & ENFA. |
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England Career |
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Player number |
One of
six who became the 179th players
(184) to appear for England. |
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Position(s) |
Outside-left |
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First match |
No. 42, 7 March 1891, England 4
Wales 1, a British Championship match at Football Ground, Newcastle Road, Monkwearmouth, Sunderland, aged 20 years
176 days.
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Last match
6 years 27 days |
No. 61, 3 April 1897,
England 1
Scotland 2,
a British
Championship match at
The Sports Arena, Crystal Palace, Sydenham, London,
aged 26 years 203 days. |
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Major tournaments |
British Championship 1890-91, 1896-97; |
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Team honours |
British Championship winners 1890-91; |
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Individual honours |
The Whites
(one appearance March 1891)
The
Professionals (one appearance 1ᵍ, March 1897) |
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Distinctions |
First 1870's-born player to represent
England. |
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Beyond England |
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No additional information, but
according to census', he turned his hand to becoming a licensed victualler
in Southampton when he retired, and according to newspaper articles, ran a
successful business in Southampton. -
An English Football Internationalists' Who's Who.
Douglas Lamming (1990). Hatton Press, p.175/6. |
