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Billy
Pease |
Middlesbrough FC
1 appearance,
0 goals
P 1 W 0 D
1 L 0 F 3: A 3
50% successful
1927
captain: none
minutes played: 90 |
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Profile |
Full name |
Willie Pease |
name notes |
Thought to be William Harold, but there are none.
Willie was one of only two Leeds-born Pease's, and besides, his death registry
confirms his actual name. Incidentally, the other was born in 1898. |
Born |
30 September 1899
at 7 Roxburgh Place, Leeds, West Riding of Yorkshire [registered in
Hunslet, December 1899]. |
Baptised |
22 November 1899 in St Peter's Church,
Hunslet Moor. By W. Gifford |
Census Notes |
According to the 1901
census, Willie is the youngest of two children, the older being Amy, to
Walter and Annie (née Castle). They live at 7 Roxburgh Place in Hunslet.
His father is a file grinder. |
According to the 1911
census, Willie now has three younger siblings, Harry, Lillie and Laurie,
still with their parents. Their father is still a file grinder and they
live at 4 Westwood Grove in Hunslet. According to passenger lists, Pease, along with other
footballers, was part of a tour of South Africa that returned to
Southampton on 5 August 1929 from Cape Town on board the SS Arundel
Castle. His address was stated as 48 Ayresome Street in Middlesbrough. |
According to the 1939 register, Willie is the
manager at The Leeds Hotel, on the Linthorpe Road in Middlesbrough. |
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Married: to
Maria Mercia Relph
[registered in Middlesbrough, June 1931]. Of which they had three
sons, William, Christopher and David. |
Died:
2 October 1955 in
Redcar,
aged
56 years 3 days
[registered in Cleveland, December 1955] from a brain
hemorrhage.
Buried in Redcar cemetery (left) |
Height/Weight:
5'
9½", 11st.
5lbs [1930]. |
Douglas Lammings' An
English Football Internationalist Who's Who [1990], Ancestry.com &
granddaughter, Vicky Pease |
Club Career |
Club(s) |
Began his career playing for Holbeck St. Barnabas FC, and during the war,
he was a Private with the Royal Northumberland Fusiliers, where he
improved his football.
Pease then joined his local league club, Leeds City AFC as an amateur
during the 1918/19 season. He was sold during an auction when City were
disbanded in October 1919, Pease signed amateur forms with Northampton Town FC
on 19 October. Middlesbrough
FC signed Pease on 19 May 1926 for a £2000 transfer fee and then
Luton Town FC signed him on 1 June 1933. On 18 December 1934, it was discussed that
Pease would become the player-manager of Gateshead FC, however, the club
was not in a financial position to employ him. Luton granted Pease a 'free
transfer' on 18 January 1935, allowing him to retire on
23 January 1935, choosing to enter the licensing trade despite being
offered terms to join
Hartlepools United FC. |
Club honours |
Football League Division Two winners 1926-27,
1928-29; |
Individual honours |
None |
Distinctions |
None |
Source |
Douglas Lammings' An English
Football Internationalist Who's Who [1990]. |
England Career |
Player number |
One
of five who became 512th
player (514) to appear for England.
The first Leeds-born player to be capped by England, and the only
until....tbc |
Position(s) |
Outside-right |
Only match |
No. 152, 12 February 1927,
Wales
3
England 3,
a British Championship match at
The Racecourse, Mold Road, Wrexham, aged 27 years
135 days. |
Major tournaments |
British Championship 1926-27; |
Team honours |
British Championship shared 1926-27; |
Individual honours |
FA Tour of
South Africa 1929; |
Distinctions |
Pease refereed
a match on 12 July 1939 between the England Ladies team and the Scotland
Ladies team, at Cleveland Park Stadium in Middlesbrough, in aid of the
North Riding Infirmary and North Ormesby Hospitals (Picture below). |
Beyond England |
After leaving the game, he was
employed as a licensee, firstly at The Leeds Hotel in Middlesbrough, then,
from 1940, in the The Roseberry in Stokesley.
Afterwhich he ran a bed & breakfast in Redcar, where he would later die. -
An English Football Internationalists' Who's Who.
Douglas Lamming (1990). Hatton Press, p.194/5./Vicky Pease |
England Disgrace |
"EX-FOOTBALLER FINED
"'Billy' Pease, licensee of
the Roseberry Hotel, Middlesbrough, and formerly Middlesbrough F.C.
international right winger, was fined 10s at Middlesbrough Police Court
yesterday, when he admitted having supplied a customer with a bottle of
beer after 10 p.m. on February 6. The customer, Walter I. Blance, of
Lydbrooke Road, Middlesbrough, was fined 7s 6d for aiding and abetting."
- Thursday, 27 February 1941, Newcastle Journal and North
Mail, |
Billy Pease - Career Statistics |
Squads |
Apps |
comp. apps |
Mins. |
Goals |
goals ave.min |
comp. goals |
Capt. |
Disc. |
1 |
1 |
1 |
90 |
0 |
0
min |
0 |
none |
none |
minutes are an approximation, due to the fact that many matches rarely stick to exactly ninety minutes long, allowing time for injuries and errors. |
Billy Pease
- Match Record - All Matches - By
Type of Match |
Type |
P |
W |
D |
L |
F |
A |
GD |
FTS
|
CS |
FAv |
AAv |
Pts
% |
W/L |
Away -
British Championship |
1 |
0 |
1 |
0 |
3 |
3 |
=0 |
0 |
0 |
3.00 |
3.00 |
50.0 |
=0 |
All |
1 |
0 |
1 |
0 |
3 |
3 |
=0 |
0 |
0 |
3.00 |
3.00 |
50.0 |
=0 |
Billy Pease
- Match Record - Tournament Matches |
British Championship Competition |
Type |
P |
W |
D |
L |
F |
A |
GD |
FTS |
CS |
FAv |
AAv |
Pts% |
W/L |
BC 1926-27 |
1 |
0 |
1 |
0 |
3 |
3 |
=0 |
0 |
0 |
3.00 |
3.00 |
50.0 |
=0 |
BC
All |
1 |
0 |
1 |
0 |
3 |
3 |
=0 |
0 |
0 |
3.00 |
3.00 |
50.0 |
=0 |
All Competition |
Type |
P |
W |
D |
L |
F |
A |
GD |
FTS |
CS |
FAv |
AAv |
Pts% |
W/L |
BC |
1 |
0 |
1 |
0 |
3 |
3 |
=0 |
0 |
0 |
3.00 |
3.00 |
50.0 |
=0 |
All |
1 |
0 |
1 |
0 |
3 |
3 |
=0 |
0 |
0 |
3.00 |
3.00 |
50.0 |
=0 |
Billy Pease
- Match History
Club:
Middlesbrough F.C.
- one full appearance (90 min) |
F.A. International Selection Committee - one full appearance
(90 min)x
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Notes
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FOR HOSPITALS.—The England captain (left), Margaret
Thornborough (Preston Ladies), meets the Scots captain, Mary Leslie (Edinburgh
Ladies), in the ladies’ international football match at Cleveland Park Stadium,
Middlesbrough, in aid of the North Riding Infirmary and the North Ormesby
Hospital. Behind are Billy Pease (referee) and Mr. G. Watts, of North Ormesby
Hospital. - Wednesday, 12 July 1939,
North-Eastern Gazette
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CG
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