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Charlie
Shelton
Profile |
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Full
name |
Charles Shelton |
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Popular name |
Charlie Shelton |
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Born |
22 January 1864 |
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Died |
1899, aged 35
years [although no evidence of his death can be found] |
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Height/Weight |
- |
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Club Career |
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Club(s) |
Played
junior football in Nottingham before joining Notts Rangers FC.
Joined Notts County FC in cs 1888 and remained there until 1892; |
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Club honours |
None |
| Individual
honours |
None |
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Distinctions |
None. |
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England Career |
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Player
number |
One of
five players who became the 147th player to appear
for England. |
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Position(s) |
Left-half. |
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Only match |
No. 34, 7 April
1888, Ireland 1 England 5, a British Championship match at Ulster
Cricket Ground, Ballynafeigh Park, Belfast. Aged 24 years 76 days; |
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Major
tournaments |
British
Championship 1887-88; |
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Team honours |
British
Championship 1887-88; |
|
Individual
honours |
None. |
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Distinctions |
Older brother of Alf Shelton; |
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Beyond
England |
|
He died an untimely death in 1899, aged
only 35. Although no evidence can be found of when or where, or even
how. -
An English Football Internationalists' Who's Who. Douglas Lamming
(1971). Hatton Press, p.222. |