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Ernie
Simms |
Luton Town FC
1 appearance, 0 goals
P 1 W 0 D
1 L 0 F 1: A 1
50% successful
1921
captain: none
minutes played: 90 |
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Timeline |
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Ernest Simms |
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Birth |
22 July 1891 at 74 Pilgrim Street, Murton
Colliery, Easington, County Durham [registered in
Easington, September 1891].
His death registration confirms
his birthdate. The 1939 register states that he was born on 23 January
1891, but if he was, surely he would have a March registration, as well as
an 1891 census entrant. |
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According to the 1891
census, Annie. who is pregnant with her fourth child who will become
Ernest, is living with her husband, a deputy overman at the coalmine, at
74 Pilgrim Street in East Murton. |
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According to the 1901
census, Ernest is the fourth of five children, to Oliver and Annie, living
at 537 John Williamson Street in South Shields. His father is a coal
trimmer. |
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According to the 1911
census, Ernest is a stoneman in the coalmines, he and his younger sister,
Sarah Jane, still live at home with their parents at 324 Alice Street in
South Shields. His father is still a trimmer in the same mines.
According to his army attestation on 16 December 1914, stated as living at
31 Kenilworth Road in Luton, his father, the next of kin, was living at 5
Florence Street in South Shields. He re-enlisted on 8 September 1915 and
joined the RAF as a signaller. By which he was married and living at 113
Guildford Street in Luton. He was discharged on 15 October 1918 to return
to the mines. |
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Marriage |
to Grace Roberts
[registered in Luton, March 1916]. |
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According to the 1921 census,
Ernest is now a professional footballer (for Luton Town FC) and is now
married to Grace and they have two children, Greta and Ernest. They live
at 8 Aldwych Street in South Shields. |
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According to the 1939 register, Ernest, a sheet metal inspector for
Vauxhall motor works, is married to Grace, a hat trimmer, and are living
at 2 Winch Street in Luton, along with children, Greta J. and Ernest. |
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Death |
11 October
1971, aged
80 years 81 days
[registered in Biggleswade, Befordshire]. |
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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 career with South Shields Adelaide FC. Also played with Murton
Colliery FC, from where he signed for Barnsley FC. Luton Town FC signed
Simms in 1913. Member of the Footballers' Battalion during the war, as
well as the Royal Field Artillery, where he
received a serious hip injury in France on 2 May 1918. Despite
that, he remained with Luton and scored 109
goals in 160 league appearances, when he returned north with South
Shields FC on 10 March 1922 for a little over a £1000. He was
placed on their transfer list in December 1922, with four clubs vying for
him, but he remained with the club until he was suspended on 13 December
1923, followed swiftly by a transfer to
Stockport County FC on 3 January 1924, having made 51 league
appearances and scoring seventeen goals. At County,
he scored twenty goals in 66 league outings. Midland League side
Scunthorpe & Lindsey United FC signed him in July 1926 and after a
fall with the directors, he went to York City FC on 9
February 1928, he made just six league
appearances, scoring twice. |
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Club honours |
Southern League
Division Two runners-up
1913-14; Midland League winners
1926-27 (as captain); |
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Individual honours |
FA Charity Shield
runners-up with Professionals 1925; |
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Distinctions |
None |
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Height/Weight |
5'
9", 11st.
10lbs [1913], 5'
9", 12st.
7lbs [1922]. |
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Source |
Douglas Lammings' An English
Football Internationalist Who's Who [1990]. |
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England Career |
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Player number |
One of five who
became the 421st players (425) to
appear for England |
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Position(s) |
Centre-forward |
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Only match |
No. 127, 22 October 1921, Ireland 1
England 1, a British Championship match at Windsor Park, Donegall Avenue,
Belfast, aged 30 years
92 days. |
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Major tournaments |
British Championship 1921-22; |
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Team honours |
None |
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Individual honours |
FA Tour of
Australia 1925 (as captain); |
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Distinctions |
Second player from
a third tier club to represent England. |
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Beyond England |
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Worked latterly at Vauxhall Motors
and assisted their football team. -
An English Football Internationalists' Who's Who.
Douglas Lamming (1990). Hatton Press, p.224. |
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Ernie Simms - Career Statistics |
| Squads |
Apps |
comp. apps |
Mins. |
Goals |
goals ave.min |
comp. goals |
Capt. |
Disc. |
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3 |
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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Ernie Simms
- 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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Away
-
British Championship |
1 |
0 |
1 |
0 |
1 |
1 |
=0 |
0 |
0 |
1.00 |
1.00 |
50.0 |
=0 |
| All |
1 |
0 |
1 |
0 |
1 |
1 |
=0 |
0 |
0 |
1.00 |
1.00 |
50.0 |
=0 |
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Ernie Simms
- 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 1921-22 |
1 |
0 |
1 |
0 |
1 |
1 |
=0 |
0 |
0 |
1.00 |
1.00 |
50.0 |
=0 |
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BC
All |
1 |
0 |
1 |
0 |
1 |
1 |
=0 |
0 |
0 |
1.00 |
1.00 |
50.0 |
=0 |
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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 |
1 |
0 |
1 |
1 |
=0 |
0 |
0 |
1.00 |
1.00 |
50.0 |
=0 |
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All |
1 |
0 |
1 |
0 |
1 |
1 |
=0 |
0 |
0 |
1.00 |
1.00 |
50.0 |
=0 |
Notes
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