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Alfred
Stratford |
Malvern College AFC & Wanderers FC
1 appearance, 0 goals
P 1 W 0 D 0 L 1 F 1:
A 2
0% successful
1874-76
captain: none
minutes played: 90 |
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Timeline |
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Alfred Hugh Stratford |
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Birth |
Monday,
5 September 1853 in Kensington,
Middlesex |
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no reference can be found for Stratford in any newspaper articles. |
registered in Kensington in
July-September 1853 Kensington was in Middlesex County Registration up until 1889 |
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According to the 1861 census, Alfred H.
'Stafford' is the fourth child of six. His father, Hugh, is not in the census, but his mother, Annie
(née Redgrave), i a
schoolmistress, living at 11 Stanley Gardens, St Mary Abbots in
Kensington, with five servants. |
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According to the 1871 census,
Alfred, a scholar, is lodging with the Savage's, at Alber's Villa, in
Mathon, Herefordshire. The family are living at Stanley Gardens in
Kensington. |
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According to the 1881 census,
Alfred H. is back at home with both his parents, the oldest of three
children, Edith and Fred in the household, at 18 Villa Road,
Lambeth. No occupations are stated, but they have one servant. |
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According to the 1891 census,
there is no Alfred, he maybe had left for the States before the census. His father has died, and his mother
is staying with her cousin,
Mary Cocks, at 23 Loughborough Road in Brixton. |
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Death |
Saturday, 2 May 1914 in
Newark, New Jersey, United States of America |
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aged
60 years 239 days |
no registration found |
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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) |
Stratford
attended and played for Malvern College, captaining them in 1874.
Became part of the Old Malvernians FC team, also Wanderers FC and Swifts
FC. |
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Club honours |
FA Cup winners
1875-76, 1876-77, 1877-78; |
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Individual honours |
Middlesex
FA |
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Distinctions |
Stratford also
played first class cricket for Middlesex and Herefordshire, as well as
United States of America. |
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Height/Weight |
not known. |
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Alfred Hugh Stratford
was in the Malvern XI in 1871 and two following years, and played occasionally
for Middlesex between 1877 and 1880. For the former in 1873 he made 703 runs
with an average of 32.40, scoring 149 v. Cotswold Magpies and 120 v. Rev. H.
Foster's XI, and took 62 wickets for under thirteen runs each.
Scores and
Biographies said of him:-- A good and free hitter, and his bowling is slow
and twisting, breaking both ways, being very difficult to operate against at
times. In the field he is excellent, generally taking cover-point or long-leg.
His highest score in first-class cricket was 55 not out v. Gloucestershire at
Clifton in 1879, and his best feat with the ball to take five wickets for 12
runs for M.C.C. and G. v. Yorkshire at Lord's in 1879. In 1876 he took 17
wickets out of 20 for Incogniti v. Ealing, on the Ealing ground, and 18 out of
20 (besides making a catch) for Kensington Park v. Bickley Park at Notting Hill.
Whilst in America he played with success for Winnipeg, Pittsburgh, New
York and Newark, and when appearing for New York XVIII against the
Australians in 1893 scored 25, the only double-figure, in his side's first
innings. Mr. Stratford was famous at Association football in the early
days of the game. He played for the Wanderers when they won the FA Cup in
1876, 1877, and 1878. - Wisden
Cricketers' Almanack |
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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
seven who became the
21st players
(22) to appear
for England. |
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Position(s) |
Full-back |
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Only match |
No. 3, 7 March 1874,
Scotland 2 England 1, a friendly match at The West of
Scotland Cricket Ground, Hamilton
Crescent, Partick, Glasgow, aged 20 years 183 days. |
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Individual honours |
The South
(postponed, January 1879); The Probables (February 1879);
The Whites (February 1879); |
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Distinctions |
None |
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Beyond England |
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Emigrated to
America, around 1890. -
An English Football Internationalists' Who's Who.
Douglas Lamming (1990). Hatton Press, p.239/40. |
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The Numbers |
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parties |
Appearances |
withdrew |
minutes |
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captain |
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1 |
one |
90 |
0 |
none |
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The minutes here given
can only ever be a guideline and cannot therefore be accurate, only an
approximation. |
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P |
W |
D |
L |
F |
A |
GD |
FTS
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CS |
FAv |
AAv |
Pts% |
W/L |
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1 |
0 |
0 |
1 |
1 |
2 |
-1 |
0 |
0 |
1 |
2 |
0 |
-1 |
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His only match was a friendly match and at an away venue |
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