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Alfred
Stratford |
Malvern College AFC & Wanderers FC
1 cap, 0 goals
P 1 W 0 D 0 L 1 F 1:
A 2
0% successful
1874-76
disciplined: none
captaincies: none
minutes played: 90 |
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Profile |
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Full name |
Alfred Hugh Stratford |
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Born |
5 September 1853 in Kensington, London. [registered in
Kensington, September 1853]. |
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Census Notes |
According to the 1861 census,
Alfred H. 'Stafford' was the fourth child of six. His father, Hugh, was not in the census, but his mother, Annie, was 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, was lodging with the Savage's, at Alber's Villa, in
Mathon, Herefordshire. The family were 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 had died, and his mother however, was staying with her cousin,
Mary Cocks, at 23 Loughborough Road in Brixton. |
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Died |
2 May 1914 in
Newark, New Jersey, USA, aged
60 years
239 days. |
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Height/Weight |
not known. |
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Source |
Douglas Lammings' An
English Football Internationalist Who's Who [1990] & FindMyPast.com |
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Club 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; also represented Middlesex. |
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Club honours |
FA Cup winners
1875-76, 1876-77, 1877-78; |
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Individual honours |
None. |
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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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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 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, Glasgow, aged 20 years 183 days. |
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Major tournaments |
None. |
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Team honours |
None. |
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Individual honours |
None. |
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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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Alfred Stratford - Career Statistics |
| Squads |
Appearances |
Minutes |
Goals |
Goals
Ave. min |
Captain |
Discipline |
| 2 |
1 |
90 |
0 |
0
min |
None |
None |
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Due to the fact that
many matches rarely stuck to exactly ninety minutes long, allowing time
for injuries, errors and substitutions. The minutes here
given can only ever be a guideline and cannot therefore be accurate, only
an approximation. |
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Alfred
Stratford - 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 - Friendly |
1 |
0 |
0 |
1 |
1 |
2 |
-1 |
0 |
0 |
1.00 |
2.00 |
00.0 |
-1 |
| All |
1 |
0 |
0 |
1 |
1 |
2 |
-1 |
0 |
0 |
1.00 |
2.00 |
00.0 |
-1 |
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Alfred
Stratford - Match History |
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Club: Wanderers F.C. -
1 full cap |
Coach: F.A. International Select Committee - 2
full capsx
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Age 20 |
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1 |
3 |
7 March 1874 - Scotland 2 England 1,
The West of Scotland Cricket Ground, Hamilton Crescent, Glasgow |
Fr |
AL |
Start |
fb |
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Age
22 |
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5 |
4 March 1876 - Scotland 3
England 0,
The West of Scotland Cricket Ground, Hamilton Crescent, Glasgow |
Fr |
AL |
withdrawn |
Notes
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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