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
Timeline
no reference can be found for Stratford in any newspaper articles.	Alfred Hugh Stratford
Birth	Monday, 5 September 1853 in Kensington, Middlesex. [registered in Kensington, September 1853]. notes: Kensington was in the Middlesex Registration County up until 1889.
	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 (née Redgrave), was a schoolmistress, living at 11 Stanley Gardens, St Mary Abbots in Kensington, with five servants.
	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.
	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.
	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.
Death	Saturday, 2 May 1914 in Newark, New Jersey, United States, aged 60 years 239 days.
Source	Douglas Lammings' An English Football Internationalist Who's Who [1990] &
Playing Career
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.
Club honours	FA Cup winners 1875-76, 1876-77, 1877-78;
Individual honours	Middlesex FA
Distinctions	Stratford also played first class cricket for Middlesex and Herefordshire, as well as United States of America.
Height/Weight	not known.
Source	Douglas Lammings' An English Football Internationalist Who's Who [1990].
England Career
Player number	One of seven who became the 21st players (22) to appear for England.
Position(s)	Full-back
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.
Individual honours	The South (postponed, January 1879); The Probables (February 1879); The Whites (February 1879);
Distinctions	None
Beyond England
Emigrated to America, around 1890. - An English Football Internationalists' Who's Who. Douglas Lamming (1990). Hatton Press, p.239/40.
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

The Numbers
parties	Appearances	withdrew	minutes		captain
2	1	one	90	0	none
The minutes here given can only ever be a guideline and cannot therefore be accurate, only an approximation.

Match Record

apps	match	match details	comp	res.	rundown	pos

Age 20
1	3	7 March 1874 - Scotland 2 England 1 The West of Scotland Cricket Ground, Partick	Fr	AL		fb

one of seven who became the 21st (22) players to appear for England
the only player from Malvern FC to represent England
one of four players (seven) from Wanderers FC to become the seventh to represent England

Age 22
5	4 March 1876 - Scotland 3 England 0, The West of Scotland Cricket Ground, Partick	Fr	AL	withdrawn

Age 26 trial   two appearances (one more postponed appearance - The South vs. The North, 4/25 January 1879, Bramall Lane), The Probables ͨ vs. The Rest, 12 February 1879, Surrey Cricket Ground & The Whites vs. The Stripes, 26 February 1879, Surrey Cricket Ground.