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Dan
Tremelling |
Birmingham FC
1 appearance,
2 goals against
P 1 W 0 D 0 L 1 F
1:
A 2
0% successful
1927
captain: none
minutes played: 90 |
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Timeline |
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Richard Daniel Tremelling |
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Birth |
12 November 1897 at 26 Alma Road in Newhall,
Derbsyhire [registered in
Burton, December 1897]. |
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Baptism |
2 January 1898 at St. John's Church in Newhall |
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According to the 1901 census,
Richard D. is the sixth of seven children to Nicolas and Mary Ellen (née
Crofts),
living at 26 Alma Road in Newhall. His father is a coal mine hewer. |
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According to the 1911 census,
Richard Daniel is confirmed as one of twelve children, four have died and
four of them are on this return living with their parents at 26 Merchant
Street in Shirebrook. Thirteen year old Richard is working on the
coalbelts, at the same mine where his father remains a hewer. |
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Marriage |
to Edith
Everett, on 20 May 1918 at St. Peter & St. Paul's Church, Warsop
[registered in Mansfield, June 1918]. They had three children, Jack
(b.1918), Vera (b.29 January 1921) and Keith Everett (b.18 February 1927). |
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According to the
1921 census. Daniel is now a professional footballer (for Birmingham FC)
and is now married to Edith and along with two children, Jack and Vera,
they still live at 32 Merchant Street. |
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According to the 1939
register, Richard D., a Birmingham FC trainer, is married to Edith, and
with one child, Keith, they live at 42 Arden Oak Walk in the Sheldon area
of Birmingham. |
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Death |
15 August
1970, aged
72 years 276 days
[registered in Birmingham, September 1970]. |
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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) |
Tremelling
first played for Langworth Junction Wagon Works FC in the Mansfield Forest
Church League. He began as a
left-back, but after a few minutes into his debut, he was put in goal, and
remained between the sticks for the rest of his career. He was picked to
play for the Shirebrook FC team. During the war, he kept goal for Lincoln
City FC, until he signed for Birmingham FC on 14 May 1919, although the
Birmingham club had made their advancement of the goalkeeper manifest a
month before. He kept goal 382 times in th league. After
Harry Hibbs broke through into the first team, Tremelling left to join
Bury FC on 29 May 1933, he had already requested to be placed on the
transfer list back on 9 February 1929. He
completed 57 league appearances until his retirment in 1936. |
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Club honours |
Football League Division Two winners 1920-21;
FA Cup runners-up 1930-31; |
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Individual honours |
Football
League (three appearances) |
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Distinctions |
Brother of Bill
Tremelling (Blackpool FC and Preston North End FC centre-half) |
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Height/Weight |
5'
10", 10st.
12lbs [1927]. |
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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 three who
became the 524th
player (524)
to appear for England. |
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Position(s) |
Goalkeeper |
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Only match |
No. 158, 28 November 1927,
England 1 Wales 2, a British Championship match at Turf Moor, Brunshaw Bottom, Burnley, aged
30 years
14 days. |
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Major tournaments |
British Championship 1927-28; |
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Team honours |
None |
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Individual honours |
None |
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Distinctions |
Died seven days
after Jerry Dawson |
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Beyond England |
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Left school to work in the pits at
Worksop. Returned to St. Andrews on 1 July 1936 after leaving Bury FC to
become the assistant trainer until the war. After WWII, he was licensee of the Old Lodge Hotel in
Birmingham. -
An English Football Internationalists' Who's Who.
Douglas Lamming (1990). Hatton Press, p.249/50. |
