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Jimmy Windridge

Chelsea FC

8 appearances, 7 goals

P 8 W 7 D 1 L 0 F 43: A 5
94% successful

1908-09

captain: none
minutes played:
720

Timeline

  James Edwin Windridge
Birth Saturday, 21 October 1882 in Sparkwood, Birmingham, Warwickshire
  registered in Aston October-December 1882
 

According to the 1891 census, James is the fourth of five children to James and Harriet (née Bird), living at 113 Bolton Road in Bordesley area of Aston, Birmingham. His father is a gun implement trimmer.

 

According to the 1901 census, James, a gun rifler for the Birmingham Small Arms Company, still lives at home with his parents with four of his siblings, three older, one younger, still at 113 Bolton Road. His father is the assistant foreman at the gunmakers.
His father died in 1905

 

According to the 1911 census, James is a professional footballer boarding with John Denoon in the Bragg household, at 43b Barclay Road in Fulham.

Marriage to Nellie Beatrice Copson, Saturday, 6 July 1918 at St. Bartholomew's Church, Edgbaston, Birmingham, Warwickshire. A lewis gunmaker by trade, living at 119 Bristol Road.
registered in King's Norton July-September 1918
According to the 1921 census, James Edwin is now married to Nellie Beatrice, and together they are living at 57 Evesham Road in the Crabbs Cross area of Redditch, where he is a publican at The Star & Garter Inn. They have one barmaid, Clara Mary Sutton.
According to the Midland Electoral Registers, James and Nellie occupied the Bulls Head (left) on Stratford Road from at least 1922 until his death.
His mother died on 8 January 1928.
Death Friday, 23 September 1939, at The Bull's Head Hotel, 1320 Stratford Road, Moseley, Birmingham, Warwickshire.
aged 56 years 337 days registered in Birmingham July-September 1939
Obituary
 
  According to the 1939 register, Nellie B. is now a widower, living at The Bull's Head in Moseley, as the manageress. Jimmy had died only six days prior to this register being taken.
Funeral Tuesday, 27 September 1939, at Lodge Hill Crematorium, Selly Oak, Birmingham
Probate "WINDRIDGE James Edwin of the Bulls Head Hotel 1320 Stratford-road Birmingham 28 died 23 September 1939 Probate Birmingham 11 November to Nellie Beatrice Windridge widow. Effects £2918 17s. 6d." [2025 equivalent: £165,256]
  His wife, Nellie, died on 22 November 1987 in Bromford Lane in Birmingham, aged 97 years

Source

Douglas Lammings' An English Football Internationalist Who's Who [1990] &

Playing Career


Club(s)
Began his junior career with local amateur side, Small Heath Alma FC before he joined the local league side, Small Heath FC in the 1902-03 close season. Chelsea FC, in April 1905, paid a £190 transfer fee for him. Middlesbrough FC then signed Windridge on 28 November 1911 for a fee exceeding £1000, before he returned to his roots when he returned to Birmingham FC on 8 April 1914. He retired from playing during WW1, although he did guest for the BSA football team during the war.

League honours

266 appearances, 83 goals
one expulsion
Small Heath FC 1903-05 26 appearances, seven goals
debut (division two): 31 January 1903 Small Heath FC 5 Burslem Port Vale FC 1.
Chelsea FC 1905-11 143 appearances, 54 goals
debut (division two): 2 September 1905 Stockport County FC 1 Chelsea FC 0.
Middlesbrough FC 1911-13 68 appearances, eleven goals
debut: 2 December 1911 Bolton Wanderers FC 1 Middlesbrough FC 0.
Birmingham FC 1914-15 29 appearances, eleven goals
debut (division two): 13 April 1914 Clapton Orient FC 2 Birmingham FC 2.
last (division two): 24 April 1915 Birmingham FC 1 Bristol City FC 1.
Club honours Football League Division Two runners-up 1902-03 (7ᵃ 5ᵍ), 1906-07 (31ᵃ 18ᵍ), 1911-12 (2ᵃ), third place 1905-06 (20ᵃ 14ᵍ), 1910-11 (4ᵃ 1ᵍ); Division One third place (15ᵃ 3ᵍ);
FA Cup semi-finalist 1910-11 (0ᵃ);
Individual honours None
Distinctions Also played first-class cricket for Warwickshire CCC (seven matches, 1909-13)
Height/Weight 5' 7", 11st. 7lbs [1908].

Source

Douglas Lammings' An English Football Internationalist Who's Who [1990].

England Career

Player number One of three who became the 330th players (332) to appear for England.
Position(s) Inside-left
First match No. 92, 15 February 1908, Ireland 1 England 3, a British Championship match at Solitude Ground, Cliftonville, Belfast, aged 25 years 117 days.
Last match No. 99, 13 February 1909, England 4 Ireland 0, a British Championship match at Horton Park Avenue, Horton Park, Bradford, aged 26 years 115 days.
Major tournaments British Championship 1907-08, 1908-09;
Team honours British Championship shared 1907-08, winners 1908-09;
Individual honours None
Distinctions Cousin of Alec Leake, through the Bird family
Died sixteen days after Tom Booth

Beyond England

Became a licensee, evidently first in The Woolpack Hotel, then in the Bull's Head Hotel, in the Hall's Green area of Birmingham. - An English Football Internationalists' Who's Who. Douglas Lamming (1990). Hatton Press, p.273.
Whilst he was a licensee, particularly in The Woolpack, Windridge organised snooker championships, to raise funds for the war effort, and also, on one account, for the men in Ruhleben Camp

 

Jimmy Windridge - Career Statistics
Squads Apps comp. apps Mins. goals ave.min comp. goals Capt. Disc.
8 8 4 720 7 103 min 2 none none
minutes are an approximation, due to the fact that many matches rarely stick to exactly ninety minutes long, allowing time for injuries and errors.

 

Jimmy Windridge - Match Record - All Matches
Type P W D L F A GD FTS CS FAv AAv Pts% W/L
Home 1 1 0 0 4 0 +4 0 1 4.00 0.00 100.0 +1
Away 7 6 1 0 39 5 +34 0 2 5.571 0.714 92.9 +6
All 8 7 1 0 43 5 +38 0 3 5.375 0.625 93.8 +7

 

Jimmy Windridge - Match Record - By Type of Match
Type P W D L F A GD FTS CS FAv AAv Pts% W/L
British Championship 4 3 1 0 15 3 +12 0 1 3.75 0.75 87.5 +3
Friendly 4 4 0 0 28 2 +26 0 2 7.00 0.50 100.0 +4
All 8 7 1 0 43 5 +38 0 3 5.375 0.625 93.8 +7

 

Jimmy Windridge - Match Record - Tournament Matches
British Championship Competition
Type P W D L F A GD FTS CS FAv AAv Pts% W/L
BC 1907-08 3 2 1 0 11 3 +8 0 0 2.667 1.00 83.3 +2
BC 1908-09 1 1 0 0 4 0 +4 0 1 4.00 0.00 100.0 +1
BC All 4 3 1 0 15 3 +12 0 1 3.75 0.75 90.0 +3
All Competition
Type P W D L F A GD FTS CS FAv AAv Pts% W/L
BC 4 3 1 0 15 3 +12 0 1 3.75 0.75 87.5 +3
All 4 3 1 0 15 3 +12 0 1 3.75 0.75 87.5 +3

 

Jimmy Windridge - Match History
 Club: Chelsea F.C. - 8 full appearances

F.A. International Select Committee - 8 full capsx

Age 25
1 92 15 February 1908 - Ireland 1 England 3, Solitude Ground, Belfast BC AW Start il
2 93 16 March 1908 - Wales 1 England 7, Cardiff Arms Park, Cardiff AW Start 25 il
3 94 4 April 1908 - Scotland 1 England 1, Hampden Park, Glasgow AD Start 74 il
4 95 6 June 1908 - Austria 1 England 6, Cricketer Platz, Wien tour AW Start 21, 38 il
5 96 8 June 1908 - Austria 1 England 11, Hohe Warte Stadion, Wien AW Start 6 il
6 97 10 June 1908 - Hungary 0 England 7, Millenáris Sportpálya, Buda-Pesth AW Start 30 il
7 98 13 June 1908 - Bohemia 0 England 4, Stadión Letná, Praha AW Start 38 il
Age 26
8 99 13 February 1909 - England 4 Ireland 0, Horton Park Avenue, Bradford BC HW Start il

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