Digby Owen

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Digby Owen
Personal information
Full name William Digby Owen
Date of birth 3rd qtr 1857
Place of birth Oswestry, Shropshire, England
Date of death 2 June 1901(1901-06-02) (aged 43)
Place of death Oswestry, Shropshire, England
Position(s) Forward
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1876–1880
Oswestry
International career
1879 Wales 1 (0)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

William Digby Owen (1857 – 2 June 1901) was a Welsh

Oswestry, for whom he also played cricket. He later became a private tutor and died of pneumonia
in his early forties.

Education

Owen was born in Oswestry, a few miles from the Welsh border within Shropshire, in the third quarter (i.e. July to September) of 1857,[1] son of George Owen (1827-1901), and educated at Oswestry School.[2] He attended Trinity College, Oxford from where he graduated with a B.A. degree in 1878.[3]

He was selected to represent Oxford University against Cambridge at football but was unable to play because of illness, thus missing out on a "blue".[3]

Football career

Described as "a fine athlete and a noted exponent of the dribbling game",

Oswestry in 1876, but his appearances were rather intermittent, as they were interrupted by his academic studies.[3]

In January 1879, he was one of nine players from Oswestry (including three who were spending a season with Oswestry as their own club,

William Davies scoring the Wales reply in the 47th minute.[5][7]

Owen also represented North Wales against Sheffield in 1877 and against Lancashire in 1879, and Shropshire against Staffordshire in 1879.[3]

Later career

On leaving Oxford, Owen settled back in Oswestry where he became a private tutor.[3] His football career was over by 1880 but he continued to play cricket for Oswestry[3] having played for Shropshire in 1877 and 1878.[8][9]

Owen died of pneumonia in June 1901, in his early forties.[3]

References

  1. ^ "William Owen". www.cricketarchive.com. Retrieved 6 December 2011.
  2. ISBN 1-902171-17-9
    .Published under Association of Cricket Statisticians and Historians. Owen's father, listed on the same page of the work, was an earlier Shropshire county cricketer.
  3. ^
    ISBN 1-872424-11-2
    .
  4. ^ Who's Who of Welsh International Soccer Players. p. 181.
  5. ^ a b "England 2 Wales 1". www.englandstats.com. 18 January 1879. Retrieved 6 December 2011.
  6. ^ "England match No. 8 (England 2 Wales 1)". www.englandfootballonline.com. Retrieved 6 December 2011.
  7. ^ "England 2 Wales 1". Welsh Football Data Archive. 18 January 1879. Retrieved 6 December 2011.
  8. ^ "Miscellaneous matches played by William Owen". www.cricketarchive.com. Retrieved 21 March 2024.
  9. ^ Shropshire Cricketers 1844-1998, pages 22,49.
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