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Personal information
Full name Reginald Thomas Heygate
Date of birth (1857-08-11)11 August 1857
Place of birth Nympton St George, Devon
Date of death 4 March 1909(1909-03-04) (aged 51)
Place of death
Upper Clapton, London
Position(s) Forward
Youth career
1872–76 Forest School, Walthamstow
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1876–80 Oxford University
1880–81 Swifts
1881–82 Old Foresters
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

George Borlase Childs (11 August 1857 - 4 March 1909) was a

association footballer who played in the 1880 FA Cup final
.

Early life

Childs was the third son of Thomas Cave Childs, a clergyman from Nympton St George.[1] He was educated at Forest School, one of the earliest and most fervent hotbeds of the association game, and represented the school side in matches against adult sides from 1872.[2]

In 1876 he went up to Magdalen College, Oxford on a demyship,[3] and received his Bachelor of Arts in 1880.[4]

Football career

Forest School entered the

Kennington Oval, which the university side won 6–0.[5] He also played for the Essex representative side in a 1–1 draw against Surrey, also at the Oval, in February 1876.[6]

Having gone up to Oxford, he did not break into the university first XI until the 1878–79 season, and was in "rare form" in the first round of the 1878–79 FA Cup hammering of Wednesbury Strollers, although he did not score.[7] He did however score twice in Oxford's second round win over the Royal Engineers.[8]

Childs played in every round of the

Reginald Birkett.[12]

As he graduated in 1880, he was no longer eligible to play for Oxford University, and joined the Swifts of Slough for the 1880–81 FA Cup, playing as a left- and right-sided forward in each of the Birds' two ties.[13] In the 1881–82 FA Cup he played for the Old Foresters in their quarter-final replay defeat to Great Marlow at the Swifts' Dolphin Ground;[14] it was his final recorded match.

Representative matches

He came close to representing England in international football; he was selected to play as a right-sided forward on 1 March 1879 fixture against Scotland at the Kennington Oval, but the match was postponed due to frost,

Aston Lower Grounds; Childs scored the opening goal of the match, but the Birmingham FA ran out 5–2 winners.[17]

He obtained his

blue by playing in the Varsity match in 1879 and 1880, both of which Cambridge University won - Oxford was particularly unlucky in the timing of the latter as the match fell between the original semi-final and replay against the Royal Engineers in the Cup.[18]

Post-football career

He was ordained in 1881, and was curate of St. Mary-the-less,

Haringey, in 1901–2.[19]

He died on 4 March 1909, at Brook House,

Upper Clapton; he had been living in Deal, Kent at the time. His estate was left to his younger brother Charles.[20]

References

  1. ^ "Announcement". Royal Cornwall Gazette. 21 August 1857.
  2. ^ "Notes and notions". Sportsman: 8. 28 November 1872.
  3. ^ "Oxford University". Globe: 5. 1 July 1876.
  4. ^ Foster, Joseph (1891). Alumni Oxoniensis vol I. Oxford: Oxford University Press. p. 248.
  5. ^ "Oxford University v Forest School". Field: 551. 13 November 1875.
  6. ^ "Surrey v Essex". Essex Herald: 3. 8 February 1876.
  7. ^ "Oxford University v Wednesbury Strollers". Field: 612. 9 November 1878.
  8. ^ "Oxford University v Royal Engineers". Sportsman: 4. 11 December 1878.
  9. ^ "Maidenhead v Oxford University". Maidenhead Advertiser: 3. 18 February 1880.
  10. ^ "Association Challenge Cup". Field: 289. 6 March 1880.
  11. ^ "Oxford University v Nottingham Forest". Bell's Life: 10. 27 March 1880.
  12. ^ "Association Challenge Cup - Final Match". Athletic News: 3. 14 April 1880.
  13. ^ "Clapham Rovers v Swiftsw". Bell's Life: 10. 15 January 1881.
  14. ^ "Great Marlow v Old Foresters". Bell's Life: 12. 25 February 1882.
  15. ^ "England v Scotland". Sheffield Independent: 7. 27 February 1879.
  16. ^ "England 5 Scotland 4". England Football Online. Retrieved 11 April 2024.
  17. ^ "Inter-association match - London v Birmingham". Birmingham Daily Gazette: 6. 9 February 1880.
  18. ^ Bruce-Kerr, J; Abrahams, Harold (1931). Oxford versus Cambridge. London: Faber & Faber. pp. 307–8.
  19. ^ "Obituary". Bath Chronicle. 11 March 1909.
  20. ^ Calendar of the grants of probate and letters of administration A.B.C. Claremont: HMSO. 1909. p. 359.
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