George Clawley
Personal information | |||
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Date of birth | 10 April 1875 | ||
Place of birth | Scholar Green, England | ||
Date of death | 16 July 1920 | (aged 45)||
Place of death | Southampton, England | ||
Height | 6 ft 2 in (1.88 m) | ||
Position(s) | Goalkeeper | ||
Senior career* | |||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
1893–1894 | Crewe Alexandra | 3 | (0) |
1894–1896 | Stoke | 49 | (0) |
1896–1898 | Southampton | 42 | (0) |
1898–1899 | Stoke | 34 | (0) |
1899–1903 | Tottenham Hotspur | 82 | (0) |
1903–1907 | Southampton | 121 | (0) |
Total | 331 | (0) | |
*Club domestic league appearances and goals |
George Clawley (10 April 1875 – 16 July 1920) was an English professional goalkeeper who played for Stoke, Southampton and Tottenham Hotspur in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. He was the goalkeeper for the Spurs side that won the 1901 FA Cup final.
Career
Crewe Alexandra
Born at Scholar Green, near Congleton, he started his professional career with Crewe Alexandra in August 1893. He made three appearances for Crewe in the Football League Second Division in 1893–94 before being recruited by their First Division neighbours Stoke in September 1894.
Stoke
He soon displaced Bill Rowley in goal as Stoke struggled throughout the 1894–95 season finishing third from bottom and only avoiding relegation via the end of season test match.[1] The following season Stoke were more successful finishing in sixth place.[1] They also enjoyed an exciting FA Cup run to the quarter-finals where they were defeated 3–0 by Wolverhampton Wanderers.[1]
Southampton
In the summer of 1896 he was persuaded to move south to join Southampton who were about to embark on their third season in the Southern League. In his first two-year spell with The Saints he was ever-present, captaining the south coast club to the Southern League title in both 1896–97 and 1897–98.[2] According to Holley & Chalk's "The Alphabet of the Saints" Clawley was "one of the finest uncapped goalkeepers ever to grace the football field of England". He "possessed the physical requirements of height and reach that were to make him one of the greats around the turn of the century".[3]
In addition to their league success, Southampton reached the
Return to Stoke
In May 1898 he returned to the
Tottenham Hotspur
In 1899 he moved to London to join Tottenham Hotspur, then in the Southern League. He broke his leg shortly after joining Spurs, thus missing an entire season, but he returned in 1900 to play his part in Spurs' FA Cup winning run.[6] In the first match of the 1901 FA Cup final against Sheffield United, Spurs were 2–1 up (both goals from Sandy Brown) when in a goalmouth scramble Clawley turned the ball around the post for what should have been a corner. However, the referee Arthur Kingscott (despite being some way from the goalmouth) awarded a goal and the match went to a replay.[7]
In the replay at Burnden Park, Bolton Spurs triumphed 3–1 on a wet and windy afternoon, and brought the Cup back to the south at last after eighteen years, thus becoming the first (and only) non-League team to win the Cup.
Return to Southampton
Clawley returned to Southampton in 1903, replacing
After football
After retiring from the game, he became landlord of the Wareham Arms Hotel in Southampton. He died on 16 July 1920 aged 45.
Career statistics
Source:[8]
Club | Season | League | FA Cup | Test Match | Total | |||||
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Division | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | ||
Crewe Alexandra | 1893–94 | Second Division | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | 3 | 0 | |
Total | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | 3 | 0 | |||
Stoke | 1894–95 | First Division | 23 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 26 | 0 |
1895–96 | First Division | 26 | 0 | 4 | 0 | — | 30 | 0 | ||
Total | 49 | 0 | 6 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 56 | 0 | ||
Southampton | 1896–97 | Southern League | 20 | 0 | 7 | 0 | — | 27 | 0 | |
1897–98 | Southern League | 22 | 0 | 9 | 0 | — | 31 | 0 | ||
Total | 42 | 0 | 16 | 0 | — | 58 | 0 | |||
Stoke | 1898–99 | First Division | 34 | 0 | 6 | 0 | — | 40 | 0 | |
Total | 34 | 0 | 6 | 0 | — | 40 | 0 | |||
Tottenham Hotspur | 1899–1900 | Southern League | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | 8 | 0 | |
1900–01 | Southern League | 25 | 0 | 8 | 0 | — | 33 | 0 | ||
1901–02 | Southern League | 20 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | 20 | 0 | ||
1902–03 | Southern League | 29 | 0 | 4 | 0 | — | 33 | 0 | ||
Total | 82 | 0 | 12 | 0 | — | 94 | 0 | |||
Southampton | 1903–04 | Southern League | 31 | 0 | 2 | 0 | — | 33 | 0 | |
1904–05 | Southern League | 31 | 0 | 3 | 0 | — | 34 | 0 | ||
1905–06 | Southern League | 22 | 0 | 2 | 0 | — | 24 | 0 | ||
1906–07 | Southern League | 37 | 0 | 3 | 0 | — | 40 | 0 | ||
Total | 121 | 0 | 10 | 0 | — | 131 | 0 | |||
Career total | 331 | 0 | 50 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 382 | 0 |
Honours
Tottenham Hotspur
Southampton
- 1903–04
References
- ^ ISBN 0-9524151-0-0.
- ISBN 0-907969-22-4.
- ISBN 0-9514862-3-3.
- ISBN 0-9534474-1-3.
- ^ "Stoke City 1 v 3 Derby County – 18 March 1899". stokecity-mad.co.uk. Retrieved 3 December 2007.
- ^ "George Clawley". Spartacus Educational. Retrieved 10 December 2010.
- ^ "FA Cup Final 1901". fa-cupfinals.co.uk. Archived from the original on 27 December 2007. Retrieved 3 December 2007.
- ^ George Clawley at the English National Football Archive (subscription required)