Harry Offer

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Harry Offer
Personal information
Full name Henry Thomas Offer
Date of birth (1869-07-15)15 July 1869
Place of birth Rowde, England
Date of death 12 January 1947(1947-01-12) (aged 77)
Place of death Newport, Isle of Wight, England
Position(s)
Outside-right
Youth career
1887–1889 Swindon Town
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1889–1891 Royal Arsenal 0 (0)
1891 Burnley 0 (0)
1891–1893 Swindon Town 0 (0)
1893–1895 Southampton St Mary's 13 (4)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Henry Thomas Offer (15 July 1869 – 12 January 1947)[1] was an English footballer who scored Arsenal's first-ever goal in the FA Cup "proper" rounds in 1891, and Southampton's first-ever league goal in 1894.

Football career

Swindon Town

Offer was born ar

1888–89, both of which ended in defeat, to Old Brightonians[2] and Great Marlow[3]
respectively.

Royal Arsenal

In September 1889, Offer moved to London to join

The following season, they entered the cup at the First Round proper, losing 2–1 to Derby County on 17 January 1891 with Offer scoring Arsenal's goal.[4] In total, Offer played four times in the FA Cup for Arsenal, with one goal to his name,[5] as well as 52 appearances and 16 appearances in other first-team games.[6]

Return to Swindon Town

In February 1891, Offer moved to join

first-team, before returning to Swindon Town later that year. Now playing as a forward, he scored one of Swindon's goals in a 4–3 FA Cup qualifying round defeat to Luton Town on 3 October 1891.[8] The next season, he scored again at Cowes in the first qualifying round on 15 October 1892,[9] and played in the next three qualifying round matches, with Swindon going out to Marlow
once again.

Southampton

Offer moved to

Royal Artillery 5–0 in the final, with Offer scoring twice.[10]

In

Chatham.[12]

A week later, on 13 October 1894, Southampton met Newbury in the first qualifying round of the FA Cup. Saints were "in particularly rampant mood" and won 14–0, with Offer scoring twice; this is still Southampton's biggest victory in a competitive match.[11] Offer scored a hat-trick in a 7–3 victory over Marlow (gaining a measure of revenge for the defeats whilst with Swindon Town) in the third qualifying round as the Saints went on to reach the First Round proper for the first time, going out 1–4 to Football League First Division opponents Nottingham Forest.[11]

Saints finished third in

the league with Offer scoring four goals, to bring his total for the season to ten goals from eighteen appearances.[11]

At the end of the season, Offer retired from his professional football career and resumed his previous trade of

joiner, settling on the Isle of Wight, where he died in January 1947.[7]

References

  1. ^
    ISBN 978-0-9926-8640-6
    .
  2. ^ "Old Brightonians 1 Swindon Town 0 (Match summary)". Swindon Town F.C. 8 October 1887. Retrieved 7 March 2009.
  3. ^ "Swindon Town 2 Great Marlow 5 (Match summary)". Swindon Town F.C. 27 October 1888. Retrieved 7 March 2009.
  4. ISBN 1-899807-19-5
    .
  5. ^ Arsenal career summary
  6. ISBN 978-1-899429-03-5
    .
  7. ^
    ISBN 0-9514862-3-3
    .
  8. ^ "Luton Town 4 Swindon Town 3 (Match summary)". Swindon Town F.C. 3 October 1891. Retrieved 7 March 2009.
  9. ^ "Cowes 1 Swindon Town 2 (Match summary)". Swindon Town F.C. 15 October 1892. Retrieved 7 March 2009.
  10. ^
    ISBN 0-907969-22-4
    .
  11. ^ a b c d Saints – A complete record. pp. 16–17.
  12. ISBN 0-9534474-1-3
    .

External links
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