Michael Walford
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Men's field hockey | ||
1948 London | Team competition |
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Full name | Michael Moore Walford | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Born | Norton-on-Tees, County Durham, England | 27 November 1915||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Died | 16 January 2002 Sherborne, Dorset, England | (aged 86)||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Batting | Right-handed | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bowling | Left-arm slow | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Role | Batsman | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Years | Team | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
1935–38 | Oxford University | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
1946–53 | Somerset | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
1950–51 | Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
First-class debut | 11 May 1935 Oxford University v Lancashire | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Last First-class | 1 September 1953 Somerset v Nottinghamshire | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Source: CricketArchive, 12 July 2011 |
Michael Moore Walford (27 November 1915 – 16 January 2002), often known as "Micky Walford", was an all-round sportsman: a British
He was a member of the British field hockey team at the 1948 summer Olympic Games, held in London. The team won the silver medal. He played all five matches as half-back.
Background and education
Walford was educated at
As a rugby player, he first came to prominence as a 17-year-old when he was named as one of the centre three-quarters in the England public schoolboys' rugby team to play Scotland in the annual match at the start of 1933.[3] In the same fixture in the 1933/34 season Walford's defensive play was singled out in the report in The Times as a factor in the English side's victory.[4]
University sporting career
Walford was playing county standard rugby union before he went up to Trinity College, Oxford, in autumn 1934.[5] At Oxford, his first sporting success in November 1934 was to be selected for the university's hockey team, where he played at centre half.[6] But within four weeks he was also playing for the rugby first fifteen as several players were rested in advance of the University Match.[7] Hockey, however, remained Walford's main winter game in his first year at Oxford and he was awarded his Blue by the hockey captain, Jake Seamer, later to be a cricket colleague at Somerset: the match with Cambridge finished as a goal-less draw.[8]
References
- ^ "Olympians Who Played First-Class Cricket". Olympedia. Retrieved 28 July 2020.
- ^ "Prospects at the Schools", The Times, no. 46744, London, p. 6, 3 May 1934
- ^ "To-day's Schoolboys' Match", The Times, no. 46331, London, p. 6, 2 January 1933
- ^ "English Schoolboys Win", The Times, no. 46642, London, p. 5, 3 January 1934
- ^ "Rugby Union fixtures: Durham v Derbyshire", The Times, no. 46887, London, p. 6, 17 October 1934
- ^ "Hockey: Oxford's first victory", The Times, no. 46905, London, p. 5, 7 November 1934
- ^ "Oxford draw with Rosslyn Park", The Times, no. 46928, London, p. 5, 4 December 1934
- ^ "Hockey: The Oxford team", The Times, no. 46977, London, p. 6, 1 February 1935