William Lindsay (English footballer)

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William Lindsay
Personal information
Full name William Lindsay[1]
Date of birth (1847-08-03)3 August 1847
Place of birth
Benares, British India
Date of death 15 February 1923(1923-02-15) (aged 75)
Place of death Rochester, England
Position(s) Full-back
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
Old Wykehamists
Wanderers
Crystal Palace
Civil Service
Gitanos
South Norwood
International career
1877 England 1 (0)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

William Lindsay (3 August 1847 – 15 February 1923) was an English amateur

1878 and made one appearance for England in 1877. He also played cricket for Surrey
between 1876 and 1882.

Career

Early life and education

Lindsay was born in

10th Regiment.[2] His father and most of his family were killed during the Indian Rebellion of 1857 at the Siege of Cawnpore.[3]

In 1858 he was admitted to

Indian Mutiny and remained at the college until 1865. At school he was a keen sportsman and played cricket for the Commoners XI between 1862 and 1864, as well as for the school football team. In 1860, he won the school wide jump competition and was second in the 100 yards. In 1863, he won both the high jump and the wide jump, followed by the high jump with pole in 1864 and the sack race the following year.[2]

Football career

Lindsay subsequently represented the Old Wykehamists before joining the Wanderers in 1875, now aged 28.

Lindsay played for

Kennington Oval before the first official international match played on 30 November 1872.[5] He qualified for Scotland as his father was born in Dundee in 1810; his grandfather had been Provost of Dundee
.

His first appearance for the Wanderers was against

Thomas Hughes and one by Charles Wollaston.[6]

The following season he again turned out regularly for the Wanderers, making a total of seven appearances, including three matches in another successful FA Cup campaign, as Wanderers again reached the final to be played against Oxford University.

Three weeks prior to the Cup Final he was one of seven debutants in the

Kennington Oval on 3 March 1877. According to Philip Gibbons, in the 1870s the England side "tended to be chosen on availability rather than skill alone"[7] The change in the England line-up made little difference to England's performance against the Scots who won the game 3–1, with England's consolation goal coming from Alfred Lyttelton; the Scots thus inflicted England's first international defeat on home soil in the sixth appearance between the two countries.[8]
Lindsay, along with four of the international debutants, was never selected again for international honours.

In the

1877 FA Cup Final, played against Oxford University at the Oval on 24 March, Arthur Kinnaird conceded an own goal to enable Oxford University to take the lead. A few minutes from time, the Wanderers equalised when Jarvis Kenrick slotted home a goal after a pass from Hubert Heron. The game finished level after 90 minutes; in extra time, Wanderers proved too strong for their opponents when Lindsay's initial shot was headed back to him by an Oxford defender. Following in, Lindsay was able to steer the ball past the keeper for the winning goal.[9][10]

In 1877–78, Lindsay appeared for Wanderers in the later stages of their FA Cup campaign, as they reached the final for the third consecutive year, and the fifth time in the first seven years of the competition. The

Final against the Royal Engineers was played at the Kennington Oval on 23 March. Wanderers won 3–1, with two goals by Jarvis Kenrick and one by Arthur Kinnaird. Wanderers were thus the cup winners for the third consecutive year; as a result, the Football Association awarded the Wanderers the cup outright – the offer was declined in a "highly sporting and honourable gesture"[11]
on condition that it could never be won outright.

Lindsay continued to turn out occasionally for the Wanderers until January 1880, when he was part of the side who were defeated 3–0 by Old Etonians in what turned out to be the Wanderers final FA Cup appearance.

During his football career, he also played for Crystal Palace, Civil Service, Gitanos and South Norwood as well as playing representative football for Surrey.

Cricket career

At Winchester, he played for the school cricket eleven in 1864 and 1865.

He joined Surrey in 1876, and in his seven seasons with the county he scored 987 runs at an average of 17.31. His highest innings was 74 against Middlesex at the Oval in 1877.[12] He also played cricket for Devon.[2]

Life outside sport

In 1867 he started work as a junior clerk in the store department of the

Viscount Enfield
before he retired in 1900.

He was married to Emily (who was four years older than he was), and they had a daughter, Lilias, and a son, William.

Lindsay died at his home in Rochester, Kent on 15 February 1923.

Sporting honours

Wanderers

  • 1878

See also

References

  1. ^ "William Lindsay". England Football Online. Retrieved 7 July 2018.
  2. ^ a b c Don Ambrose. "Brief profile of William Lindsay". cricketarchive. Retrieved 1 September 2008.
  3. ISBN 0-9550496-0-1
    .
  4. ISBN 1-905009-63-1
    .
  5. ^ "England Players Appearing for Other National Teams". www.englandfootballonline.com. Retrieved 1 September 2008.
  6. ^ "1876 FA Cup Final – match report". www.fa-cupfinals.co.uk. Retrieved 1 September 2008.
  7. ISBN 1-84426-035-6
    .
  8. ^ "England 1 – Scotland 3: 3rd March 1877 (Match summary)". www.englandstats.com. Retrieved 30 August 2008.
  9. ^ Cavallini. The Wanderers F.C. p. 49.
  10. ^ "1877 FA Cup Final". www.fa-cupfinals.co.uk. Retrieved 30 August 2008.
  11. ^ Cavallini. The Wanderers F.C. pp. 50–51.
  12. ^ "Surrey v Middlesex: August 1877 (Scorecard)". cricketarchive. Retrieved 2 September 2008.

External links

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