Sam Chedgzoy

Samuel "Sam" Chedgzoy ( born January 27, 1889 in Ellesmere Port, † January 15, 1967 in Montreal) was an English footballer. The eight-time England international made ​​his version of a Eckballs for a change to the football rules.

Career

Career at Everton and for England

Chedgzoy played at the local level for Burnell 's Ironworks before it was discovered in 1910 by Fred Geary and brought to Everton. He was on Boxing Day of that year, the away game against Newcastle United his league debut for Everton, but managed only at the championship win in the 1914/15 season to play in the starting eleven, when he came to 30 inserts on the right wing and regularly Assists for striker Bobby Parker created. By the First World War the next four years was not a game mode instead of in the Football League, in 1919 put the English professional league game their continued operation. Chedgzoy belonged then to the fixed sizes of the team of toffees and developed into one of the best wingers in English football. In March 1920 he was appointed 31- year in the context of the British Home Championship against Wales for the first time in the England team and trained there, as well as in four other internationals, with Bob Kelly the right wing. By 1924, he brought it to a total of eight international appearances in the regular comparisons with the other Home Nations, his record of two wins, three draws and three defeats but was there more mixed.

Chedgzoy played for Everton until 1926, he completed a total of 300 for the Toffees Official matches, scoring 38 hits.

Careers in Canada

After Chedgzoy first came in the season break 1922 vacations to Canada two years later he trained during the summer break, the Army team of the Grenadier Guards in the Inter Provincial League and returned to England for the start of the season. In 1926 he moved to his departure from Everton in the American Soccer League with the New Bedford Whalers to Massachusetts, for which he came to 164 inserts. The beginning of 1930 he joined the Montreal Carsteel and became player-coach. He led the team several times in the Canadian Championship final, in addition to successes in the years 1936, 1939 and 1940 before they lost four times in 1931 until 1934. Chedgzoy himself took in 1939 50 - year participate in the games part.

In addition Chedgzoy came several times for representative teams from Quebec against foreign touring teams deployed, including against Glasgow Rangers and FC Kilmarnock in 1930, Celtic Glasgow in 1931 and 1933 Audax Italiano. Professionally, he was employed for 25 years at the vehicle manufacturer Canadian Car and Foundry in accounting. His son Sydney Chedgzoy (1911-1983) was also a professional footballer, and came in various English clubs to some missions.

Sam Chedgzoy died shortly before his 78th birthday in his adopted hometown of Montreal. He was inducted into the category of players in the Canadian Soccer Hall of Fame in 2005.