Charlie Freeman
Personal information | |||
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Full name | Charles Redfearn Freeman[1] | ||
Date of birth | 22 August 1887 | ||
Place of birth | Overseal, Derbyshire, England | ||
Date of death | 17 March 1956[2] | (aged 68)||
Place of death | Fulham, London, England | ||
Position(s) | Inside forward | ||
Senior career* | |||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
–1906 | |||
1906–1907 | Burton United | 31 | (3) |
1907 | |||
1907–1908 | Fulham | 0 | (0) |
1908–1921 | Chelsea | 95 | (21) |
1921–1923 | Gillingham | 82 | (21) |
Maidstone United | |||
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only |
Cricket information | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Batting | Right-handed batsman | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Domestic team information | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Years | Team | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
1911 | Derbyshire | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
First-class debut | 1 July 1911 Derbyshire v Northamptonshire | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Career statistics | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Source: [1], November 2011 |
Charles Redfearn Freeman (22 August 1887 – 17 March 1956) was an English professional footballer who played in the Football League for Chelsea, Gillingham and Burton United as an inside forward.[1][3][4] After his retirement, he served Chelsea as trainer and groundsman.[5] Freeman was also a cricketer and played one first-class cricket match for Derbyshire in July 1911.[6]
Personal life[]
Freeman served as a corporal in the Royal Air Force during the First World War and worked at the Royal Aircraft Factory.[2]
Career statistics[]
Club | Season | League | FA Cup | Total | ||||
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Division | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | ||
Burton United | 1906–07[2] | Second Division | 31 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 34 | 3 |
Chelsea | 1908–09[2] | First Division | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 |
1909–10[2] | 9 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 9 | 2 | ||
1910–11[2] | Second Division | 18 | 2 | 5 | 1 | 23 | 3 | |
1911–12[2] | 15 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 15 | 7 | ||
1912–13[2] | First Division | 11 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 11 | 3 | |
1913–14[2] | 21 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 23 | 5 | ||
1914–15[2] | 15 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 17 | 2 | ||
1919–20[2] | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 0 | ||
Total | 95 | 21 | 10 | 1 | 105 | 22 | ||
Gillingham | 1921–22[2] | Third Division South | 40 | 11 | 4 | 3 | 44 | 14 |
1922–23[2] | 42 | 10 | 2 | 44 | 10 | |||
Total | 82 | 21 | 6 | 3 | 88 | 24 | ||
Career total | 208 | 45 | 19 | 4 | 227 | 49 |
Honours[]
Chelsea
- Football League Second Division second-place promotion: 1911–12[2]
References[]
- ^ a b Joyce, Michael (2012). Football League Players' Records 1888 to 1939 (Third edition, with revisions ed.). Toton, Nottingham. p. 104. ISBN 978-1-905891-61-0. OCLC 841581272.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n "Charlie Freeman". Football and the First World War. Retrieved 3 May 2020.
- ^ Triggs, Roger (2001). The Men Who Made Gillingham Football Club. Tempus Publishing Ltd. p. 18. ISBN 0-7524-2243-X.
- ^ "Freeman Charlie Gillingham 1922". Vintage Footballers. Retrieved 3 May 2020.
{{cite web}}
: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ^ Churchill, Alexandra; Holmes, Andrew (15 July 2015). Over Land and Sea: Chelsea FC in the Great War. The History Press. ISBN 9780750965422.
- ^ "Player Profile: Charles Freeman". CricketArchive. Retrieved 30 December 2012.
External links[]
Categories:
- 1887 births
- 1956 deaths
- People from Overseal
- English footballers
- Association football inside forwards
- Overseal Swifts F.C. players
- Burton United F.C. players
- Fulham F.C. players
- Gillingham F.C. players
- Chelsea F.C. players
- Maidstone United F.C. (1897) players
- English Football League players
- Chelsea F.C. non-playing staff
- English cricketers
- Derbyshire cricketers
- Royal Air Force personnel of World War I
- Brentford F.C. wartime guest players
- English football forward, 1880s birth stubs