Eddie Mosscrop
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Personal information | |||
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Date of birth | 16 June 1892 | ||
Place of birth | Southport, England | ||
Date of death | 14 March 1980 | (aged 87)||
Height | 5 ft 6+1⁄2 in (1.69 m)[1] | ||
Position(s) | Outside left | ||
Senior career* | |||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
1912–1922 | Burnley | 176 | (19) |
National team | |||
1914 | England | 2 | (0) |
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only |
Edwin Mosscrop (16 June 1892 – 14 March 1980) was an English professional footballer who played as a winger. He won two caps for the England national football team in 1914 and was part of the Burnley side which won the FA Cup against Liverpool in 1914. He served with the British Army in Salonika during the First World War, before returning to Burnley in 1919. He was forced to retire from professional football in November 1922 due to a serious illness and subsequently returned to his hometown of Southport to work as a schoolteacher.
He was the last surviving pre-World War I England international, dying some 65 years after senior football was suspended following the outbreak of World War I, although he was outlived by a number of pre-World War I players to have seen Football League action; including some who survived in the 1990s.
Eddie was inducted into the Southport FC Hall of Fame on 16 November 2019. Grandson Gary Mosscrop accepted the award on behalf of his family from club historian Michael Braham.
References[]
- ^ Centaurus (22 August 1921). "First Division prospects. Burnley". Athletic News. Manchester. p. 5.
- Joyce, Michael (2004). Football League Players' Records 1888-1939. SoccerData.
- Simpson, Ray (2007). The Clarets Chronicles: The Definitive History of Burnley Football Club 1882–2007.
- 1892 births
- 1980 deaths
- Sportspeople from Southport
- English footballers
- England international footballers
- Association football wingers
- Burnley F.C. players
- English Football League players
- Burnley F.C. wartime guest players
- English Football League representative players
- FA Cup Final players
- British Army personnel of World War I
- English football midfielder, 1890s birth stubs