Amos Baddeley
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Amos Baddeley | ||
| Date of birth | 1887 | ||
| Place of birth | Fegg Hayes, Stoke-on-Trent, England | ||
| Playing position | Inside-forward | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps† | (Gls)† |
| – | Fegg Hayes | ||
| 1906–1907 | Stoke | 19 | (6) |
| 1908–1909 | Blackpool | 32 | (3) |
| 1909–1912 | Stoke | 73 | (42) |
| – | Walsall | ||
| – | Abertillery | ||
| – | Ebbw Vale | ||
| * Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. † Appearances (Goals). |
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Amos Baddeley (born 1887 in Fegg Hayes, Stoke-on-Trent, England) was an English footballer who played in the Football League for Stoke and Blackpool. He made 101 appearances for Stoke.[1]
[edit] Career
Baddeley started playing football for his local amateur side in Fegg Hayes. He was signed up by league side Stoke in 1906 after poor finances lead to the club looking in the local leagues for players. He made his professional debut in a 3–1 defeat away at Sunderland in March 1907. Baddeley became a regular in the side the following season as he played fifteen matches scoring six goals. However Stoke's financial crisis worsened and the club entered into liquidation. As a result Stoke left The Football League and thus many of their players left the club. Baddeley joined Blackpool for the 1908–09 season before re-joining Stoke in the Birmingham and Southern leagues. He developed a prolific strike partnership with Arthur Griffiths as the two of them scored 60 league goals between them during the 1909–10 season. He played one more season for Stoke before leaving in 1912 to join Walsall. He later went on to play for Abertillery and became player-manager at Ebbw Vale.[2]
[edit] Career statistics
| Club | Season | League | FA Cup | Total | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | ||
| Stoke | 1906–07 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 |
| 1907–08 | 15 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 15 | 6 | |
| Blackpool | 1908–09 | 32 | 3 | 32 | 3 | ||
| Stoke | 1909–10 | 30 | 24 | 2 | 1 | 32 | 25 |
| 1910–11 | 42 | 18 | 3 | 3 | 45 | 21 | |
| 1911–12 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | |
| Career Total | 124 | 51 | 5 | 4 | 129 | 55 | |
[edit] References
- ^ Matthews, Tony: "The Encyclopedia of Stoke City " (Lion Press, 1994, ISBN 1-85983-100-1)
- ^ *Lowe, Simon: "Stoke City The Modern Era - A Complete Record" (Desert Island Books, ISBN 1-874287-39-2).
