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Fred Bartholomew
Personal information
Full name Frederick Charles Bartholomew[1]
Date of birth 3 January 1885
Place of birth Reading, England
Date of death 1979 (aged 93–94)[1]
Position(s) Utility player
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
0000–1904 Reading Biscuits
1904–1923 Reading 8 (0)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Frederick Charles Bartholomew (3 January 1885 – 1979) was an English professional football Utility player who played in the Football League for Reading.[1] He served the club as a player, coach and groundsman for 53 years.[2][3][4] As a utility player, his primary positions were centre half or full back.[2]

Personal life

Bartholomew served as a colour sergeant with the 17th (Service) Battalion of the Duke of Cambridge's Own (Middlesex Regiment) during the First World War.[5] After retiring from football in 1923, he spent three years on the coaching staff at Reading and then became groundsman at Elm Park until his retirement in 1957.[3]

Honours

Reading

Individual

References

  1. ^ a b c Joyce, Michael (2012). Football League Players' Records 1888 to 1939. Nottingham: Tony Brown. p. 19. ISBN 190589161X.
  2. ^ a b "Reading 1904–05". www.royalsrecord.co.uk. Retrieved 20 November 2017.
  3. ^ a b Riddoch, Andrew; Kemp, David (2010). When the Whistle Blows: The Story of the Footballers' Battalion in the Great War. Sparkford, Yeovil, Somerset: Haynes Publishing. p. 260. ISBN 978-0857330772.
  4. ^ "Bartholomew Fred Image 2 Reading 1907 – Vintage Footballers". vintagefootballers.com. Retrieved 20 November 2017.
  5. ^ "Frederick Bartholomew | Service Record | Football and the First World War". Football and the First World War. Retrieved 10 March 2016.
  6. ^ a b Low, Jonathan (8 April 2017). "STAR induct 13 new names into Reading FC's Hall of Fame". getreading. Retrieved 20 November 2017.