Edgar Page
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| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Born |
31 December 1884 Wolverhampton, England | ||
| Died |
12 May 1956 (aged 71) Wolverhampton, England | ||
| Playing position | Centre-half | ||
| Senior career | |||
| Years | Team | ||
| 1901–1911 | Wolverhampton | ||
| 1912–1913 | Penn Fields | ||
| National team | |||
| Years | Team | Caps | |
| 1907–1920 | England | 15 | |
Medal record | |||
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Edgar Wells Page (31 December 1884 – 12 May 1956) was an English former field hockey player, who won a gold medal with the Great Britain team at the 1908 Summer Olympics in London.[1]
Biography
[edit | edit source]Page was educated at Repton School and played club hockey for Wolverhampton and won 15 caps for England.[2] He represented Staffordshire at county level.[3]
He also played cricket for Staffordshire in the Minor Counties Championship from 1905 to 1927,[4] as well as playing a single first-class match for the Minor Counties against HDG Leveson-Gower's XI in 1924.[5][6]
During World War I he won the Military Cross.[2]
After his playing days he continued his career as a chartered accountant.[2]
References
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External links
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Categories:
- 1884 births
- 1956 deaths
- English male field hockey players
- English Olympic competitors
- Olympic field hockey players for Great Britain
- British male field hockey players
- Field hockey players at the 1908 Summer Olympics
- Olympic gold medallists for Great Britain
- English cricketers
- Staffordshire cricketers
- Minor Counties cricketers
- Olympic medalists in field hockey
- Medalists at the 1908 Summer Olympics
- 20th-century English sportsmen
- British field hockey Olympic medallist stubs
- English cricket biography, 1880s birth stubs
- English field hockey biography stubs