Edwin Freeman
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| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Edwin Freeman[1] | ||
| Date of birth | 5 June 1886[1] | ||
| Place of birth | Northampton, England[1] | ||
| Date of death | 1945 (aged 58–59) [1] | ||
| Position | Inside forward | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 1904–1905 | Stoke | 0 | (0) |
| 1905–1908 | Regent Templars | ||
| 1905–1920 | Northampton Town | 341 | (19) |
| Total | 341 | (19) | |
| * Club domestic league appearances and goals | |||
Edwin Freeman (5 June 1886 – 1945) was an English cricketer and footballer active from 1908 to 1920 who played for Northamptonshire and Northampton Town.
Career
[edit | edit source]Freeman began his football career as an amateur with Stoke in the 1904–05 season. He spent the campaign with the reserve side playing in the Birmingham & District League.[1] After a period with non-league side Regent Templars, he played 28 times for his home-town club Northampton Town in the 1920–21 season.[1]
Freeman appeared in sixteen first-class matches as a righthanded batsman who bowled right arm medium pace. He scored 133 runs with a highest score of 30 and took six wickets with a best performance of three for 62.[2]
Career statistics
[edit | edit source]| Club | Season | League | FA Cup | Total | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Division | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | ||
| Stoke | 1904–05[1] | First Division | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Northampton Town | 1920–21[1] | Third Division South | 25 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 28 | 2 |
| Career total | 25 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 28 | 2 | ||
Notes
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Categories:
- 1886 births
- 1945 deaths
- English cricketers
- Northamptonshire cricketers
- English men's footballers
- Stoke City F.C. players
- Northampton Town F.C. players
- English Football League players
- Men's association football inside forwards
- Footballers from Northampton
- 20th-century English sportsmen
- English cricket biography, 1880s birth stubs