Military Wiki
in: Pages containing cite templates with deprecated parameters, Pages using infobox Christian leader with unknown parameters, Articles incorporating text from Wikipedia,
and 30 more

Angus Seed

Sign in to edit
Angus Seed
Personal details
Born (1893-02-06)6 February 1893
Lanchester, England
Died 7 February 1953(1953-02-07) (aged 60)[1]
Barnsley, England[1]

Angus Cameron Seed MM (6 February 1893 – 7 February 1953) was an English professional football right back, best remembered for his 16 years as manager of Barnsley in the Football League.[3] He had a long playing career in non-league football and after retiring,[2] was Aldershot's first-ever manager and worked as a scout for Charlton Athletic .[4][5]

Personal life[]

Seed's younger brother Jimmy was also a footballer.[6] Seed fought with the 17th (Service) Battalion of the Duke of Cambridge's Own (Middlesex Regiment) during the First World War.[6] On the night of 1–2 June 1916, he won the Military Medal for his actions as a stretcher bearer on Vimy Ridge,[7] dragging wounded men back to the British dugouts under heavy fire.[6] One of the men Seed dragged back, former Arsenal assistant trainer Tom Ratcliff, would later become Seed's trainer at Barnsley .[8] Later in June 1916, Seed received a shrapnel wound in the right hip,[9] which eventually caused him to retire from football.[1] He died of chronic bronchitis at Kendray Hospital in Barnsley on 7 February 1953.[1]

Honours[]

Aldershot

  • Southern League Eastern Division: 1929–30[4]

Barnsley

  • Football League Third Division North: 1938–39[3]

Career statistics[]

Club Season League National Cup Total
Division Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals
Leicester Fosse 1913–14[10] Second Division 3 0 0 0 3 0
St Bernard's 1919–20[11] Central League 1 0 0 0 1 0
Broxburn United 1922–23[11] Scottish Second Division 32 0 1 0 33 0
Career total 36 0 1 0 37 0

References[]

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 O'Kane, Doug. "Comment: No real excuses for Barnsley's dismal run, unlike in 1953 – Barnsley Sport from the Barnsley Chronicle". http://www.barnsley-chronicle.co.uk/sport/article/11286/comment-no-real-excuses-for-barnsleys-dismal-run-unlike-in-1953-. 
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 Joyce, Michael (2012). Football League Players' Records 1888 to 1939. Nottingham: Tony Brown. p. 259. ISBN 190589161X. 
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 "League Managers Association – ANGUS SEED". http://www.leaguemanagers.com/managers/angus-seed/. 
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 "The Manager Issue 22". p. 18. http://www.leaguemanagers.com/pages/publications/themanager/issue22/. 
  5. ↑ "Sam Bartram: Eternal showman". http://www.espnfc.co.uk/story/1025378/the-mavericks-sam-bartram. 
  6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 Hutchinson, John. "Leicester Fosse and the First World War: Part 10". http://www.lcfc.com/news/article/leicester-fosse-and-the-first-world-war-part-10-2329328.aspx. 
  7. ↑ 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. 163. ISBN 978-0857330772. 
  8. ↑ Phillips, Owen; Aloia, Andrew. "The Last Pass" (in en-GB). https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/resources/idt-sh/the_last_pass. 
  9. ↑ Riddoch & Kemp 2010, p. 106.
  10. ↑ "Angus Seed | Leicester City career stats – FoxesHistory". 26 June 2016. https://www.foxestalk.co.uk/history/players?pid=909. 
  11. ↑ 11.0 11.1 Litster, John. Record of Pre-War Scottish League Players. Norwich: PM Publications. 
All or a portion of this article consists of text from Wikipedia, and is therefore Creative Commons Licensed under GFDL.
The original article can be found at Angus Seed and the edit history here.
Community content is available under CC-BY-SA unless otherwise noted.