Hugh Edmonds

Hugh Edmonds (1877 – unknown) was a Scottish footballer who played as a goalkeeper.

Hugh Edmonds
Personal information
Full name Hugh Edmonds
Date of birth 1877[1]
Place of birth Chryston, Scotland
Height 5 ft 10 in (178 cm)
Position(s) Goalkeeper
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
– Ashfield
1901–1907 Hamilton Academical 125 (0)
1902 → Celtic 0 (0)
1907–1908 Distillery
1908–1909 Linfield
1909–1911 Bolton Wanderers 10 (0)
1911–1912 Manchester United 43 (0)
1912–1913 Glenavon
1913–? Distillery
National team
Irish League XI 1 (0)
Teams managed
1912–1913 Glenavon (player-manager)
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only

Career

Born in Chryston, Lanarkshire, Edmonds began his career with Hamilton Academical, where he was loaned to Celtic for a match in the one-off 1902 British League Cup, then won three Lanarkshire Cups and the 1903–04 Scottish Division Two title,[2][3] before moving across the Irish Sea to Belfast in 1907 to play for Distillery. He then played for Linfield before joining English Second Division champions Bolton Wanderers in October 1909. He played four times for Bolton in the First Division in 1909–10, but the club finished bottom of the league in 20th place and were relegated.[4] He made six more appearances in 1910–11, but spent most of the season in the reserve team.[4]

In February 1911, he moved to Manchester United as cover for the injured Harry Moger.[4] He made his debut in a 3–1 win at home to Bristol City on 11 February. With Edmonds in goal, Manchester United lost only two of their final 13 league matches and conceded just 12 goals as they went on to clinch their second league title by a single point over runners-up Aston Villa.[5] He claimed his second piece of silverware with the club at the start of the following season as Manchester United beat Swindon Town 8–4 in the 1911 FA Charity Shield, and retained his place in the team for much of the 1911–12 season; aside from five appearances for Moger (one in a 3–1 win over Aston Villa on 25 November and four more at the end of the season) and two for Ezra Royals (against Liverpool on 23 March and Aston Villa on 30 March), Edmonds played in every match. However, the team suffered a slump in form compared to the previous season and finished in 13th place.[6]

At the end of the season, he took the job of player-manager at Glenavon back in Ireland, before returning to Distillery a year later.

During his time in Ireland, Edmonds earned one cap for the Irish League XI.[7]

References
General
  • Dykes, Garth (1994). The United Alphabet: A Complete Who's Who of Manchester United F.C. Leicester: ACL & Polar Publishing (UK). ISBN 0-9514862-6-8.
  • Joyce, Michael (2004). Football League Players' Records 1888 to 1939. Nottingham: Tony Brown. ISBN 1899468676.
Specific
  1. Statutory registers - Births - Search results, ScotlandsPeople
  2. Edmonds, Hugh (1901), Hamilton Academical Memory Bank
  3. John Litster (October 2012). "A Record of pre-war Scottish League Players". Scottish Football Historian magazine. Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  4. Dykes (1994), p. 121.
  5. "1910/11". StretfordEnd.co.uk. Retrieved 13 March 2014.
  6. "1911/12". StretfordEnd.co.uk. Retrieved 13 March 2014.
  7. Joyce (2005), p. 82.
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