Fred Bullock (footballer)

Fred Bullock
	Bullock while with Huddersfield Town in 1920.
Personal information
Full name	Frederick Edwin Bullock
Date of birth	1 July 1886
Place of birth	Whitton, England
Date of death	14 November 1922 (aged 36)
Place of death	Huddersfield, England
Height	5 ft 7+1⁄2 in (1.71 m)
Position(s)	Left back
Senior career*
Years	Team
1904–1908	Hounslow Town
1908–1909	Custom House
1909–1910	Ilford
1910–1922	Huddersfield Town
1916–1919	→ Brentford (guest)
International career
1910	England Amateurs
1920	England
	*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Frederick Edwin Bullock (1 July 1886 – 14 November 1922) was an English professional footballer, best remembered for his 11-year spell with Huddersfield Town, before, during and after the First World War.^[4] He played left back and captained the club.^[2]

International career

Bullock won one cap for England, which came in a 2–0 win over Ireland in 1920.^[2] He won an amateur cap in 1910.^[5]

Bullock was married to Maude and had one son.^[2] He served as a lance corporal in the Football Battalion during the First World War and was wounded in the right shoulder during the Battle of the Somme in 1916,^[2]^[6] in the region of Delville Wood and Guillemont.^[7] He was injured in the left knee after an accident in 1918 and was demobilised in March 1920.^[2]^[8] After his retirement from football in 1922, Bullock became landlord of the Slubber's Arms pub in Huddersfield.^[8] He died of heart failure due to ammonia poisoning in November 1922 and had been suffering "nerve troubles" during the month preceding his death.^[2]^[8]^[9]

Huddersfield Town

Brentford

Appearances and goals by club, season and competition
Club	Season	League			FA Cup		Total
Club	Season	Division	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals
Huddersfield Town	1910–11^[11]	Second Division	25	0	0	0	25	0
	1911–12^[11]		28	0	1	0	29	0
	1912–13^[11]		38	1	2	0	40	1
	1913–14^[11]		25	0	0	0	25	0
	1914–15^[11]		28	0	1	0	29	0
	1919–20^[11]		33	0	6	0	39	0
	1920–21^[11]	First Division	25	0	3	0	28	0
Career Total			202	1	13	0	215	1

^ Joyce, Michael (2012). Football League Players' Records 1888 to 1939. Nottingham: Tony Brown. p. 45. ISBN 978-1905891610.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h "England Players – Fred Bullock". www.englandfootballonline.com. Retrieved 5 November 2017.
^ Woolwinder (22 August 1921). "First Division prospects. Huddersfield Town". Athletic News. Manchester. p. 5.
^ "Bullock Fred Huddersfield Town 1922". Vintage Footballers. Retrieved 25 December 2018.
^ "England Matches – The Amateurs 1906–1939". www.englandfootballonline.com. Retrieved 28 December 2015.
^ Fred Bullock on Lives of the First World War
^ ^a ^b Robinson, Andrew (15 March 2017). "Ask Examiner: What's known about Town's Fred Bullock?". huddersfieldexaminer. Retrieved 5 November 2017.
^ ^a ^b ^c "Football Battalion and England star who could not cope". Archived from the original on 25 January 2017. Retrieved 24 November 2016.
^ "Larrett Roebuck: the first footballer in the English Football League to be killed in the Great War". Archived from the original on 12 September 2017. Retrieved 29 March 2016.
^ White, Eric, ed. (1989). 100 Years Of Brentford. Brentford FC. pp. 363–365. ISBN 0951526200.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g "Player Profile – Bullock, Fred". Huddersfield Town AFC Archive. Retrieved 2 August 2020.^{[permanent dead link]}