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Percy Humphreys

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Percy Humphreys
Personal information
Date of birth (1880-12-03)3 December 1880
Place of birth Cambridge, England
Date of death 13 April 1959(1959-04-13) (aged 78)
Place of death London, England
Position(s) Inside right
Youth career
Cambridge St Mary's
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1900–1901 Queens Park Rangers ? (?)
1901–1907 Notts County 189 (66)
1907 Leicester Fosse 26 (19)
1907–1909 Chelsea 45 (13)
1909–1911 Tottenham Hotspur 45 (24)
1911–1912 Leicester Fosse 14 (2)
1912–1913 Hartlepools United 28 (11)
International career
1903 England 1 (0)
Managerial career
1912–1913 Hartlepools United
1913–1914 FC Basel
1920–1922 Alessandria
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Percy Humphreys (3 December 1880 – 13 April 1959)[1] was an English international footballer, who played at inside-right, who later became a football manager.

Career

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Club career

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Humphrey's first Football League club was Notts County where he made 189 league appearances and scored 66 times.[2] In the 1907–08 season, Humphreys joined Second Division Leicester Fosse but returned to the First Division with Chelsea for the latter part of the season. He remained with Chelsea until December 1909 when he lost his place to Vivian Woodward.[1]

Humphreys swapped places with Woodward moving across London to join Tottenham Hotspur. Humphreys only made 45 league appearances for Spurs, scoring 24 goals, none of which were as vital as the one that he scored against Chelsea in the final match of the 1909–10 season which ensured that Chelsea were relegated instead of Spurs.[1]

In October 1911, he was transferred back to Leicester Fosse where he spent the rest of the season. He then dropped out of the league to join Hartlepools United on a one-year contract ahead of the 1912–13 season.[3][2] Humphreys suffered from recurring knee injuries but still managed 15 goals in 32 appearances.[2]

International career

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Humphreys made one appearance for England, on 4 April 1903, in a 2–1 defeat to Scotland at Bramall Lane.[4]

Coaching career

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Humphreys became player-manager of North Eastern League side Hartlepools United on 1 August 1912.[2][5] Hartlepools finished in 12th place in his first season in charge.[2] At the end of the season, Humphreys was offered a new one-year contract but could not agree financial terms and subsequently departed the club on 31 May 1913.[2]

Humphreys then coached Swiss side FC Basel between 1913 and 1914.[6] He had initially signed a three-year contract with the club but had to return to the UK after the outbreak of World War I.[2] Humphreys signed briefly for Southern Football League club Norwich City.[2]

He managed Alessandria, in Italy, from 1920 and 1922.[7]

Post-football

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He later worked in the motor industry.[2] Humphreys died in London in April 1959 at the age of 78 having suffered injuries during a fall.[2]

References

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  1. ^ a b c Betts, Graham (2006). England: Player by player. Green Umbrella Publishing. p. 136. ISBN 1-905009-63-1.
  2. ^ a b c d e f g h i j Errington, Malcolm (2012). Hartlepool United The Complete Record. Derby: The Derby Books Publishing Company Limited. p. 251. ISBN 978-1-78091-030-7.
  3. ^ In The Mad Crowd
  4. ^ "England 1 Scotland 2 (Match summary)". englandstats.com. 4 April 1903. Retrieved 28 March 2009.
  5. ^ "Percy Humphreys". League Managers Association. Retrieved 5 December 2017.
  6. ^ "Ehemalige Trainer des FCB" (in German). FC Basel. Retrieved 5 December 2017.
  7. ^ Caligaris, Mimma. 100 volte Grigi, supplement to the newspaper «Il Piccolo», 17 February 2012, 20, p. 51.
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