| Geordie Anderson | ||
| Personal information | ||
|---|---|---|
| Full name | George Anderson | |
| Date of birth | Unknown | |
| Place of birth | Scotland | |
| Date of death | Unknown | |
| Playing position | Centre Half/Forward | |
| Senior clubs1 | ||
| Years | Club | App (Gls)* |
| 18??-1892 1892-1896 1896-1897 1897 1897-1898 1898-1900 1900-1903 |
Leith Athletic Blackburn Rovers New Brighton Tower → Blackburn Rovers (loan) New Brighton Tower Blackburn Rovers Blackpool |
? (?) 131 (11) ? (?) 2 (0) 8 (0) 45 (8) 78 (29) |
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1 Senior club appearances and goals |
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George "Geordie" Anderson was a Scottish professional footballer. Scotland ( Gaelic: Alba) is a Country in northwest Europethat occupies the northern third of the island of Great Britain. Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a Team sport played between two teams of eleven players and is widely considered He played as a defender and, later, a forward. In Association football (soccer a defender is a player who tries to prevent the other team from scoring Strikers, also known as forwards and attackers, are the players on a team in Association football (soccer in the row nearest to the opposing
Geordie Anderson was born in Scotland and played centre half for Leith Athletic in the Scottish League before Tom Mitchell persuaded Anderson to join Blackburn Rovers in 1892. In Association football (soccer a defender is a player who tries to prevent the other team from scoring Leith Athletic Football Club are a football club from the Leith area of Edinburgh, Scotland. Thomas Brown Mitchell ( c 1843 – August 1921 was a Scottish football manager Blackburn Rovers Football Club is an English Premier League football club based in the town of Blackburn, Lancashire. At the end of the season Blackburn Rovers finished in 9th place in the league. In order to strengthen the side, Blackburn recruited several further Scottish players including goalkeeper Adam Ogilvie and, as a result, Blackburn's defence was now completely made up of Scotsmen. However, the club did have three talented Englishmen in the forward line: Henry Chippendale, Jimmy Whitehead (both future England internationals) and Jamie Haydock. The English national football team represents England in international football and is controlled by The Football Association, the governing body for football The strengthened defence enabled Blackburn to finish in fourth place in the First Division.
Anderson left Blackburn Rovers for the first time in 1896; during his initial spell at the club he scored 11 goals in 131 league games. He then spent a few seasons moving backwards and forwards between New Brighton Tower and Blackburn. New Brighton Tower FC were an English football club based in New Brighton, in Wallasey, that folded in 1901. New Brighton Tower had joined the Lancashire League at the start of the 1897-98 season. The Lancashire League has been the name of two separate football competitions for clubs based in northern England. After finishing as champions in their first season, the club were elected to the Second Division of The Football League when the League was expanded by four clubs. From 1892 until 1992 the Football League Second Division was the second highest division overall in English football. The Football League, also known as the Coca-Cola Football League for sponsorship reasons is a league competition featuring professional football clubs Anderson returned permanently to Blackburn midway through the 1898-99 season.
In 1900 Anderson joined Blackpool. Blackpool Football Club are an English football club founded in 1887 and located in the Lancashire seaside town of Blackpool. He was moved from centre-half to inside forward and scored 29 goals in 78 games before retiring from the game in 1903.
References
- George Anderson at Spartacus Educational
- Calley, Roy (1992). Blackpool: A Complete Record 1887-1992. Breedon Books Sport. ISBN 1-873626-07-X.
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