Fred Bullock (footballer)

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Fred Bullock
Bullock while with Huddersfield Town in 1920.
Personal information
Full name Frederick Edwin Bullock[1]
Date of birth (1886-07-01)1 July 1886
Place of birth Whitton, England[2]
Date of death 14 November 1922(1922-11-14) (aged 36)[2]
Place of death Huddersfield, England
Height 5 ft 7+1⁄2 in (1.71 m)[3]
Position(s) Left back
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1904–1908 Hounslow Town
1908–1909 Custom House
1909–1910 Ilford
1910–1922 Huddersfield Town 202 (1)
1916–1919 → Brentford (guest) 29 (0)
International career
1910 England Amateurs 1 (0)
1920 England 1 (0)
*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[edit]

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]

Personal life[edit]

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]

Honours[edit]

Huddersfield Town

Brentford

Career statistics[edit]

Appearances and goals by club, season and competition
Club Season League FA Cup Total
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

References[edit]

  1. ^ Joyce, Michael (2012). Football League Players' Records 1888 to 1939. Nottingham: Tony Brown. p. 45. ISBN 978-1905891610.
  2. ^ a b c d e f g h "England Players – Fred Bullock". www.englandfootballonline.com. Retrieved 5 November 2017.
  3. ^ Woolwinder (22 August 1921). "First Division prospects. Huddersfield Town". Athletic News. Manchester. p. 5.
  4. ^ "Bullock Fred Huddersfield Town 1922". Vintage Footballers. Retrieved 25 December 2018.
  5. ^ "England Matches – The Amateurs 1906–1939". www.englandfootballonline.com. Retrieved 28 December 2015.
  6. ^ Fred Bullock on Lives of the First World War
  7. ^ a b Robinson, Andrew (15 March 2017). "Ask Examiner: What's known about Town's Fred Bullock?". huddersfieldexaminer. Retrieved 5 November 2017.
  8. ^ a b c "Football Battalion and England star who could not cope". Archived from the original on 25 January 2017. Retrieved 24 November 2016.
  9. ^ "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.
  10. ^ White, Eric, ed. (1989). 100 Years Of Brentford. Brentford FC. pp. 363–365. ISBN 0951526200.
  11. ^ a b c d e f g "Player Profile – Bullock, Fred". Huddersfield Town AFC Archive. Retrieved 2 August 2020.[permanent dead link]
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