Angus Seed

Angus Seed
Personal information
Full name Angus Cameron Seed[1]
Date of birth 6 February 1893
Place of birth Lanchester, England
Date of death 7 February 1953(1953-02-07) (aged 60)[2]
Place of death Barnsley, England[2]
Playing position Right back
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
Whitburn
South Shields
Seaham Harbour
1913 Everton 0 (0)
1914 Leicester Fosse 3 (0)
Reading
St Bernard's
Mid Rhondda
Ebbw Vale
Broxburn United
Workington
Teams managed
1927–1937 Aldershot
1937–1953 Barnsley

* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only.

† Appearances (goals)

Angus Seed MM (6 February 1893–7 February 1953) was an English professional football right back, best remembered for his 16 years as manager of Barnsley in the Football League.[3] He had a long playing career in non-league football and after retiring,[1] was Aldershot's first-ever manager and worked as a scout for Charlton Athletic.[4][5]

Personal life

Seed's younger brother Jimmy was also a footballer.[6] Seed fought with the 17th (Service) Battalion of the Duke of Cambridge's Own (Middlesex Regiment) during the First World War.[6] On the night of 1-2 June 1916, he won the Military Medal for his actions as a stretcher bearer on Vimy Ridge,[7] dragging wounded men back to the British dugouts under heavy fire.[6] Later in June 1916, Seed received a shrapnel wound in the right hip,[8] which eventually caused him to retire from football.[2] He died of chronic bronchitis at Kendray Hospital in Barnsley on 7 February 1953.[2]

Honours

Aldershot

Barnsley

References

  1. 1 2 Joyce, Michael (2012). Football League Players' Records 1888 to 1939. Nottingham: Tony Brown. p. 259. ISBN 190589161X.
  2. 1 2 3 4 "Comment: No real excuses for Barnsley’s dismal run, unlike in 1953 - Barnsley Sport from the Barnsley Chronicle". Barnsley Chronicle. Retrieved 2015-12-25.
  3. 1 2 "League Managers Association - ANGUS SEED". www.leaguemanagers.com. Retrieved 2015-12-16.
  4. 1 2 "The Manager Issue 22". www.themanager-magazine.com. p. 18. Retrieved 2015-12-25.
  5. "Sam Bartram: Eternal showman". ESPNFC.com. Retrieved 2015-12-16.
  6. 1 2 3 "Leicester Fosse and the First World War: Part 10". www.lcfc.com. Retrieved 2015-12-16.
  7. Riddoch, Andrew; Kemp, David (2010). When the Whistle Blows: The Story of the Footballers' Battalion in the Great War. Sparkford, Yeovil, Somerset: Haynes Publishing. p. 163. ISBN 978-0857330772.
  8. Riddoch & Kemp 2010, p. 106.
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