Eddie Mosscrop

Eddie Mosscrop
Personal information
Date of birth (1892-06-16)16 June 1892
Place of birth Southport, England
Date of death 14 March 1980(1980-03-14) (aged 87)
Playing position Outside left
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1912–1922 Burnley 176 (19)
National team
1914 England 2 (0)

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

† Appearances (goals)

Edwin "Eddie" Mosscrop (16 June 1892 – 14 March 1980) was an English professional footballer who played as a winger. He won two caps for the England national football team in 1914 and was part of the Burnley side which won the FA Cup in 1914. He served with the British Army in Salonika during the First World War, before returning to Burnley in 1919. He was forced to retire from professional football in November 1922 due to a serious illness and subsequently returned to his hometown of Southport to work as a schoolteacher.

He was the last surviving pre-World War I England international, dying some 65 years after senior football was suspended following the outbreak of World War I, although he was outlived by a number of pre-World War I players to have seen Football League action; including some who survived in the 1990s.

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