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Welsh footballer

Evan Edwards
Personal information
Full name Evan Jenkin Edwards
Date of birth (1898-12-14)14 December 1898
Place of birth Bedlinog, Wales
Date of death 1958 (aged 59–60)
Height 5 ft 8 in (1.73 m)
Position(s) Outside left
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
19??–1923 Merthyr Town 80 (10)
1923–1925 Wolverhampton Wanderers 63 (12)
1925 Mid-Rhondda United
1925–1926 Swansea Town 11 (1)
1926–1927 Northampton Town 11 (2)
1927–192? Halifax Town 0 (0)
– Ebbw Vale
1928–1929 Darlington 25 (3)
1929–1930 Clapton Orient 4 (0)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Evan Jenkin Edwards (14 December 1898 – 1958) was a Welsh footballer who scored 28 goals from 194 appearances in the Football League playing at outside left for Merthyr Town, Wolverhampton Wanderers, Swansea Town, Northampton Town, Darlington and Clapton Orient in the 1920s. He was on the books of Halifax Town without representing them in the League, and also played for Southern League clubs Mid-Rhondda United and Ebbw Vale.

Edwards played for Wales in an amateur international match against England Amateurs in 1920. According to the Daily Express report, "E.J. Edwards, the Merthyr outside left, was the star artist of the Welsh attack, and his elusive runs and centres were a feature of the first half, but following change of ends he was kept well under control"; his team lost 9–0.

Notes

  1. Merthyr Town figures are for appearances in the Football League only, not those in the 1919–20 Southern Football League season.

References

  1. ^ Joyce, Michael (2004). Football League Players' Records 1888 to 1939. Nottingham: SoccerData. p. 82. ISBN 978-1-899468-67-6.
  2. "Optimists of the North. Wolverhampton Wanderers". Athletic News. Manchester. 6 August 1923. p. 6.
  3. Beta (26 January 1920). "'Don eint heey eat Merthyr!' Welsh comment on a 9–0 Amateur defeat". Daily Express. London. p. 9.


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