Edwin Buttery
b. 1857-d. 1923
(Aged 66)
“ …quick as a flippin’ whippet…”
Clubs…
Norton
The Wednesday
Sheffield Heely
The Zulus
Early, fleet-footed Wednesday starlet Edwin is called up as a reserve for the England National team for the twin disasters in the Home Internationals of 1882…
Scotland 5-1 England
11th of March…
Wales 5-3 England
13th of March…
Young ‘Teddy’ had actually found him-self chosen to start the opening game against Scotland but…
“…magnanimously stood aside to allow…
Doctor* Greenwood
…to play thus displaying a self-abnegation rarely to be found…”
*…Blackburn Rover’s Half-Back Doctor Haydock Greenwood isn’t really a Doctor at all !
Doctor was his actual first-name…
