Fred Bullock

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
Playing position Left back
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
Hounslow Town
Custom House
1909 Ilford
1910–1922 Huddersfield Town 202 (1)
1916–1919 → Brentford (guest) 29 (0)
National team
1910 England Amateurs 1 (0)
1920 England 1 (0)
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only

Frederick Edwin Bullock (1 July 1886 – 14 November 1922) was an English professional football left back, best remembered for his 11-year spell with Huddersfield Town, before, during and after the First World War.[3] He captained the club.[2]

International career

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.[4]

Personal life

Bullock was married to Maude and had one son.[2] He served as a 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] in the region of Delville Wood and Guillemont.[5] He was injured in the left knee after an accident in 1918 and was demobilised in March 1920.[2][6] After his retirement from football in 1922, Bullock became landlord of the Slubber's Arms pub in Huddersfield.[6] He died of heart failure due to ammonia poisoning in November 1922 and been suffering "nerve troubles" during the month preceding his death.[2][6][7]

Honours

Huddersfield Town

Brentford

Career statistics

Club Season League League FA Cup Total
Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals
Huddersfield Town 1914–15[8] Second Division 28 0 1 0 29 0
Career Total 28 0 1 0 29 0

References

  1. ↑ Joyce, Michael (2012). Football League Players' Records 1888 to 1939. Nottingham: Tony Brown. p. 45. ISBN 190589161X.
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 "England Players – Fred Bullock". www.englandfootballonline.com. Retrieved 5 November 2017.
  3. 1 2 White, Eric, ed. (1989). 100 Years Of Brentford. Brentford FC. pp. 363–365. ISBN 0951526200.
  4. ↑ "England Matches – The Amateurs 1906–1939". www.englandfootballonline.com. Retrieved 28 December 2015.
  5. 1 2 Robinson, Andrew (15 March 2017). "Ask Examiner: What's known about Town's Fred Bullock?". huddersfieldexaminer. Retrieved 5 November 2017.
  6. 1 2 3 "Football Battalion and England star who could not cope". Archived from the original on 25 January 2017. Retrieved 24 November 2016.
  7. ↑ Editor. "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.
  8. ↑ "Huddersfield Town Squad 1914/15". Football and the First World War. Retrieved 1 June 2017.


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