George Clawley
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Date of birth | 10 April 1875 | ||
| Place of birth | Scholar Green, England | ||
| Date of death | 16 July 1920 (aged 45) | ||
| Place of death | Southampton, England | ||
| Height | 6 ft 2 in (1.88 m) | ||
| Playing position | Goalkeeper | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 1893–1894 | Crewe Alexandra | 3 | (0) |
| 1894–1896 | Stoke | 49 | (0) |
| 1896–1898 | Southampton | 42 | (0) |
| 1898–1899 | Stoke | 34 | (0) |
| 1899–1903 | Tottenham Hotspur | 82 | (0) |
| 1903–1907 | Southampton | 121 | (0) |
| Total | 331 | (0) | |
| * Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. |
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George Clawley (10 April 1875 – 16 July 1920) was an English professional goalkeeper who played for Stoke, Southampton and Tottenham Hotspur in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. He was the goalkeeper for the Spurs side that won the 1901 FA Cup Final.
Born at Scholar Green, near Congleton, he started his professional career with Crewe Alexandra in August 1893. He made three appearances for Crewe in the Football League Second Division in 1893–94 before being recruited by their First Division neighbours Stoke in September 1894.
He soon displaced Bill Rowley in goal as Stoke struggled throughout the 1894–95 season finishing third from bottom and only avoiding relegation via the end of season test match. The following season Stoke were more successful finishing in sixth place. They also enjoyed an exciting FA Cup run to the quarter-finals where they were defeated 3–0 by Wolverhampton Wanderers.
In the summer of 1896 he was persuaded to move south to join Southampton who were about to embark on their third season in the Southern League. In his first two-year spell with The Saints he was ever-present, captaining the south coast club to the Southern League title in both 1896–97 and 1897–98. According to Holley & Chalk's "The Alphabet of the Saints" Clawley was "one of the finest uncapped goalkeepers ever to grace the football field of England". He "possessed the physical requirements of height and reach that were to make him one of the greats around the turn of the century".
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