Norman Creek (footballer)

Norman Creek

Personal information
Full name	Frederick Norman Smith Creek
Date of birth	(1898-01-12)12 January 1898
Place of birth	Darlington, England
Date of death	26 June 1980(1980-06-26) (aged 82)
Place of death	England
Playing position	Centre Forward
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
1919–1922	Corinthian	0	(0)
1922–1924	Darlington	2	(0)
National team
1923	England	1	(0)
	England amateur	5	(4)
Teams managed
1952–1968	British Olympic football team
Military career Allegiance United Kingdom Service/branch British Army Royal Air Force Years of service 1914–1919 1941–1945 Rank Flight Lieutenant Battles/wars World War I  • Western Front World War II Awards Military Cross Order of the British Empire
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only.

Frederick Norman Smith Creek MBE, MC (12 January 1898 – 26 July 1980) was an English amateur footballer who was associated with the Corinthians amateur team for many years. He made one appearance as a centre forward for the full England team and five for the England amateur team.

Creek was born in Darlington, County Durham, and first played representative football for Darlington Grammar School.

During the First World War he served as a second lieutenant in a Territorial Force battalion of the Durham Light Infantry, until being seconded to the Royal Flying Corps on 8 December 1917 to serve as a flying officer (observer). He was subsequently awarded the Military Cross, which was gazetted on 10 May 1918. His citation read:

On 1 August 1919 Creek was awarded a permanent commission in the Royal Air Force with the rank of lieutenant. However, he was transferred to the unemployed list on 12 September 1919, and his permanent commission cancelled on the 16th.

He then went up to Cambridge University where he won his first "Blue" in 1920. Injury prevented him playing in 1921, but he earned his second blue the following year.

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