Sam Chedgzoy
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Samuel Chedgzoy | ||
| Date of birth | 27 January 1889 | ||
| Place of birth | Ellesmere Port, England | ||
| Date of death | 7 January 1967 (aged 77) | ||
| Place of death | Montreal, Quebec, Canada | ||
| Playing position | Wing Forward | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 1910–1926 | Everton | 279 | (33) |
| 1926–1930 | New Bedford Whalers | 164 | (21) |
| 1930–1939 | Montreal Carsteel | ||
| National team | |||
| 1920–1924 | England | 8 | (0) |
| Teams managed | |||
| 1924 | Grenadier Guards | ||
| 1930–1940 | Montreal Carsteel | ||
| * Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. |
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Sam Chedgzoy (1889–1967) was an English football player who changed the laws of the game. He played professionally for Everton F.C., the New Bedford Whalers and Montreal Carsteel. He also earned eight caps with the English national team.
Born 27 January 1889 in Ellesmere Port, England, Chedgzoy began his professional career with Everton F.C. in 1910, joining the club from amateur side Burnell’s Ironworks. He spent sixteen season with the Blues, predominantly was a right wing forward. Everton were runners up in the then top division, Division 1, in the 1911–12 season; and won the championship 1914–15. In total, Chedgzoy made 300 appearances (279 in the league) for Everton. He scored thirty-six goals, with thirty-three coming in league games.
In 1926, Chedgzoy emigrated to the United States where he signed with New Bedford Whalers of the American Soccer League.
Chedgzoy gained his first taste of Canada while vacationing there in 1922. In 1924, he spent the English League off season as manager of the Grenadier Guards, a Canadian armed forces team which competed in the Interprovincial League. When he left the Whalers in 1930, Len Peto, owner of Montreal Carsteel hired Chedgzoy as the team's player-coach. Carsteel played in the Canadian National Soccer League. In his ten years with the club, he took them to seven league finals, losing the first four before winning the 1936, 1939 and 1940 titles. He made his final appearance as a player for Carsteel in the Canadian Club Final in 1939 at the age of fifty. He remained in Montreal until his death on 7 January 1967.
Chedgzoy was inducted into the Canadian Soccer Hall of Fame in 2005.
Chedgzoy earned his first cap with England in a 2–1 loss to Wales on 15 March 1920. He went on play a total of eight games with England, his last a 3–1 victory over Northern Ireland on 22 October 1924.
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