William Cope (footballer)
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | William Arthur Cope | ||
| Date of birth | 25 November 1884 | ||
| Place of birth | Stoke-upon-Trent, England | ||
| Date of death | 18 February 1937 (aged 52) | ||
| Place of death | Hartshill, Stoke-on-Trent, England | ||
| Playing position | Full-back | ||
| Youth career | |||
| Mount Pleasant | |||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 1904–1907 | Burslem Port Vale | 73 | (1) |
| 1907–1908 | Stoke | 25 | (0) |
| 1908–1914 | Oldham Athletic | 62 | (1) |
| 1914–1922 | West Ham United | 137 | (0) |
| 1922–1923 | Wrexham | 13 | (0) |
| Total | 310 | (2) | |
| * Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. |
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William Arthur Cope (25 November 1884 – 18 February 1937) was an English footballer who played as a full-back. He played 287 league games in the Football League over a nineteen-year professional career.
He joined Burslem Port Vale in August 1904, and spent three seasons with the club, moving on to Stoke after Port Vale resigned from the Football League. Stoke also resigned from the league in 1908, and he moved on to Oldham Athletic. He spent six years with the club, helping the club win promotion out of the Second Division in 1909–10, and to compete for the First Division title. He switched to West Ham United in 1914, and spent eight years with the club, helping the club to the wartime London Combination title in 1916–17. During this time West Ham moved from the Southern League to the Football League. He served the club as captain in 1921–22. He ended his career at Wrexham at the end of the 1922–23 campaign.
Cope joined Second Division Burslem Port Vale from Mount Pleasant in August 1904. He played 25 games in 1904–05, scoring once in a 3–3 with Lincoln City at Sincil Bank. The "Valeites" fared poorly, and finished third from bottom in the Football League, ahead of only Burton United and Doncaster Rovers. Cope was a key part of the club's 1905–06 campaign, playing 38 games alongside defensive partner James Hamilton. He played seventeen games in 1906–07, but left the Athletic Ground after the club resigned from the league. In his three seasons at the club he made 80 appearances (73 in the league) and scored one league goal.
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