George_Warren_(footballer)
George Warren (footballer)
English footballer
George Warren (1880 – 16 May 1917) was an English professional footballer who played in the Football League for Leicester Fosse, Burton Swifts and Stockport County as a forward.[1][3][4] He also played in the Southern League for Coventry City and was nicknamed "Tubby".[5][6][7] He was described as "a great centre-forward" who possessed "an invaluable capacity for keeping opposing defences guessing".[4]
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | George Warren[1] | ||
| Date of birth | 1880 | ||
| Place of birth | Burton upon Trent, England | ||
| Date of death | 16 May 1917 (aged 36–37)[2] | ||
| Place of death | Loos-en-Gohelle, France[2] | ||
| Position(s) | Forward | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 1897–1898 | Rangermoor Albion | ||
| 1898–1899 | Burton Swifts | 2 | (0) |
| 1899–1900 | Sheppey United | ||
| 1900–1903 | Hinckley Town | ||
| 1903–1904 | Leicester Fosse | 21 | (7) |
| 1904–1905 | Gresley Rovers | 27 | (11) |
| 1905–1906 | Hinckley United | ||
| 1906–1907 | Nuneaton Town | (22) | |
| 1907–1911 | Coventry City | 73 | (31) |
| 1911 | Willenhall Swifts | ||
| 1911 | Stockport County | 3 | (0) |
| 1911–1912 | Dudley | ||
| 1912–1913 | Nuneaton Town | (12) | |
| Hinckley United | |||
| *Club domestic league appearances and goals | |||
As of 1901, Warren was working as a plumber in Hinckley.[8] He married in 1903 and had two children before his wife died in 1915.[8] At the outbreak of the First World War in 1914, Warren was the licensed victualler of the Three Tuns Inn, Hinckley.[8] In December 1915, 18 months after the outbreak of the war, he enlisted in the Army Reserve and remarried in 1916 and had another child.[8] In April 1917, Warren was posted to the Western Front as a private in the Army Service Corps and was killed just one month later in the Loos Salient, while serving with the York and Lancaster Regiment.[9] He was buried in Philosophe British Cemetery, Mazingarbe.[2]
| Club | Season | League | FA Cup | Total | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Division | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | ||
| Leicester Fosse | 1903–04[10] | Second Division | 21 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 21 | 7 |
| Coventry City | 1907–08[5] | Southern League First Division | 6 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 6 |
| 1908–09[5] | Southern League First Division | 31 | 15 | 2 | 1 | 33 | 16 | |
| 1909–10[5] | Southern League First Division | 17 | 9 | 5 | 2 | 22 | 11 | |
| 1910–11[5] | Southern League First Division | 25 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 25 | 7 | |
| Total | 73 | 31 | 7 | 3 | 80 | 34 | ||
| Stockport County | 1911–12[11] | Second Division | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 |
| Career total | 97 | 38 | 7 | 3 | 104 | 41 | ||
Nuneaton Town
- Atherstone Nursing Cup: 1912–13[4]
- Joyce, Michael (2012). Football League Players' Records 1888 to 1939. Nottingham: Tony Brown. p. 302. ISBN 978-1905891610.
- "Casualty Details". Commonwealth War Graves Commission. Retrieved 20 January 2016.
- "Nuneaton Town 1894-1919 Part 1" (PDF). 11 January 2024. p. 68.
- "Nuneaton Town 1894–1919 Part 2" (PDF). pp. 25–46, 174, 241. Retrieved 11 October 2016.
- "George Warren". 11v11.com. Retrieved 20 January 2016.
- "George Warren – Player Database". Gresley FC Online. Retrieved 20 January 2016.
- "Warren George "Tubby" Coventry City 1909". Vintage Footballers. Retrieved 13 September 2021.
- "George Warren. Warwickshire Footballer, WW1 Casualty". Our Warwickshire. Retrieved 12 March 2019.
- "Leicester Fosse & The First World War: George Warren". www.lcfc.com. Retrieved 18 January 2023.
- "George Warren | Leicester City career stats". FoxesHistory. Retrieved 13 June 2017.
- Watts, Ian. "George Warren County Record". gogogocounty.org. Retrieved 13 June 2017.
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