Английская Википедия:Allen Foster
Шаблон:Short description Шаблон:For Шаблон:Use dmy dates Шаблон:Infobox football biography Allen Foster (c. 1887 – 8 August 1916) was an English professional footballer who made over 140 appearances in the Southern League for Reading. An inside left, he also played in the Football League for Bristol City.
Career
Foster was born in Rawmarsh, Yorkshire and began his career in non-League football with Parkgate Athletic and Rotherham Town.[1] He moved to First Division club Bristol City in 1909, but made just 13 appearances, scoring one goal.[1] Foster's prolific scoring for the Bristol City reserve team in the Great Western Suburban League prompted newly promoted Southern League First Division club Reading to sign him for a £75 fee in August 1911.Шаблон:Sfn A successful player with Reading, he was remembered for his hat-trick scored against Italian giants AC Milan in the Biscuitmen's 5–0 victory on 13 May 1914.[2] The result prompted the leading Italian newspaper Corriere della Sera to report that "without doubt, Reading FC are the finest foreign team seen in Italy".[3] Foster finished his professional career with Reading with 73 goals.[4]
Personal life
Foster was married and while a footballer with Parkgate Athletic,[3] he worked in the fitter's room at a colliery.Шаблон:Sfn In 1914, during the early months of the First World War, Foster enlisted as a private in the Football Battalion of the Middlesex Regiment.[5] On 8 August 1916, he went over the top with the battalion at Guillemont, during the Battle of Delville Wood and was shot in the thigh, abdomen and arm.[6] Foster was recovered by four stretcher-bearers from no man's land and was transported to a hospital in Corbie, where he died of his wounds.[6] He was buried in Corbie Communal Cemetery Extension.[7]
Honours
References
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- Military personnel from South Yorkshire
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