Redfern Froggatt
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| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Date of birth | 23 August 1924 | ||
| Place of birth | Sheffield, England | ||
| Date of death | 26 December 2003 (aged 79) | ||
| Place of death | Sheffield, England | ||
| Height | 5 ft 10+1⁄2 in (1.79 m)[1] | ||
| Position | Forward | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 1945–1960 | Sheffield Wednesday[2] | 434 | (140) |
| International career | |||
| 1950 | England B | 1 | (1) |
| 1952–1953 | England | 4 | (2) |
| * Club domestic league appearances and goals | |||
Redfern Froggatt (23 August 1924 – 26 December 2003) was an English footballer for Sheffield Wednesday and England. In total he received four England caps scoring 2 goals.
Club career
[edit]In 1942 'Red' was signed from Sheffield YMCA but did not become a regular player in the Sheffield Wednesday side until 1945. Over the course of the next 15 years he would go on to make a total of 498 appearances for the club, mostly as a striker but playing over 50 games as a winger, scoring 149 goals. On New Year's Eve 1953, Froggatt submitted a transfer request, and an offer from Steel City derby rivals Sheffield United was rejected in February 1954.[3]
His final game for Wednesday came in the 1959–60 season. On 22 January 1960, Froggatt turned down a move to fellow South Yorkshire club Doncaster Rovers, before signing for Stalybridge Celtic in 1962.[3]
International career
[edit]Froggatt received his first representative honours when he played for England B against Switzerland B at his club's ground of Hillsborough, on 18 January 1950.[3]
Froggatt featured on the 28-man longlist for the 1950 FIFA World Cup, however was excluded from the final squad.[4] He made his England debut in a British Home Championship match against Wales on 12 November 1952, before scoring his first England goal in the following international fixture a fortnight later, against Belgium.[3] Froggatt faced Scotland in his third consecutive England international.[3] His fourth and last England cap was his first away from Wembley Stadium, and came on 8 June 1953 against the United States at Yankee Stadium in New York, in which he scored one of the Three Lions' six.[3]
Personal life
[edit]Redfern was the son of former Wednesday captain and Notts County centre-half Frank Froggatt, and the cousin of England international Jack Froggatt.[3]
References
[edit]- ↑ "Read a poignant piece of United history". Manchester United F.C. 18 February 2023. Retrieved 21 February 2025.
- ↑ "Redfern Froggatt". Archived from the original on 3 March 2016.
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 "England Players - Redfern Froggatt". englandfootballonline.com. Retrieved 17 May 2018.
- ↑ Parkinson, Gary (16 May 2018). "England's World Cup rejects: a brief history of woe and where-are-they-nows". fourfourtwo.com. FourFourTwo. Retrieved 17 May 2018.
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