Fred Lessons
Appearance
Personal information | |||
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Full name | George Frederick Lessons[1] | ||
Date of birth | 30 August 1883 | ||
Place of birth | Heaton Norris, England[2] | ||
Date of death | 7 September 1918[3] | (aged 35)||
Place of death | Pas-de-Calais, France[3] | ||
Position(s) | Centre forward | ||
Youth career | |||
Lawrence | |||
Senior career* | |||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
1903–1904 | Nottingham Jardines Athletic | ||
1904–1907 | Nottingham Forest | 31 | (8) |
1907–1915 | Northampton Town | 234 | (75) |
Total | 265 | (83) | |
Managerial career | |||
1913–1918 | Northampton Town | ||
*Club domestic league appearances and goals |
George Frederick Lessons (30 August 1883 – 7 September 1918), sometimes known as Frank Lessons, was an English professional footballer who made nearly 250 appearances as a centre forward in the Southern League for Northampton Town.[4][5] He also managed the club and earlier in his career played in the Football League for Nottingham Forest.[1][6]
Personal life
[edit]Lessons served as a lance corporal in the Northamptonshire Regiment during the First World War and was killed on the Western Front on 7 September 1918, just over two months before the armistice.[3] He is buried in Éterpigny British Cemetery.[3]
Career statistics
[edit]Club | Season | League | FA Cup | Total | ||||
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Division | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | ||
Nottingham Forest | 1904–05[7] | First Division | 16 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 16 | 3 |
1905–06[7] | 14 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 14 | 5 | ||
1906–07[7] | Second Division | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 0 | |
Career total | 31 | 8 | 2 | 0 | 33 | 8 |
Honours
[edit]Northampton Town
- Southern League First Division: 1908–09[8]
References
[edit]- ^ Jump up to: a b Joyce, Michael (2012). Football League Players' Records 1888 to 1939. Nottingham: Tony Brown. p. 173. ISBN 978-1905891610.
- ^ Fred Lessons on Lives of the First World War
- ^ Jump up to: a b c d "Casualty Details". Commonwealth War Graves Commission. Retrieved 13 January 2016.
- ^ "Club records". www.ntfc.co.uk. Retrieved 13 January 2016.
- ^ "Fred Lessons – Northampton Town". Cobblers Past. 5 June 2020. Retrieved 22 September 2021.
- ^ "Fred Lessons". League Managers Association. Retrieved 13 January 2016.
- ^ Jump up to: a b c "Frank Lessons". The City Ground. Retrieved 14 July 2019.
- ^ "Lessons Fred Northampton Town 1908". Vintage Footballers. Retrieved 14 January 2019.
Categories:
- 1883 births
- 1918 deaths
- Footballers from Stockport
- English men's footballers
- Men's association football forwards
- Jardine's Athletic F.C. players
- Nottingham Forest F.C. players
- Northampton Town F.C. players
- English Football League players
- Southern Football League players
- English football managers
- Military personnel from Manchester
- Northampton Town F.C. managers
- Southern Football League managers
- British Army personnel of World War I
- Northamptonshire Regiment soldiers
- British military personnel killed in World War I
- Burials in Hauts-de-France
- English football forward, 1880s birth stubs