George Warren

English footballer
The basics

Quick Facts

IntroEnglish footballer
PlacesUnited Kingdom Great Britain England
wasAthlete Football player Association football player
Work fieldSports
Gender
Male
Birth1880, Burton upon Trent, East Staffordshire, Staffordshire, United Kingdom
Death16 May 1917Nord, Hauts-de-France, Metropolitan France, France (aged 37 years)
Sports Teams
Burton Swifts F.C.
Sheppey United F.C.
Hinckley Town F.C.
Leicester City F.C.
Gresley F.C.
Hinckley United F.C.
Nuneaton Borough F.C.
Coventry City F.C.
Willenhall F.C.
Stockport County F.C.
Dudley Town F.C.
The details

Biography

George Warren (1880 – 16 May 1917) was an English professional football forward who played in the Football League for Leicester Fosse, Burton Swifts and Stockport County. He also played in the Southern League for Coventry City.

Personal life

As of 1901, Warren was working as a plumber in Hinckley. He married in 1903 and had two children before his wife died in 1915. At the outbreak of the First World War in 1914, Warren was the licensed victualler of the Three Tuns Inn, Hinckley. 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. In April 1917, Warren was posted to the Western Front as a private in the Army Service Corps and was killed just three months later in the Loos Salient, while serving with the York and Lancaster Regiment. He was buried in Philosophe British Cemetery, Mazingarbe.

Honours

Nuneaton Town

  • Atherstone Nursing Cup: 1912–13

Career statistics

ClubSeasonLeagueFA CupTotal
DivisionAppsGoalsAppsGoalsAppsGoals
Leicester Fosse1903–04Second Division21700217
Coventry City1907–08Southern League First Division660066
1908–093115213316
1909–10179522211
1910–1125700257
Total7331738034
Stockport County1911–12Second Division300030
Career total97387310441
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