death_date nationalcaps birth_date years death_place caps goals nationalyears image name caption fullname birth_place nationalteam height totalcaps totalgoals nationalgoals clubs position article_title
1 february 1941 1 7 december 1877 1899 -- 1908 1908 -- 1910 1910 -- 1911 birmingham , england 77 257 57 1 57 32 15 0 1902 walter abbott.jpg walter abbott abbott pictured in 1907 walter abbott birmingham , england england 5 9 +1 / 2 392 104 0 everton burnley birmingham inside left / left half walter abbott

walter abbott

walter abbott -lrb- 7 december 1877 -- 1 february 1941 -rrb- was an english professional footballer who scored 104 goals from 392 games in the football league playing for small heath -lrb- birmingham -rrb- , everton and burnley .
he was capped once for the england national team .
abbott was born in small heath , birmingham , and began his football career with his local club .
for small heath he played as an inside left and scored 66 goals in 85 appearances in all competitions for the club .
in the 1898 -- 99 season he scored a club record 42 goals , of which 34 came in the same number of league games .
at everton he was turned into a wing half .
while at everton he won his only cap for england , on 3 march 1902 in a goalless draw against wales at the racecourse ground , wrexham .
he also played four times for a football league xi .
abbott died in birmingham in 1941 at the age of 63 .
abbott joined football league second division side burnley from everton in may 1908 and made his debut for the club on 1 september 1908 , playing at left-half in the 0 -- 1 defeat to chesterfield at turf moor .
he kept his place in the team for the first 13 games of the season , before being dropped in favour of tommy mayson .
abbott was selected at inside-left for the first game of 1909 away at glossop , and scored the winning goal in a 2 -- 1 victory .
he remained first-choice in the position for the rest of the campaign , missing only 2 of the last 18 matches .
he scored twice during the 9 -- 0 win against crystal palace in the second round of the fa cup , and netted the only goal of the game as burnley won away at clapton orient on 27 march 1909 .
abbott scored five goals in the opening seven matches of the 1909 -- 10 season , and netted his first burnley hat-trick in the 4 -- 2 defeat of wolverhampton wanderers on 13 november 1909 .
he scored his ninth and final goal of the campaign as burnley beat leicester fosse on 11 december 1909 .
abbott made his last appearance for the clarets in the 1 -- 1 draw with leicester fosse on 23 april 1910 , having played a total of 65 league and cup matches during his two years at turf moor .
