fullname years clubs caps goals birth_place position birth_date article_title name
arthur edwin gardner -- 19xx 1898 -- 1899 1899 -- 1901 1901 -- smethwick hall small heath oldbury town oldbury broadwell 16 9 west smethwick , england inside forward january 1878 arthur gardner -lrb- footballer -rrb-
 arthur gardner
arthur gardner -lrb- footballer -rrb-

arthur edwin gardner -lrb- january 1878 -- after 1900 -rrb- was an english professional footballer who played in the second division of the football league for small heath .
he played as an inside forward .
gardner was born in west smethwick , staffordshire , and played football for smethwick hall before joining small heath in 1898 .
he scored twice on his debut in a 9 -- 0 defeat of luton town on 12 november 1898 , and scored a further seven times in the club 's next 17 games , but lost his place on the arrival of walter wigmore , and returned to non-league football with oldbury town and later with oldbury broadwell .
