fullname years death_date death_place clubs birth_place caps goals nationalteam position nationalcaps nationalyears birth_date article_title name nationalgoals
george richard hilsdon 1906 -- 1912 1912 -- 1915 10 september 1941 leicester , england chelsea west ham united bromley-by-bow , england 16 150 69 7 99 24 england striker 8 1907 -- 1909 10 august 1885 george hilsdon
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george hilsdon

george richard hilsdon -lrb- 10 august 1885 -- 10 september 1941 -rrb- was a footballer who began his career at west ham united , making his debut in the 1903 -- 04 season .
his brother jack hilsdon also played for west ham at this time .
hilsdon transferred to chelsea in 1906 , and was the first player to score 100 goals for the west london club , reaching a then-record 108 goals from 134 games by the time of his return to west ham in 1912 .
his career was ended by the first world war , to which he was conscripted in 1914 and crucially injured by a gas attack .
hilsdon was nicknamed `` gatling gun '' because his shots `` were simply unstoppable and which travel like shots from a gun . ''
