fullname youthclubs years death_date death_place clubs birth_place caps goals nationalteam position nationalcaps nationalyears birth_date article_title name nationalgoals
frederick samuel fox swindon town 1921-1922 1922-1925 1925-1927 1927-1928 1928-1931 15 may 1968 high wycombe , england swindon brentford truro city town preston north end gillingham millwall halifax town swindon , england 3 106 28 13 74 0 0 0 0 0 england goalkeeper 1 1925 22 november 1898 freddie fox -lrb- footballer -rrb-
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freddie fox -lrb- footballer -rrb-

frederick samuel `` freddie '' fox -lrb- born highworth , near swindon , 22 november 1898 , died high wycombe , 15 may 1968 -rrb- was an english football goalkeeper .
he played for several clubs , including gillingham -lrb- where he played over 100 football league matches -rrb- and brentford during the 1920s and 1930s , and also gained one cap for england .
as a youngster he was on the books of swindon town before joining abertillery .
during the first world war he guested for swindon town in wartime matches .
in the 1921-22 season he joined preston north end and played three matches in the first division , before joining gillingham in 1922 where he played three seasons in the third division -lrb- south -rrb- , making over 100 appearances .
in 1925 he was selected to represent england against france , representing a rare case of a player being selected for england from the third division .
there was some dispute as to which club fox was playing for at the time of his appearance for england , with reference sources varying between millwall and gillingham .
fox was reputed to have signed papers for millwall while on the boat travelling to the game , making him a gillingham player when selected to play , but a millwall player when taking the field .
however , upon further research , his transfer to millwall was logged by the football league on 29 april 1925 , nearly a month before the game took place .
in the match itself , played on 21 may 1925 , he had to leave the field in the 75th minute following a head injury sustained in a charge by goalscorer jules dewaquez , and was prevented from completing his sole appearance for england .
following an earlier withdrawal by goalscorer vivian gibbins , england finished with nine men , but managed to hang on to win the game 3-2 .
he remained with millwall for two seasons , before joining halifax town for the 1927-28 season .
he then signed for brentford where he played in the third division south for the next three seasons , before playing out his career with truro city .
later in life , fox served as a director at hometown club swindon town .
