Edgar Wallace Chadwick (14 June 1869 – 14 February 1942) was a left-sidedfootballer who had a long and distinguished career withEverton during the 1890s. He was also the national coach for theNetherlands from 1908 to 1913.

Edgar Chadwick

Personal information
Full name	Edgar Wallace Chadwick
Date of birth	(1869-06-14)14 June 1869
Place of birth	Blackburn, England
Date of death	14 February 1942(1942-02-14) (aged 72)
Place of death	Blackburn, England
Height	5 ft 6 in (1.68 m)
Position(s)	Inside left
Youth career
1884–1886	Little Dots F.C.
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
1886–1887	Blackburn Olympic	0	(0)
1887–1888	Blackburn Rovers	0	(0)
1888–1899	Everton	270	(97)
1899–1900	Burnley	31	(10)
1900–1902	Southampton	52	(18)
1902–1904	Liverpool	43	(7)
1904–1905	Blackpool	34	(8)
1905–1906	Glossop North End	35	(5)
1906–1908	Darwen
Total		465	(145)
International career
1891–1897	England	7	(3)
Managerial career
1908–1913	Netherlands
	HVV
	HFC
1915	Sparta Rotterdam
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

His cousin,Arthur Chadwick, also played forEngland andSouthampton, while another cousin,Albert Chadwick, played forEverton.

Born inBlackburn, he started his career at 15 with Little Dots FC, before signing as a professional withBlackburn Olympic in 1886. After one season at Olympic, he then joinedBlackburn Rovers where he spent the 1887–88 season before signing forEverton in July 1888.

Described by one source as one of the best known players of his day, 5 ft 6 in tall, he was a master strategist and dribbler with the ball.^[1]

Chadwick signed for Everton on 1 July 1888 and made his club and league debut on 8 September 1888, playing as a forward, atAnfield, the then home of Everton. The home team defeated the visitorsAccrington 2–1. When he played as a forward against Accrington on 8 September 1888, Chadwick was 19 years 86 days old; which made him, on that first weekend of league football, Everton's youngest player. Chadwick scored his debut club and league goal on 15 September 1888, playing as a forward, at Anfield. The visitors wereNotts County and the home team won 2–1 with Chadwick scoring the first of Everton's two goals. Chadwick appeared in all the 22 League matches played by Everton in the 1888–89 season and was the only player to achieve 22 matches in that first season. Chadwick also top scored for Everton with six League goals. Chadwick played in a forward line that scored three–League–goals–or–more on four separate occasions.^[2][3]

He was an ever-present in Everton's first two years as a Football League team. In 1889–90 Everton finished runners-up, with Chadwick contributing nine goals. He scored in five of the 14 League Games Everton won that season.^[4] In the following season,1890–91, Everton won the League Championship with Chadwick contributing ten goals and assisting fellow forwardsFred Geary andAlf Milward to score 20 and 12, respectively, as Everton were also the top scorers with a total of 63 goals from 22 games.

Chadwick was nicknamed "Hooky", as his frequent trick was to run with the ball parallel with the goal line, drawing the goalkeeper in the direction of the post, before hooking the ball into the opposite corner of the net.

In1893, Everton reached the final of theFA Cup, played atFallowfield Stadium in Manchester, where they were defeated 1–0 byWolverhampton Wanderers.

Over the next few seasons, Everton continued to be a major force in the Football League, coming runner-up in1894–95 and reaching another Cup final in1897 played atCrystal Palace where again they were defeated, this time byAston Villa, 3–2.

Chadwick spent two further seasons at Everton before joiningBurnley in May 1899.

In all, he spent eleven years with Everton, making 270 league appearances, plus a further 30 in the FA Cup, contributing 97 league and 13 cup goals. His goals tally ranks him eighth in the all-time list of Everton goal-scorers and makes him the earliest of Everton's football "legends".

Chadwick's contribution to Everton's League winning team was recognised by a call up to theEngland team (alongside Alf Milward) for the British Home Championship match againstWales on 7 March 1891. England were comfortable 4–1 winners with Chadwick and Milward claiming a goal each. Chadwick went on to make a total of seven appearances for England, scoring 3 goals.

His season at Burnley was not a great success, and although Chadwick was the team's top scorer, with ten goals, he could not prevent them being relegated to the Second Division. In a match againstGlossop North End in December 1899, Chadwick scored all three goals in a 3–1 victory.

In August 1900 he moved toSouthern LeagueSouthampton, where he was re-united with his former Everton left-wing colleague Alf Milward. Chadwick and Milward's partnership contributed 26 goals (14 and 12, respectively) as Southampton once again took the Southern League championship. In the following season, Southampton reached theFA Cup final, which they lost in a replay toSheffield United.

In May 1902 he sought fresh fields, but as Burnley still held his Football League registration he had to pay them £35 to release him to joinLiverpool, where he stayed for two seasons before moving on toBlackpool in 1904. He was an ever-present for Blackpool in his one season with the club, and was also the club's top scorer with eight goals.^[5]

He then played out his career with a season atGlossop North End before dropping out of the league to joinDarwen where his long career finally ended in 1908 aged 39.

After hanging up his boots in 1908, he moved to the continent where he coached in Germany before moving to the Netherlands where he coached various club sides includingThe Hague andHaarlem sides.

In 1908, Chadwick was approached to become coach of the Netherlands national team. The experts are in disagreement as to whether Chadwick, or his predecessorCees van Hasselt, should be considered as the first manager of the Netherlands national team.

Chadwick was appointed manager of theNetherlands to prepare the team for the1908 Summer Olympics held in London. AsHungary had pulled out of the tournament, the Netherlands had a bye into the semi-finals, where they metGreat Britain. This match ended in a 4–0 defeat (with all four goals coming fromHarold Stapley, who later spent six seasons withGlossop North End); and the Netherlands then playedSweden for thebronze medal, winning 2–0, as a result of which the Dutch gained their first international success.

Chadwick managed the Netherlands national team for 24 games (generally friendlies against Belgium), winning 14. In 1909 they met theEngland amateur side and were defeated 9–1 (with six goals fromVivian Woodward, who was an amateur who spent six seasons withChelsea), but againstBelgium,Germany andSweden they avoided defeat.

During the1912 Summer Olympics held inStockholm (where eleven teams participated in the football tournament, against only six in 1908) the Dutch defeatedSweden andAustria, but lost in thesemi-final 4–1 toDenmark. In the play-off for the bronze medalFinland were crushed 9–0 withJan Vos scoring five goals.

The greatest success of Chadwick's career as Dutch manager came on 24 March 1913, in a friendly against the English amateurs, which resulted in a 2–1 victory. Both Dutch goals came fromHuug de Groot. After the matchVivian Woodward generously conceded: "The best team won."

Chadwick led the Netherlands national team again, in November 1913, when the English gained their revenge with a 2–1 victory.

He was also the coach ofSparta Rotterdam, with whom he won the 1915 Netherlands championship.

AfterWorld War I, he returned toBlackburn and reverted to his original trade as a baker. In December 1923, he applied for the manager's job atBlackpool, but after being on a short-list of two, he lost out toFrank Buckley.

Everton

• Football League champions:1890–91
• FA Cup finalist:1893 and1897

Southampton

• FA Cup finalist:1902
• Southern League championships: 1900–01

Netherlands

• Olympic Games – Bronze medal:1908 &1912

Sparta Rotterdam

• Dutch Championship: 1915
• Dutch Western Division: 1915

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General

• Holley, Duncan & Chalk, Gary (1992).The Alphabet of the Saints. ACL & Polar Publishing.ISBN 0-9514862-3-3.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
• Chalk, Gary & Holley, Duncan (1987).Saints – A complete record. Breedon Books.ISBN 0-907969-22-4.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
• Career record as Netherlands manager

Specific

• Edgar Chadwick at Englandstats.com 
• Liverpool FC Profile
• Everton F.C. Profile