Sam Bartram

Sam Bartram

Football manager infobox
playername = Sam Bartram


fullname = Samuel Bartram
nickname =
dateofbirth = January 22, 1914
cityofbirth = South Shields
countryofbirth = England
dateofdeath = death date and age|1981|7|17|1914|1|22
cityofdeath = Harpenden
countryofdeath = England
position = Goalkeeper
years =
1934–1956
clubs = Boldon Villa
Charlton Athletic
caps(goals) = 00? (?)
579 (0)
nationalyears =
nationalteam = England Wartime matches
nationalcaps(goals) = 003 (0)
manageryears = 1956–1960
1960–1962
managerclubs = York City
Luton Town

Samuel "Sam" Bartram (January 22, 1914 – July 17, 1981) was an English footballer and manager.

Career

After school, Sam Bartram became a miner and played as either centre forward or wing-half in north east non-league football. As a teenager he had an unsuccessful trial with Reading. When his local village club Boldon Villa were without a goalkeeper for a cup final in 1934 Sam took over in goal. A scout from Charlton Athletic, Angus Seed, was watching the game and Sam played so well that Angus recommended him to Charlton Athletic. In his first three years with Charlton the club rose from Division Three to runners-up in the top division. He subsequently played in goal for Charlton for 22 years, and was never dropped from the team until he retired in 1956. He is considered one of Charlton's greatest players, and their finest keeper.

Bartram was involved in a well reported incident when thick fog closed in on a game he was playing against Chelsea at Stamford Bridge.

"Soon after the kick-off," he wrote in his autobiography, " [fog] began to thicken rapidly at the far end, travelling past Vic Woodley in the Chelsea goal and rolling steadily towards me. The referee stopped the game, and then, as visibility became clearer, restarted it. We were on top at this time, and I saw fewer and fewer figures as we attacked steadily."

The game went unusually silent but Sam remained at his post, peering into the thickening fog from the edge of the penalty area. And he wondered why the play was not coming his way.

"After a long time," he wrote, "a figure loomed out of the curtain of fog in front of me. It was a policeman, and he gaped at me incredulously. "What on earth are you doing here?" he gasped. "The game was stopped a quarter of an hour ago. The field's completely empty".'

Although Sam played for the England B team, he was burdened with the unwanted praise of 'the finest goalkeeper never to play for England' as the England national football team had both Frank Swift and Ted Ditchburn jostling for the goalkeeper position. He played in four successive Wembley finals between 1944 and 1947 and was runner-up in the 1954 Footballer of the Year vote at the age of 40.

Bartram left Charlton to manage York City, then Luton Town, prior to a career as a football columnist for The People and spent his final years in Harpenden. In 1976/7 an estate was built at the Jimmy Seed end of the ground consisting of a block of flats and seven houses. It was named Sam Bartram Close. In 2005, a nine-foot statue of Sam Bartram was erected outside the Valley, home of Charlton Athletic, in order to celebrate the club's centenary.

Fifty years after his retirement, Charlton Athletic named Bartram's bar and restaurant in his honour at their Valley headquarters.

Professional statistics

Sam Bartram holds the following records for Charlton Athletic:
*Most FA Cup Appearances: 44
*Most Total Appearances: 623
*Most League Appearances: 579
*Oldest League Player Aged: 42

Managerial stats

External links

*soccerbase (manager)|id=1115|name=Sam Bartram
* [http://www.addicksonline.co.uk/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=20&Itemid=29 Sam Bartram Biography]


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