- George Tweedy
Football manager infobox
playername = George Tweedy
fullname = George Jacob Tweedy
height = height|ft=6|in=0
dateofbirth = birth date|1913|1|8|df=y
cityofbirth =Willington, County Durham
countryofbirth =England
dateofdeath = death date and age|1987|4|23|1913|1|8|df=y
cityofdeath =
countryofdeath =
currentclub =
position = Goalkeeper
years = 1932–1953
clubs = Grimsby Town
caps(goals) = 347 (0)
youthyears =
youthclubs = Willington
nationalyears = 1936
nationalteam = flagicon|England England
nationalcaps(goals) = 001 (0)
manageryears = 1950–1951
managerclubs = Grimsby Town (Caretaker)George Jacob Tweedy (8 January 1913 – 23 April 1987), was an English footballer who played goalkeeper and earned one cap for England. He was a one club player for Grimsby Town.
He went on to play 347 league games in a
World War II interrupted career spanning 20 years. He is considered to be Grimsby's "best ever goalkeeper".cite book | first=Douglas | last=Lamming | title=A Who's Who of Grimsby Town AFC 1890-1985 | id = ISBN 0-907033-34-2 | year =1985 | publisher = Hutton Press]Grimsby Town
Born in the rural mining town of Willington,
County Durham , Tweedy first played for Durham Schools and then his hometown club Willington F. C. He made his debut for Grimsby against Bradford City on 19 November 1932 upon replacement of Read, the regular goalkeeper, who had a broken finger. At the time of his debut, Grimsby had just been relegated from the First Division, they rejoined the top division in Tweedy's second season with the club by winning the Second Division championship. This led to six consecutive seasons in the top division, twoFA Cup semi finals, the club's highest ever league ranking as fifth and Tweedy winning his only England cap. He went on to miss the second FA Cup semi-final to an injury and was replaced by Moulson, who also injured himself during that semi-final match.World War hiatus
During the
Second World War , players played in teams close to where they were stationed and this gave Tweedy the chance to play with Grimsby Town until 1942. However, most of the team including keeper Tweedy were eventually sent off to battle and this left the remaining team with a mixture of untried young players and guests. Tweedy's replacement in goal was, once again,George Moulson who left for Lincoln County upon Tweedy's return in 1946. Tweedy played as a guest for both Arsenal and Hibernian in the intervening years. After World War 2, Grimsby managed only two more seasons in the First Division and have never regained such a status since. Keeper Tweedy is also the second of three Grimsby players to be capped by England whilst playing for the club. [cite web | title=Grimsby Town Football Club | work=Official Grimsby Town Football Club | url=http://www.grimsby-townfc.premiumtv.co.uk/page/Error/0,,10417,00.html?httpErrorCode=404&httpErrorReason=&httpErrorPath=%2Fclub%2Fview%2Fpast_players%2F0,,10417%7E15008,00.html | accessdate=2006-10-10]He retired as a player in 1950 to become
assistant manager with Grimsby, and from July 1950 to January 1951, [ [http://www.codalmighty.com/site/ca.php?page=club/managers Codalmighty.com] - Grimsby Manager roll call] stayed with the team as caretaker manager. He returned as a player for a small time period in late 1951, before finally retiring on 3 April 1953.England
George played his only game for England on 2 December 1936 at Highbury against Hungary. England won 6–2 in front of a crowd of around 36,000 people. [ [http://www.englandfanzine.co.uk/teams/all_reports.asp?ID=207 Match Report] at EnglandFanzine.co.uk, England vs Hungary, 1936.] He was prevented from acquiring more caps by being in competition with fellow goalkeepers Woodley (19 caps) of Chelsea and Hibbs (25 caps) of Birmingham.
Honours
;Grimsby Town
*Second Division Champions: 1934
*Third Division North Runners Up: 1952References
External links
* [http://www.englandstats.com/playerreport.php?pid=984 George Tweedy] at EnglandStats.com
* [http://www.englandfanzine.co.uk/teams/players.asp?name=George%20Tweedy George Tweedy] at EnglandFanzine.co.uk
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