Fred Davis (footballer)

Infobox Football biography
playername = Fred Davis
fullname = Frederick Davis
dateofbirth = 1871
cityofbirth = Smethwick, Staffordshire
countryofbirth = England
dateofdeath = "Unknown"
position = Wing-half
years = 1893-1899 1899-1900
clubs = Soho Villa Birmingham St George's Woolwich Arsenal Nottingham Forest
caps(goals) = 137 (8) 000 (0)

Frederick "Fred" Davis (born 1871) was an English footballer.

Davis was born in Smethwick and played as a wing-half for local clubs, including Soho Villa and Birmingham St George's before in 1893 signing for Woolwich Arsenal, who had just become the first club from the south of England to join the Football League. He made his league debut for the side in their second-ever league match, a 3-2 defeat away to Notts County on September 9, 1893. He was a near ever-present for the 1893-94 season (missing only one more game) and continued to do so for the four seasons after that.

With Davis in the side Woolwich Arsenal mainly occupied mid-table of the Second Division, reaching as high as 5th in 1897-98. After the end of the 1898-99 season Davis left Arsenal to join First Division Nottingham Forest. He had played exactly 150 games for Arsenal in six seasons, scoring ten goals. However, at Forest he never played a single match and appears to have left football entirely by the year 1900.

References

*cite book
author=Harris, Jeff & Hogg, Tony (ed.)
title=Arsenal Who's Who
publisher=Independent UK Sports
year=1995
id=ISBN 978-1-899429-03-5