Frederick Mearns
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Frederick Mearns (31 March 1879 – 22 January 1931) was an English footballer who played for Hartlepool United and Barnsley as a goalkeeper. During his time with Barnsley, he was an FA Cup finalist in 1910. Mearns later worked as a trainer for Durham City.[1]
Club career
Tottenham signed Mearns from Kettering Town in March 1903 to be understudy to Charlie Williams.Script error: No such module "Footnotes".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". He made his debut on 5 October 1903 for Spurs in a Western League game to Queens Park Rangers where he kept a clean sheet in a 3–0 win.Script error: No such module "Footnotes".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".Script error: No such module "Footnotes".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". By the end of the season Mearns helped Tottenham to win the Western League. He played a total of five Southern League games, four Western League games and four London League games and then moved onto Bradford City.
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Mearns joined Hartlepool United in 1908 for their inaugural season in the North Eastern League where they came fourth.[2] In the summer of 1909 he joined Barnsley.[3] He played in the Barnsley side who reached the FA Cup in 1910.[4]
Honours
Tottenham Hotspur
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Barnsley
- FA Cup runner-up: 1910Script error: No such module "Footnotes".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".
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- 1879 births
- 1931 deaths
- Footballers from Sunderland
- Men's association football goalkeepers
- English men's footballers
- Barnsley F.C. players
- Hartlepool United F.C. players
- Grays Athletic F.C. players
- Sunderland A.F.C. players
- Kettering Town F.C. players
- Tottenham Hotspur F.C. players
- Bradford City A.F.C. players
- Southern United F.C. (England) players
- Barrow A.F.C. players
- Bury F.C. players
- Stockton F.C. players
- Leicester City F.C. players
- Newcastle United F.C. players
- English Football League players
- Sunderland West End F.C. players