Frederick Wall
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Sir Frederick Joseph Wall was an English football player and administrator. Wall played for the Royal Engineers, and after retiring became Secretary of the Football Association, a position he held from 1895 to 1934. He was knighted in 1930, and famously called Jimmy Hogan a traitor after the latter spent the duration of World War I in Europe.[1] After retiring as FA Secretary, he was a director of Arsenal from 1934 to 1938.[2] Wall credited his original team - the Engineers - with being the first side to play the modern passing football style known as the Combination Game.[3][4]. He credited the Corinthians F.C. with with bringing about the later developments in the passing game[5].
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- ^ "How total football inventor was lost to Hungary". The Guardian. 2003-11-22. http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/2003/nov/22/sport.comment2. Retrieved on 2008-05-05.
- ^ "Arsenal non-players". Archived from the original on 2002-12-14. http://web.archive.org/web/20021214232629/http://homepage.ntlworld.com/andy.kelly/nonplay/nonplay.htm.
- ^ Wall, Sir Frederick (2005). 50 Years of Football, 1884-1934. Soccer Books Limited. ISBN 1-8622-3116-8.
- ^ Cox, Richard (2002) The encyclopaedia of British Football, Routledge, United Kingdom
- ^ 50 Years of football 1884-1934, originally published 1935; repreint 2006 by Soccer books limited, page 10
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