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EDWIN LANGHORNE

Full Name: Edwin George Langhorne

Born: 10 April 1876

Came from: Clapton Went to: Clapton

First game: 29 February 1904 Last game: 29 February 1904

Appearances: 1 (1/0) Goals: 0

Langhorne, born in Hackney in 1876, was playing as an amateur for Clapton in East London when he was "signed to help Argyle when needed with matches in the London area and Plymouth". A defender, he made just one Western League appearance for the club.

[Grateful thanks to www.claptonfc.co.uk for the photo]

YOUR CONTRIBUTION

If you can add to this profile, perhaps with special memories, a favourite story or the results of your original research, please contribute here.

From Andrew Chapman (GoS contributor) in Leeds on 28/01/2014 ...

In trying to find a photo of Edwin (which we did as you can see from his profile today, thanks to colleagues at Clapton FC) we found out a little more about the player.

Greens on Screen friend Mike Curno discovered:

When I found Langhorne I first found a reference to him in January 1904 (2 months before his debut), apparently he agreed to make himself available to Argyle only for matches in the London area. That season, our first professional season, we started with 15 players but when Archie Goodall was poached by us from Derby, the Football League insisted he returned, so we were down to 14 players. In Feb 1904 Wattie Anderson died and the icy pitches and our injuries increased, we had a match coming up against Spurs away on Leap Year Day and Argyle were really short of players. Archie Pinnell was in goal, Clark was out, Cleghorne the trainer played and we had to call on Langhorne who was with Clapton a smaller club than Clapton Orient. The papers already knew he was waiting in the wings to play for us and mentioned him in dispatches before the match that - at last - he might get a game, but it turned out to be his only match for us, and at that level.

As an aside, later in life - 16 years after his game for Argyle - he emigrated to America as there is a record of him arriving on Ellis Island, New York:

First Name: Edwin George

Last Name: Langhorne

Ethnicity: Great Britain, British

Place of Residence: London, England

Age & Gender: 36, M

Marital Status: W

Date of Arrival: Oct 06, 1920

Ship of Travel: Olympic

Port of Departure: Southampton

Port of Arrival: New York, USA

Note: some books have Edwin incorrectly listed as Langhan - he is without doubt, Langhorne.

APPEARANCE DETAILS [reselect competitions]

The details below reflect appearances in all first-team competitions.

I'm very grateful to many who have helped write GoS-DB's player pen-pictures, and to Dave Rowntree, the PAFC Media Team and Colin Parsons for their help with photos. Thanks also to staff at the National Football Museum, the Scottish Football Museum and ScotlandsPeople for their valuable assistance.

The following publications have been particularly valuable in the research of pen-pictures: Plymouth Argyle, A Complete Record 1903-1989 (Brian Knight, ISBN 0-907969-40-2); Plymouth Argyle, 101 Golden Greats (Andy Riddle, ISBN 1-874287-47-3); Football League Players' Records 1888-1939 (Michael Joyce, ISBN 1-899468-67-6); Football League Players' Records 1946-1988 (Barry Hugman, ISBN 1-85443-020-3) and Plymouth Argyle Football Club Handbooks.

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