Howard Vaughton
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Oliver Howard Vaughton was a footballer born 1 September 1861 in Aston, Birmingham died 6 January 1937 in Birmingham.
He played as a forward for Aston Villa before the Football League was formed between 1880 and 1888. He was part of Villa's first FA Cup final victory in 1887. He played in 26 FA Cup matches, scoring 15 goals.
He was also Aston Villa's first senior international, playing for England five times scoring six goals, five of these in a 13-0 victory over Ireland in Belfast on 18 February 1882, with his Villa team-mate Arthur Brown contributing four. Therefore Oliver Vaughton holds the record as the most goals scored by one player during an England international football match.
After his football career ended he ran a silversmith's firm and was charged with making a new FA Cup after the original disappeared in mysterious circumstances in 1895.[1]
Howard Vaughton was also British skating champion and also played cricket for both Staffordshire and Shropshire. A road in Birmingham is also named after the Vaughton Family, which still holds strong links to Birmingham and other areas such as Wales. One of Howard Vaughton's Descendants, Jonny Vaughton, now plays rugby union for the Ospreys and recently competed for Wales' 7's team in the 2006 Commonwealth games in Australia.
| “ | The peoples favourite, and one of Archie Hunter's pet pupils. An adept at every form of indoor and outdoor sport, he dribbled like an angel, and shot like a demon. Not nearly so deadly as his comrade, Whateley, he scored his share of goals. Whatever he did he did well, and was neatness personified. Could scarcely be played in wrong position, and was saturated through and through with the Aston Villa spirit. Scored the only goal in the famous cup tie against Queens Park in Glasgow, in 1884. Made a famous wing in company with Eli Davis. A keen judge of most games, a thorough sportsman, he has enriched sport in many directions. | ” |
The Villa News and Record 1 Sept. 1906
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- ^ icons.org.uk: Stealing the FA Cup
