Ivan Sharpe

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Ivan Sharpe
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Sharpe was part of Great Britain's 1912 Olympic gold medal winning football team.
Full name	Ivan Gordon Sharpe
Date of birth	(1889-06-15)15 June 1889
Place of birth	St Albans, Hertfordshire, England
Date of death	9 February 1968(1968-02-09) (aged 78)
Place of death	Southport, Lancashire, England
Playing position	Left winger
Youth career
–1907	St Albans
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps^†	(Gls)^†
1907–1908	Watford	7	(1)
1908–1911	Glossop North End
1911–1913	Derby County
1913–1919	Leeds City
1920	Leeds United
National team
	England amateur
1912	Great Britain
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. † Appearances (Goals).

Olympic medal record
Men's Football
Gold	1912 Stockholm	Team Competition

Ivan Gordon Sharpe (15 June 1889 – 9 February 1968) was an English amateur association football player. Although an amateur himself, he played for several professional clubs, including Watford, Derby County— with whom he won the Football League First Division in 1911–12–and later Leeds United. He represented the England national amateur football team, and also the Great Britain national football team, with whom he won an Olympic gold medal at the 1912 games in Sweden. He is also one of very few players to have played for both Leeds City (65 appearances and 17 goals) and Leeds United (1 appearance 0 goals).

After retirement he enjoyed a long career as a sports journalist, becoming president of the Football Writers Association. He served as editor of the Athletic News Football Annual and also of the Athletic News Cricket Annual. In 1936 he was selected by the BBC to be one of two journalists (the other being Mr F N S Creek) who for the first time provided live commentary on the FA Cup Final.^[1] He continued to contribute a hard-hitting article to the Wolverhampton Wanderers match day programme for many years right up to his death, and he also produced a volume of memoirs "40 Years in Football" in 1954.

References

Specific

↑ "The Cup Final Broadcast". The Times. 21 April 1936. p. 12.

General

Jones, Trefor (1996). The Watford Football Club Illustrated Who's Who. pp. 209–210. ISBN 0-9527458-0-1.
"Ivan Sharp Olympic games profile". Retrieved 14 January 2010.

v t e Great Britain squad – 1912 Summer Olympics Gold Medalists

H. Bailey W. Bailey Berry Brebner Burn Dines Hanney Hoare Knight Littlewort Martin McWhirter Sanders Sharpe Stamper Walden Woodward Wright Coach: Birch

Persondata
Name	Sharpe, Ivan
Alternative names
Short description	English footballer
Date of birth	15 June 1889
Place of birth	St Albans, Hertfordshire, England
Date of death	9 February 1968
Place of death	Southport, Merseyside, England

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