Eddie Mosscrop
Football player
1892 – 1980
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Who was Eddie Mosscrop?
Edwin "Eddie" Mosscrop was an English professional footballer who played as a winger. He won two caps for the England national football team in 1914 and was part of the Burnley side which won the FA Cup in 1914. He served with the British Army in Salonika during the First World War, before returning to Burnley in 1919. He was forced to retire from professional football in November 1922 due to a serious illness and subsequently returned to his hometown of Southport to work as a schoolteacher. He was the last surviving pre-World War I England international.
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