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George Camsell

English footballer (1902–1966)

Field	Value
name	George Camsell
fullname	George Henry Camsell
image	George-Camsell.jpg
birth_date
birth_place	Framwellgate Moor, England
death_date
death_place	England
height
position	Striker
years1	1920
clubs1	Durham Chapel
years2	1921
clubs2	Framwellgate Moor
years3	1922
clubs3	Tow Law Town
years4	1922
clubs4	Esh Winning
years5	1923
clubs5	Durham City
caps5	0
goals5	0
years6	1923
clubs6	Esh Winning
years7	1924–1925
clubs7	Durham City
caps7	21
goals7	20
years8	1925–1939
clubs8	Middlesbrough
caps8	418
goals8	325
totalcaps	439
totalgoals	335
nationalyears1	1929–1936
nationalteam1	England
nationalcaps1	9
nationalgoals1	18

George Henry Camsell (27 November 1902 – 7 March 1966) was an English footballer who scored a club record 325 league goals in 419 games for Middlesbrough, and 18 goals in nine appearances for England. His 59 goals in one season (1926–27) for Middlesbrough was a Football League record at the time, and has only been bettered once within the English game by Dixie Dean of Everton in 1927–28. His nine hat-tricks that season remains a Football League record. He also holds the highest goals-to-games ratio for England of anyone who has played more than a single international.

Club career

Born in Framwellgate Moor, Durham City in 1902, Camsell worked as a miner and played for Durham City.

The Middlesbrough club record of 59 League goals in 37 games and 63 goals in all competitions in one season is held by Camsell. He accomplished this feat in the 1926–27 season, his first full season with Middlesbrough.

Camsell was Middlesbrough's top scorer in each of his first ten full seasons, and he bagged at least 30 in each of the first five as well as the tenth. Between 1925 and 1939, Camsell scored 345 goals in 453 appearances for Middlesbrough, including 325 league goals, the fifth-highest league total of all-time. The 233 goals he scored in the first division ranks him the 13th all time top scorer in the top flight. He scored 24 hat-tricks in his career, 22 for Middlesbrough. He played his last League game for Middlesbrough against Leicester City at Ayresome Park on 10 April 1939, in a 3–2 victory. Camsell scored the opening goal. He continued to play for them into 1940 following the cessation of the 1939–40 Football League season during the Second World War, playing in wartime competitions.

International career

Camsell also won nine caps for England, scoring 18 goals. This is the highest goals-to-games ratio of anyone who has played more than a single international. His goals included a hat-trick in a 6–0 win against Wales on 20 November 1929 in the 1930 British Home Championship and four goals in a match against Belgium on 11 May 1929. He scored in every match he played for England; his nine consecutive scoring appearances are second only to Steve Bloomer.

Coaching career

During the Second World War, Camsell worked in local factories. After the war, he worked for Middlesbrough's backroom staff, firstly as a scout, where he discovered a young Brian Clough. He then became a coach and eventually the club's assistant secretary.

Death and legacy

Camsell retired in 1963 and died in 1966, aged 63, shortly before that year's World Cup. A suite at Middlesbrough's Riverside Stadium is named after him and in 2015, calls began for a statue of Camsell to be placed outside the stadium, joining those of George Hardwick and Wilf Mannion. A club spokesman said that such an honour could not be ruled out, adding: "As a club we honour and respect our former heroes and George Camsell is certainly one of those." A statue of George Camsell was subsequently erected outside the stadium, which was unveiled to the public on 2 September 2022. It is in front of the West Stand entrance.

Career statistics

Club	Season	League	FA Cup	Total	Division	Apps	Goals	Apps
Middlesbrough	1925–26	Second Division	4	3	0	0	4	3
1926–27	Second Division	37	59	3	4	40	63
1927–28	First Division	40	33	3	4	43	37
1928–29	Second Division	40	30	3	3	43	33
1929–30	First Division	34	29	4	2	38	31
1930–31	First Division	37	32	2	0	39	32
1931–32	First Division	37	20	2	0	39	20
1932–33	First Division	31	17	4	1	35	18
1933–34	First Division	36	23	2	1	38	24
1934–35	First Division	26	14	2	0	28	14
1935–36	First Division	38	28	4	4	42	32
1936–37	First Division	23	18	1	0	24	18
1937–38	First Division	24	9	3	1	27	10
1938–39	First Division	11	10	2	0	13	10

References

(4 August 1924). "League clubs and their players for the coming season. Durham City". Athletic News.
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(30 January 2018). "England players: George Camsell".
(19 September 2015). "George Camsell: The best England striker you never heard of". BBC.
Burnton, Simon. (21 December 2017). "Golden Goals: when George Camsell scored five on Christmas Day, 1926". The Guardian.
"George Camsell".

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