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Frederick Charles Keenor (31 July 1894 – 19 October 1972) was a Welsh professional footballer.He began his career at his hometown side Cardiff City after impressing the club's coaching staff in a trial match in 1912 organised by his former schoolteacher.
Robert Earnshaw, the club's third highest scorer of all time and the most recent player to pass 100 goals. Cardiff City Football Club is a professional association football club based in Cardiff, Wales. The club was founded in 1899 as Riverside A.F.C., by members of a local cricket club, and joined the Cardiff & District League the following year. In 1907, they joined the South Wales Amateur ...
Fred Keenor: 1927 FA Cup winning captain: 1934–1938 Wales: Arthur Granville: No competitive football took place between 1939 and 1945 due to World War II. 1946–1949 Wales: Fred Stansfield: Third Division South winning captain: 1951–1956 Wales: Alf Sherwood: 1959–1960 Scotland: Danny Malloy: 1961–1962 Wales: Alan Harrington: 1964 ...
George Latham was the only other Cardiff player to play in an international match before the First World War. [3] [4] Fred Keenor was the first player to win a cap after the war, in March 1920, while Jimmy Blair became the first Cardiff player to represent a country other than Wales when he played for Scotland against Ireland later the same year.
Over the course of their decline in the early 1930s, several of the club's long-serving players moved on, including Fred Keenor, Len Davies and Billy Hardy. Manager Fred Stewart, who had been in charge for 22 years, and trainer George Latham also left their positions. [25] [43] Stewart remains the longest serving manager in the club's history. [44]
A statue of Fred Keenor holding the FA Cup outside the Cardiff City Stadium. Cardiff City were competing in the First Division of the Football League for the seventh consecutive season. [1] The previous season, Cardiff had become the first team from outside England to win the FA Cup by defeating Arsenal 1–0 in the 1927 FA Cup Final at Wembley ...
Fred Keenor later remarked on Davies' missed penalty, commenting "There is no doubt that the excitement and the knowledge that so much depended on the shot unnerved Len a little. Under ordinary circumstances it would have been a gift goal, but Len Davies muffed the kick and the ball rolled gently to the goalkeeper, who calmly gathered and made ...
The run began with a defeat against Birmingham in which Stewart experimented with team selection, including defender Fred Keenor at centre-forward. Cardiff took a 2–0 lead with goals from Willie Davies and Keenor but Birmingham recovered to take the victory, winning 3–2. [15]