Charles Redfearn Freeman (22 August 1887 – 17 March 1956) was an English professional
footballer
A football player or footballer is a sportsperson who plays one of the different types of football. The main types of football are association football, American football, Canadian football, Australian rules football, Gaelic football, rugby le ...
who played in the
Football League
The English Football League (EFL) is a league of professional football clubs from England and Wales. Founded in 1888 as the Football League, the league is the oldest such competition in the world. It was the top-level football league in Engla ...
for
Chelsea,
Gillingham and
Burton United
Burton United Football Club was a football club based in Burton upon Trent in England. The club was established in 1901 by a merger of Burton Swifts and Burton Wanderers, and played their last competitive season in 1910. In 1924 they merged with ...
as an
inside forward.
After his retirement, he served Chelsea as trainer and
groundsman.
Freeman was also a
cricket
Cricket is a bat-and-ball game played between two teams of eleven players on a field at the centre of which is a pitch with a wicket at each end, each comprising two bails balanced on three stumps. The batting side scores runs by striki ...
er and played one
first-class cricket match for
Derbyshire in July 1911.
Personal life
Freeman served as a
corporal in the
Royal Air Force during the
First World War and worked at the
Royal Aircraft Factory.
Career statistics
Honours
Chelsea
*
Football League Second Division second-place promotion:
1911–12
References
External links
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1887 births
1956 deaths
People from Overseal
Footballers from Derbyshire
English men's footballers
Men's association football inside forwards
Overseal Swifts F.C. players
Burton United F.C. players
Fulham F.C. players
Gillingham F.C. players
Chelsea F.C. players
Maidstone United F.C. (1897) players
English Football League players
Chelsea F.C. non-playing staff
English cricketers
Derbyshire cricketers
Royal Air Force personnel of World War I
Brentford F.C. wartime guest players
Cricketers from Derbyshire
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