Hugh Edmonds (1877 – ''unknown'') was a Scottish

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who played as a

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Career

Born in

Chryston Chryston is a village in North Lanarkshire, around east of Glasgow, in Scotland. It lies north of its sister village, Muirhead, which is on the A80. The village has around double Muirhead's population, although the exact boundary between the ...

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, Edmonds began his career with

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, where he was loaned to Celtic for a match in the one-off 1902 British League Cup, then won three

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s and the 1903–04 Scottish Division Two title, before moving across the

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to Belfast in 1907 to play for Distillery. He then played for Linfield before joining English

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champions Bolton Wanderers in October 1909. He played four times for Bolton in the First Division in 1909–10, but the club finished bottom of the league in 20th place and were relegated.Dykes (1994), p. 121. He made six more appearances in 1910–11, but spent most of the season in the reserve team. In February 1911, he moved to Manchester United as cover for the injured

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. He made his debut in a 3–1 win at home to

Bristol City Bristol City Football Club is a professional football club based in Bristol, England, which compete in the , the second tier of English football. They have played their home games at Ashton Gate since moving from St John's Lane in 1904. The ...

on 11 February. With Edmonds in goal, Manchester United lost only two of their final 13 league matches and conceded just 12 goals as they went on to clinch their second league title by a single point over runners-up Aston Villa. He claimed his second piece of silverware with the club at the start of the following season as Manchester United beat

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8–4 in the

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, and retained his place in the team for much of the 1911–12 season; aside from five appearances for Moger (one in a 3–1 win over Aston Villa on 25 November and four more at the end of the season) and two for Ezra Royals (against

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on 23 March and Aston Villa on 30 March), Edmonds played in every match. However, the team suffered a slump in form compared to the previous season and finished in 13th place. At the end of the season, he took the job of player-manager at Glenavon back in Ireland, before returning to Distillery a year later. During his time in Ireland, Edmonds earned one cap for the

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.Joyce (2005), p. 82.

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