Norman Cooper (sportsman)

Norman Cooper
Personal information
Full name Norman Charles Cooper
Date of birth (1870-07-12)12 July 1870
Place of birth Norbiton, Surrey, England
Date of death 30 July 1920(1920-07-30) (aged 50)
Place of death Hampden Park, East Sussex, England
Playing position Wing half
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
Cambridge University
Corinthian
Old Brightonians
National team
1893 England 1 (0)
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only.

Norman Charles Cooper (12 July 1870 – 30 July 1920) was an English sportsman who represented the England national football team and played first-class cricket with Cambridge University.

Cooper was educated at Brighton College and Trinity Hall, Cambridge.[1]

A wing-half, Cooper's only international cap came against Ireland at Perry Barr in the 1893 British Home Championship, with England winning 6-1.[2]

Cooper was a right-handed opening batsman for Cambridge University at first-class cricket level and played 11 matches for them, one a combined team with Oxford. He also played a match for the CI Thornton's XI and in 1892 took the field for the HT Hewett's XII against Cambridge after he switched sides when his intended opponents revealed they had only 10 players.[3]

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