Edgar Page
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| Born |
31 December 1884 Wolverhampton, England | |||||||||||||
| Died |
12 May 1956 (aged 71) Wolverhampton, England | |||||||||||||
| Playing position | Centre-half | |||||||||||||
| Senior career | ||||||||||||||
| Years | Team | |||||||||||||
| 1901–1911 | Wolverhampton | |||||||||||||
| 1912–1913 | Penn Fields | |||||||||||||
| National team | ||||||||||||||
| Years | Team | Caps | ||||||||||||
| 1907–1920 | England | 15 | ||||||||||||
Medal record
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Edgar Wells Page (31 December 1884 – 12 May 1956) was an English former field hockey player, who won a gold medal with the Great Britain team at the 1908 Summer Olympics in London.[1]
Biography
Page was educated at Repton School and played club hockey for Wolverhampton and won 15 caps for England.[2] He represented Staffordshire at county level.[3]
He also played cricket for Staffordshire in the Minor Counties Championship from 1905 to 1927,[4] as well as playing a single first-class match for the Minor Counties against HDG Leveson-Gower's XI in 1924.[5][6]
During World War I he won the Military Cross.[2]
After his playing days he continued his career as a chartered accountant.[2]
References
- ^ Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Edgar Page Olympic Results". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 18 April 2020. Retrieved 8 September 2019.
- ^ a b c "Edgar Page". Olympedia. Retrieved 4 August 2025.
- ^ "Staffordshire vs Worcestershire". Field. 9 November 1901. Retrieved 4 August 2025 – via British Newspaper Archive.
- ^ "Minor Counties Championship Matches played by Edgar Page". CricketArchive. Retrieved 3 June 2011.
- ^ "First-Class Matches played by Edgar Page". CricketArchive. Retrieved 3 June 2011.
- ^ "Olympians Who Played First-Class Cricket". Olympedia. Retrieved 28 July 2020.
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