Fred Nicholas
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| Full name | Frederick William Herbert Nicholas | ||||||||||||||
| Born | 25 July 1893 Kuala Lumpur, Selangor | ||||||||||||||
| Died | 20 October 1962 (aged 69) Kensington, London, England | ||||||||||||||
| Batting | Right-handed | ||||||||||||||
| Role | Wicketkeeper-batsman | ||||||||||||||
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| Years | Team | ||||||||||||||
| 1912–1929 | Essex | ||||||||||||||
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Source: CricketArchive, 9 August 2017 | |||||||||||||||
Frederick William Herbert Nicholas (25 July 1893 – 20 October 1962) was an English first-class cricketer who played for Essex County Cricket Club in a first-class career that spanned from 1912 to 1929.[1] He toured South Africa with S. B. Joel's team in 1924–25.
Nicholas also played association football as a forward for Great Britain at the 1920 Olympics[2] and for the Corinthian club, for whom he scored 28 goals in 54 appearances.[3]
The cricketer and broadcaster Mark Nicholas is his grandson.[4]
References
[edit]- ^ "Fred Nicholas". Olympedia. Retrieved 16 August 2021.
- ^ "Frederick Nicholas". Sports-Reference.com. Archived from the original on 18 April 2020. Retrieved 9 August 2017.
- ^ Cavallini, Rob (2007). Play Up Corinth: A History of the Corinthian Football Club. Stroud: Stadia. p. 277. ISBN 978-0-7524-4479-6.
- ^ "Fred Nicholas". Cricinfo. Retrieved 9 August 2017.
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Categories:
- 1893 births
- 1962 deaths
- English cricketers
- Essex cricketers
- Bedfordshire cricketers
- Alumni of Hertford College, Oxford
- People educated at Forest School, Walthamstow
- English men's footballers
- Footballers at the 1920 Summer Olympics
- Gentlemen of the South cricketers
- Harlequins cricketers
- Men's association football forwards
- Corinthian F.C. players
- Footballers from Kuala Lumpur
- Sir Julien Cahn's XI cricketers
- English cricketers of 1919 to 1945
- S. B. Joel's XI cricketers
- Olympic footballers for Great Britain