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Angus Seed
Personal information
Full name	Angus Cameron Seed
Date of birth	6 February 1893
Place of birth	Lanchester, England
Date of death	7 February 1953 (aged 60)
Place of death	Barnsley, England
Position(s)	Right back
Senior career*
Years	Team
	Whitburn
	South Shields
	Seaham Harbour
1913	Everton
1914	Leicester Fosse
1914	Reading
1919	St Bernard's
1919–	Mid Rhondda
0000–1923	Ebbw Vale
1922–1923	Broxburn United
	Workington
Managerial career
	Workington
1927–1937	Aldershot
1937–1953	Barnsley
	*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Angus Cameron Seed MM (6 February 1893 – 7 February 1953) was an English professional footballer, best remembered for his 16 years as manager of Barnsley in the Football League.^[3] He had a long playing career as a right back in non-League football and after retiring,^[1] he was Aldershot's first-ever manager and worked as a scout for Charlton Athletic.^[4]^[5]

Personal life

Seed's younger brother Jimmy was also a professional footballer, who played for Tottenham Hotspur, Sheffield Wednesday and England.^[6] Angus Seed served in the 2nd and 17th Battalions of the Middlesex Regiment during the First World War.^[7] On the night of 1–2 June 1916, he won the Military Medal for his actions as a stretcher bearer on Vimy Ridge,^[8] dragging wounded men back to the British dugouts under heavy fire.^[6] One of the men Seed dragged back, former Arsenal assistant trainer Tom Ratcliff, later became Seed's trainer at Barnsley.^[9] Later in June 1916, Seed received a shrapnel wound in the right hip,^[10] which eventually caused him to retire from football.^[2] He died of chronic bronchitis at Kendray Hospital in Barnsley on 7 February 1953.^[2]

Honours

Aldershot

Southern League Eastern Division: 1929–30^[4]

Barnsley

Football League Third Division North: 1938–39^[3]

Career statistics

Appearances and goals by club, season and competition
Club	Season	League			National Cup		Total
Club	Season	Division	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals
Leicester Fosse	1913–14^[11]	Second Division	3	0	0	0	3	0
St Bernard's	1919–20^[12]	Central League	1	0	0	0	1	0
Broxburn United	1922–23^[12]	Scottish Second Division	32	0	1	0	33	0
Career total			36	0	1	0	37	0

References

^ ^a ^b Joyce, Michael (2012). Football League Players' Records 1888 to 1939. Nottingham: Tony Brown. p. 259. ISBN 978-1905891610.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d O'Kane, Doug. "Comment: No real excuses for Barnsley's dismal run, unlike in 1953". Barnsley Chronicle. Retrieved 25 December 2015.
^ ^a ^b "Angus Seed". League Managers Association. Archived from the original on 22 December 2015. Retrieved 16 December 2015.
^ ^a ^b "The Manager Issue 22". www.themanager-magazine.com. p. 18. Archived from the original on 22 September 2017. Retrieved 25 December 2015.
^ "Sam Bartram: Eternal showman". ESPNFC.com. Retrieved 16 December 2015.
^ ^a ^b Hutchinson, John. "Leicester Fosse and the First World War: Part 10". www.lcfc.com. Retrieved 16 December 2015.
^ "Angus Cameron Seed | Service Record". Football and the First World War. Retrieved 30 December 2020.
^ Riddoch, Andrew; Kemp, David (2010). When the Whistle Blows: The Story of the Footballers' Battalion in the Great War. Sparkford, Yeovil, Somerset: Haynes Publishing. p. 163. ISBN 978-0857330772.
^ Phillips, Owen; Aloia, Andrew. "The Last Pass". BBC News. Retrieved 13 November 2018.
^ Riddoch & Kemp 2010, p. 106.
^ "Angus Seed | Leicester City career stats". FoxesTalk. 26 June 2016. Retrieved 22 January 2017.
^ ^a ^b Litster, John. Record of Pre-War Scottish League Players. Norwich: PM Publications.

External links

Angus Seed management career statistics at Soccerbase

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