Len Puddefoot

{{Infobox football biography

|name = Len Puddefoot

|image = Len_Puddefoot_(cropped_from_1919-20_team_photo).jpg

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|caption = Puddefoot at West Ham United during the 1919–20 season.

|fullname = Leonard Frederick Puddefoot

|birth_date = {{birth date|1898|11|22|df=y}}

|birth_place = Limehouse, England

|death_date = {{death year and age|1996|1898}}

|death_place = Tower Hamlets, England

|height =

|position = Forward{{cite web| url=http://www.londonhearts.com/scores/images/1922/1922081602.htm|title=Hibernians, 1; Falkirk 0|newspaper=The Scotsman|via=London Hearts|accessdate=7 October 2017}}

|youthyears1 =

|youthclubs1 =

|years1 = 1919–1920

|clubs1 = West Ham United

|caps1 = 0

|goals1 = 0

|years2 = 1921–1922

|clubs2 = Cette

|caps2 =

|goals2 =

|years3 = 1922

|clubs3 = West Ham United

|caps3 = 0

|goals3 = 0

|years4 = 1922

|clubs4 = Falkirk

|caps4 = 1

|goals4 = 0

|manageryears1 = 1927–1928

|managerclubs1 = Örgryte

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Leonard Frederick Puddefoot (22 November 1898 – 1996){{cite web|url=https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QVZD-GHQ7|title=Leonard Frederick Puddefoot, England and Wales Death Registration Index 1837–2007|publisher=FamilySearch|accessdate=30 November 2017}} was an English football player and manager.

Career

=Playing career=

Puddefoot started his career at West Ham United and appeared in the team photograph for the 1919–20 season.{{cite web|url=http://theyflysohigh.co.uk/first-team-1910-to-1920/4555225638| title=1919–20| website=theyflysohigh.co.uk| last=Marsh| first=Steve| accessdate=30 November 2017}} He played with French club Cette in the 1921–22 season.{{cite news| title=Scottish League Campaign| newspaper=Athletic News| page=6| date=7 August 1922| url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000986/19220807/117/0006| url-access=subscription| via=British Newspaper Archive}}

He joined Falkirk from West Ham United{{cite book |last=Hogg |first=Tony |title=Who's Who of West Ham United |year=2005 |publisher=Profile Sports Media| isbn= 1-903135-50-8 |page=170}} on a month's trial, following his brother Syd, who had moved across the border for a then record transfer fee of £5,000 in February 1922.{{cite web| url=http://www.scotsman.com/sport/football/teams/falkirk/when-falkirk-broke-the-world-transfer-record-1-4316117| title=When Falkirk broke the world transfer record| last=Ferguson| first=Ed|newspaper=The Scotsman| date=13 December 2016| accessdate=1 October 2017}} Puddefoot played a single game for the Scottish club, the first game of the 1922–23 season against Hibernian on 16 August 1922.{{cite web|url=http://www.falkirk-football-history.co.uk/2015/09/sydney-leonard-puddefoot.html| title=Sydney & Leonard Puddefoot| website=Falkirk Football Historian| date=1 September 2015| accessdate=26 September 2017}}

=Coaching career=

Puddefoot coached Swedish side Örgryte between 1927 and 1928.{{cite web|url=http://fotboll.ois.se/orgryte+is/klubbdata/4755/Sida.aspx|title=Klubbdata|accessdate=7 December 2009|publisher=Örgryte IS|trans-title=Club Data|language=sv|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150204040107/http://fotboll.ois.se/orgryte+is/klubbdata/4755/Sida.aspx|archivedate=4 February 2015|url-status=dead}} The team won the Allsvenskan that season, but due to the dual-league system at the time, they were not crowned champions.{{cite web|url=https://svenskfotboll.se/allsvenskan/historik/| title=History| publisher=Swedish Football Association|accessdate=7 October 2017}}