Sam Wynne
{{short description|English footballer}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=March 2016}}
{{Use British English|date=March 2016}}
{{Infobox football biography
| name = Sam Wynne
| fullname = Samuel Wynne
| image =
| birth_date = {{birth date|1897|4|26|df=y}}
| birth_place = Neston, England
| death_date = {{death date and age|1927|4|30|1897|4|26|df=y}}
| death_place= Sheffield, England
| height = {{height|ft=5|in=9+1/2}}{{cite news |title=Few big transfers in the First Division of the Football League. Oldham Athletic |author=Harricus |newspaper=Athletic News |location=Manchester |date=21 August 1922 |page=5}}
| position = Right back
| years1 = 1921–1926 | clubs1 = Oldham Athletic | caps1 = 145 | goals1 = 9
| years2 = 1926–1927 | clubs2 = Bury | caps2 = 18 | goals2 = 1
| totalcaps = 163 |totalgoals =10
}}
Samuel Wynne (26 April 1897 – 30 April 1927) was a footballer who died while playing in a Football League First Division match.
Career
Wynne played as a right back and started his career in local-league football with Neston Colliery. He later had a spell with Welsh side Connah's Quay & Shotton United before joining Football League club Oldham Athletic at the start of the 1921–22 season.
In 1923, Wynne became the first player to score two goals for both sides during Oldham's Football League First Division match against Manchester United.{{cite web|publisher=FIFA.com|title=The own goal club|url=https://www.fifa.com/newscentre/features/news/newsid=1325896/|archive-url=https://archive.today/20130409154146/http://www.fifa.com/newscentre/features/news/newsid=1325896/|url-status=dead|archive-date=9 April 2013|date=29 October 2010}} In 1976, Chris Nicholl became the second top tier player to achieve this feat playing for Aston Villa against Leicester City.
Wynne stayed with Oldham for five seasons, making 145 league appearances in total, scoring nine goals. He signed for Bury in the summer of 1926 and played 18 league matches for the club before his death in April of the following year.{{FL Joyce|page=290}}
Death
On 30 April 1927, during Bury's Football League First Division match away to Sheffield United, Wynne collapsed while placing the ball for a free kick after the Sheffield forward Harry Johnson had been adjudged offside. He was stretchered from the field of play and pronounced dead; the cause of death was determined to be a cerebral haemorrhage.{{cite news|publisher=Ottawa Citizen|title=Tragic death of football player|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=2194&dat=19270430&id=EaQuAAAAIBAJ&sjid=otkFAAAAIBAJ&pg=6642,4356747|page=26|date=30 April 1927}} The match, which Sheffield had led 1–0 through an own goal from Bury's Jimmy Porter, was subsequently abandoned.{{cite news|newspaper=The Times|location=London|date=2 May 1927|issue=44570|page=7|title=Player falls dead}} Sam Wynne's memorial is located in Neston cemetery.
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Category:English men's footballers
Category:Association football players who died while playing
Category:Connah's Quay & Shotton F.C. players
Category:Oldham Athletic A.F.C. players
Category:English Football League players
Category:Men's association football defenders
Category:Sport deaths in England
Category:Footballers from Cheshire
Category:20th-century English sportsmen
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