Arthur Egerton Knight (7
September 1887 – 10 March 1956) was an English
amateur
football player who earned 30
amateur international caps. He played all three matches for
the gold medal winning
English team in the
1912 Summer Olympics and also
played for England in the
1920
Summer Olympics.
A. E.
Knight, as he was always referred to in the
press, captained England on one occasion, playing left-back against
Ireland
on 25 October 1919 at Windsor Park
, Belfast. The match ended in a 1-1 draw. He
also won a cap for the full England side, against Ireland in
1920.
He played for Surrey as a schoolboy, and joined
Godalming Town F.C. after leaving
school. He began working for an insurance company and, through his
job, moved to Portsmouth in 1908.
Pompey snapped up the left back, and he
spent a season in the reserves before making his first team debut
in
Southern League Division
One. He captained the Pompey side that won the 1920 Southern League
Championship, and but for injury would have led the side in their
first Football League fixture. Knight, who also played
county cricket for
Hampshire over a period of ten
years, left Pompey in 1922, and played out the remainder of his
football career with the legendary
Corinthians amateur club, who granted him
life membership.
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