Ivan Sharpe
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| Gold | 1912 Stockholm | Team Competition |
Ivan Gordon Sharpe (June 15, 1889 in St Albans – February 9, 1968) was an English amateur football (soccer) player who competed in the 1912 Summer Olympics.
He was part of the English team, which won the gold medal in the football tournament. He played all three matches.
He is also one of a very small elite club that played for both Leeds City (65 appearances and 17 goals) and Leeds United (1 appearance 0 goals).
After retirement he enjoyed a long career as a football journalist, contributing a hard-hitting article to the Wolverhampton Wanderers match day programme for many years right up to his death, and producing a volume of memoirs "40 Years in Football" in 1954.
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Categories: 1889 births | 1968 deaths | English footballers | England amateur international footballers | Brighton & Hove Albion F.C. players | Watford F.C. players | Derby County F.C. players | Leeds City F.C. players | Leeds United A.F.C. players | Pre-1914 association football players | Footballers at the 1912 Summer Olympics | Olympic footballers of Great Britain | Olympic gold medalists for Great Britain
