Louis Page

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Louis Page

Personal information
Full name	Louis Antonio Page
Date of birth	27 March 1899(1899-03-27)
Place of birth	Kirkdale, Liverpool, England
Date of death	11 October 1959 (aged 60)
Place of death	Prenton, England
Playing position	Forward
Youth career
000?–?	Sudley Juniors
Senior career1
Years	Club	Apps2	(Gls)2
000?–?	Everton
000?–?	South Liverpool
000?–?	Stoke City
000?–?	Burnley	248 (11)
000?–?	Manchester United
1932–1933	Port Vale	018 0(2)
1933–1935	Yeovil & Petters United
National team
1927	England	007 0(1)
Teams managed
1933–1935	Yeovil & Petters United
1935–1937	Newport County
000?–?	Glentoran
000?–?	Carlton
1945–1953	Swindon Town
1953–1956	Chester
1 Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. 2 Appearances (Goals).

Louis Antonio Page (27 March 1899 – 11 October 1959) was an England international football player and football manager. He was the younger brother of Tom Page.

Contents 1 Playing career 1.1 Club career 1.2 International career 2 Management career 2.1 Swindon Town 2.2 Post-Swindon 3 International career 3.1 Appearances 3.2 Honours 4 References

[edit] Playing career

[edit] Club career

Page began his senior career with Merseyside clubs Everton and South Liverpool. He entered professional football with Stoke City, with whom he made 21 appearances before leaving to make over 100 league outings for Northampton Town. Page later left the Cobblers for Burnley where he made 248 league appearances and scoring 111 goals. During his spell with the club, Page achieve the remarkable feat of scoring 6 goals (a double-hat-trick) in a single game, with a hat-trick scored in either half.^{[citation needed]}

After leaving Burnley, Page joined Manchester United, before moving on to Port Vale in October 1982. He played 19 games in all competitions during the 1932–33 season, falling out of favour in March 1933 before becoming player-manager at Yeovil & Petters United, having been released at the end of the season.^[1]

[edit] International career

Page featured for England seven times in 1927, alongside England and Everton great Dixie Dean. He played four British Home Championship games and three friendlies, he scored against Belgium on 1 May 1927,^[2] in the 63rd minute bagging one in a 9–1 victory.^[3]

He also played for the English baseball team, along with his brother.^[1]

[edit] Management career

Page's first managerial post was with Yeovil & Petters United, also being registered as a player. He left the position in 1935 to become manager at Welsh club Newport County, where he stayed for two years.

After leaving Newport he became trainer-coach at Glentoran and then, afterwards, manager of Liverpool-based Carlton.

[edit] Swindon Town

When league football resumed after the Second World War, he was appointed manager of Swindon Town. The club had closed down during the war, meaning they were at a disadvantage to other clubs – the only player to keep a regular place in the side from before the hostilities was Billy Lucas. Page was therefore forced to build a completely fresh team, meaning that the Town's fourth place finish in 1946–47 was seen as a major success – especially as many players still needed permission to play as they had not yet been demobbed.^[4]

Swindon slumped to 16th place the following season – just two points off the bottom spot, though did accomplish some giant-killing in their FA Cup run, in which the Town knocked out the previous year's runners-up, Burnley, before being beaten in the Fifth Round by Southampton. In 1948–49, the Town again finished fourth in the Third Division South, without ever challenging for the promotion spot. They failed to finish in the top half of the table for the next eight seasons.^[4]

With the Town in financial difficulties, Page was granted a pitiful sum with which to strengthen the team, and was forced to sell many of his top players. At the end of the 1952–53 season, when Swindon had finished in the bottom nine for three seasons running, Page was relieved of his duties and handed £500 in compensation.^[4]

[edit] Post-Swindon

After being relieved of his duties he became manager of Chester and later a scout for Leicester City.

[edit] International career

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[edit] Appearances

Cap	Date	Venue	Opposition	Att.	Result	Goals
1	12 February 1927	Wrexham	Wales	16,100	(D) 3–3	0
2	2 April 1927	Glasgow	Scotland	111,214	(W) 2–1	0
3	11 May 1927	Brussels	Belgium	35,000	(W) 9–1	1
4	21 May 1927	Luxembourg	Luxembourg	5,000	(W) 5–2	0
5	26 May 1927	Paris	France	25,000	(W) 6–0	0
6	22 October 1927	Belfast	Northern Ireland	30,000	(L) 0–2	0
7	13 March 1911	Millwall	Wales	32,089	(W) 1–2	0

[edit] Honours

• British Home Championship: 1927 (shared)

[edit] References

v • d • e Yeovil Town F.C. – Managers Gregory (1922–1928) · Lawes (1928–1929) · Pratt (1929–1933) · Page (1933–1935) · Halliday (1935–1938) · Kingdon (1938–1946) · Stock (1946–1949) · Patterson (1949–1951) · Lowe (1951–1953) · Clarke (1953–1957) · Dodgin (1957) · Baldwin (1957–1960) · Hayward (1960–1964) · Davies (1964–1965) · McDonald (1965–1967) · Saunders (1967–1969) · Hughes (1969–1972) · Irwin (1972–1975) · Harland (1975–1978) · Lloyd (1978–1981) · Allinson (1981) · Giles (1981–1983) · Finnigan & Hughes (1982) · Coles (1983–1984) · McFarlane (1984) · Gow (1984–1987) · Hall (1987–1990) · Whitehead (1990–1991) · Rutter (1991–1993) · Hall (1994–1995) · Roberts (1995–1998) · Lippiatt (1998–1999) · Thompson (1999–2000) · Webb (2000) · Addison (2000–2001) · Johnson (2001–2005) · Thompson (2005–2006) · Slade (2006–2009) · Skiverton (2009–-) ·

v • d • e Newport County A.F.C. – Managers Hollis (1913) · McDougall (??–??) · Parkes (1919–1922) · Hindmarsh (1922–1935) · Page (1935–1937) · McCandless (1937–1946) · Bromilow (1946–1950) · Stansfield (1950–1953) · Lucas (1953-1961) · Evans (1961–1962) · Lucas (1962–1967) · Graham (1967–1969) · Ferguson (1969–1970) · Lucas (1970–1974) · Harris (1974–1975) · Elliott (1975–1976) · Scoular (1976–1977) · Addison (1977–1978) · Ashurst (1978–1982) · Addison (1982–1985) · Smith (1985–1986) · Relish (1986) · Mullen (1986–1987) · Lewis (1987) · Eastick (1987–1988) · Williams (1988) · May (1988) · Mahoney (1988–89) · Relish (1989–1993) · Rogers (1993–1996) · Price (1997) · Harris (1997–2002) · Nicholas (2002–2004) · Cornforth (2004–2005) · Beadle (2005–2008) · Holdsworth (2008–)

v • d • e Swindon Town F.C. – Managers S. Allen (1902–1933) · Vizard (1933–1939) · Harris (1939–1940) · Page (1945–1953) · Lindley (1953–1955) · Head (1956–1965) · D. Williams (1965–1969) · Ford (1969–1971) · Mackay (1971–1972) · L. Allen (1972–1974) · D. Williams (1974–1978) · Smith (1978–1980) · Trollope (1980–1983) · Beamish (1983–1984) · Macari (1984–1989) · Ardiles (1989–1991) · Hoddle (player) (1991–1993) · Gorman (1993–1994) · McMahon (1994–1998) · Quinn (1998–2000) · Todd (2000) · King (2000–2001) · Evans (2001) · King (2001–2005) · Onuora (2005–2006) · Wise (2006) · A. Williams (caretaker) (2006) · Sturrock (2006–07) · Byrne (caretaker) (2007–2008) · Malpas (2008) · Byrne (caretaker) (2008) · Wilson (2008–)

v • d • e Chester City F.C. – Managers Hewitt (1930–36) · Mansley (1936) · Raisbeck (1936–38) · Brown (1938–53) · Page (1953–56) · Harris (1956–59) · Pearson (1959–61) · Lambton (1962–63) · Hauser (1963–68) · Roberts (1968–76) · Oakes (1976–82) · Sear (1982) · Sainty (1982–83) · Storton (1983–84) · Sear (1984) · McGrath (1984) · Speight (1984–85) · McNally (1985–92) · Barrow (1992–94) · Pejic (1994–95) · Mann (1995) · Ratcliffe (1995–99) · Smith (1999–2000) · Atkins (2000) · Barrow (2000–01) · Hill (2001) · Mungall (2001) · Brown, Porter & Spink (2001–02) · Wright (2002–04) · Mathias (2004) · Rush (2004–05) · Bell (2005) · Curle (2005–06) · Wright (2006–07) · Davies (2007) · Williamson (2007–2008) · Davies (2008) · Wright (2008–09) · Wadsworth (2009–)