Vivian Woodward- Southern League, Football League & FA Cup Record

Vivian Woodward's name is forever associated with the remarkable scoring feats of the England Amateur sides of 1906-14 (and their other guise as the double gold medal winning Great Britain Olympic team of 1908 & 1912). He also toured with Football Association squads and featured prominently for various amateur combinations such as English Wanderers and Pilgrims
It is worth recalling that Woodward also scored 29 goals in 23 matches for England between 1903 and 1911.
So what of Vivian Woodward in League and Cup football?
Woodward joined Spurs in March 1901 and made just 1 Southern League appearance that season:

		League			Cup
Season	Club	Games	Goals		Games	Goals
1900-01	Tottenham Hotspur	1	0	5			W
1901-02		2	0	2			R1
1902-03		12	4	4	4	3	R3
1903-04		17	10	2	4	1	R3
1904-05		20	7	5	4	0	R2
1905-06		12	5	5	3	1	R3
1906-07		20	7	6	3	0	R3
1907-08		20	10	7	1	0	R1
1908-09		27	18	2	4	0	R3
1909-10	Chelsea	13	5	19	2	0	R2
1910-11		19	6	3	3	3	SF
1911-12		14	2	2			R2
1912-13		27	10	18	3	1	R2
1913-14		27	4	8	2		R1
1914-15		6	3	19			F

	Games	Goals
Football League Div.1	73	22
Football League Div.2	60	26
Southern League	104	42
FA Cup	33	9

Woodward has the distinction of scoring Tottenham Hotspur's first Football League goal.

Chelsea were prepared to play Woodward in the 1915 FA Cup Final (by then he was Lieutenant Woodward of the 17th Middlesex (1st Football Battalion)). Woodward declined to take the place of the in form  Bobby Thompson.

A gentleman amateur (an architect and farmer) Woodward was also on the board of directors for Tottenham and Chelsea during his time with the clubs, something we'll probably never see in the Premier League.  

The Footballers' Battalions 1914-18

There's an article on the formation of the Footballers' Battalions here: http://www.soccer-history.co.uk/footballersbattalion.pdf

Walter Tull

Born in Kent of a Barbadian father and an English mother, Walter Tull played 20 first team matches for Tottenham Hotspur  between 1909 and 1911.He also toured South America with them. In 1911 Herbert Chapman signed him for Northampton Town. He played 111 games for Northampton up until the outbreak of the war in 1914.
During the First World War Tull served with the Footballers' Battalions of the Middlesex Regiment. When he was promoted from the ranks in 1917 Tull became the first black/ mixed race officer in the British army. He was killed in action in 1918.

Through his actions, Tull ridiculed the barriers of ignorance that tried to deny negroes/mulattos equality with their contemporaries. His life stands testament to a determination to confront those people and those obstacles that sought to diminish him and the world in which he lived. It reveals a man, though rendered breathless in his prime, whose strong heart still beats loudly.
Tull's epitaph: Phil Vasili