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Career & Clubs
He started his career at home side Worksop before transferring to Barnsley on 21 June 1909. He played in both FA Cup finals that Barnsley reached in 1910 and 1912. In the 1910 FA Cup, Bartrop scored a 'wonder goal' in a 1–0 quarter-final win over Queen's Park Rangers. In the final, Barnsley lost the replay 2–0 to Newcastle, after a 1–1 draw in the first tie. The 1912 cup final went again to a replay but Barnsley won, defeating West Bromwich Albion 1–0 in extra time, after a 0–0 draw in the first encounter. Many newspapers, including the Manchester Guardian, praised his play in the replay. At the end of the 1913–14 season he transferred to Liverpool where he played a total of 3 games before his career was interrupted by the First World War. A biography of Wilfred Bartrop, entitled 'Swifter than the Arrow', was published in December 2008.
- Club
- Worksop Town F.C. (1908–1909)
- Club
- Barnsley F.C. (1909–1914)
- Club
- Liverpool F.C. (1914–1915)
Legacy
Barnsley
FA Cup: Winners 1912 His FA Cup winners medal was sold in 2008 for £14400 – more than twice its estimate price.
Clubs
Played together with
Aaron RamsdaleWorksop Town F.C. · 2015–2015- Abe HartleyLiverpool F.C. · 1897–1898
- Abel XavierLiverpool F.C. · 2001–2002
- Abel XavierLiverpool F.C. · 2002–2003
Adam DaviesBarnsley F.C. · 2014–2019- Adam EckersleyBarnsley F.C. · 2007–2007
- Adam HammillBarnsley F.C. · 2009–2009
- Adam HammillBarnsley F.C. · 2009–2011
- Adam HammillBarnsley F.C. · 2015
- Adam HammillLiverpool F.C. · 2006–2009
Adam LallanaLiverpool F.C. · 2014–2020- Adam LewisLiverpool F.C. · 2019
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Identifiers & aliases
Wilf Bartrop was a professional footballer, who played as a forward for several English sides prior to the First World War. He was killed in action, days before the end of the war.
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