Frederick William Hargreaves (16 August 1858 - 5 April 1897) was an English footballer who represented the England national football team

England national football team

The England national football team represents England in association football and is controlled by the Football Association, the governing body for football in England. England is the joint oldest national football team in the world, alongside Scotland, whom they played in the world's first...

. He also played first-class cricket

First-class cricket

First-class cricket is a class of cricket that consists of matches of three or more days' scheduled duration, that are between two sides of eleven players and are officially adjudged first-class by virtue of the standard of the competing teams...

 with Lancashire

Lancashire County Cricket Club

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.

A member of the Malvern College

Malvern College

Malvern College is a coeducational independent school located on a 250 acre campus near the town centre of Malvern, Worcestershire in England. Founded on 25 January 1865, until 1992, the College was a secondary school for boys aged 13 to 18...

 1st XI team, Hargreaves played his club football for the Blackburn Rovers

Blackburn Rovers F.C.

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 and was a midfielder in their team which lost the 1882 FA Cup Final

1882 FA Cup Final

The 1882 FA Cup Final was contested by Old Etonians and Blackburn Rovers at the Kennington Oval. Old Etonians won 1–0, the only goal scored by Reginald Macaulay...

. His first international cap for England came in 1880 when he took the field against Wales, with England winning 3-2. The following year he made an appearance in another international against Wales but this time finished on the losing side. In 1882, he claimed his third and final cap in a convincing 13-0 victory over Ireland. As of July 2010, this remains England's highest ever winning margin.

His brother John

John Hargreaves (footballer)

John Hargreaves was an English international footballer, who played as a winger.-Career:Born in Blackburn, Hargreaves played for Blackburn Rovers, and earned two caps for England in 1881....

 also played at Blackburn and represented England.

An amateur cricketer who was previously a member of Malvern's First Eleven Cricket team, he appeared in his only first-class cricket

Cricket

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 match in 1881, against Derbyshire. Hargreaves was dismissed by George Osborne

George Osborne (cricketer)

George Osborne was an English cricketer who played for Derbyshire between 1879 and 1883.Osborne played cricket at club level for Chesterfield and made his debut first-class appearance in a Gentlemen v. Players match in 1877, on the winning Players side. He joined Derbyshire in the 1879 season and...

 for a duck in his only innings and took a couple of catches. He played club cricket at Blackburn's East Lancashire Cricket Club.

External links

• Cricinfo: Frederick Hargreaves