David Calderhead

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David Calderhead
Personal information
Full name David Calderhead
Date of birth 19 June 1864(1864-06-19)
Place of birth    Hurlford, Scotland
Date of death    January 9, 1938 (aged 73)
Place of death    London, England
Playing position Centre-Half
Youth clubs
Wishaw Swifts
Wishaw Thistle
Senior clubs1
Years Club App (Gls)*
1881-1889
1889-1900
1900-1901		 Queen of the South Wanderers
Notts County
Lincoln City
278 (12)
002 0(0)   
National team
1889 Scotland 1 (0)
Teams managed
1900-1907
1907-1933		 Lincoln City
Chelsea

1 Senior club appearances and goals
counted for the domestic league only.
* Appearances (Goals)

David Calderhead (19 June 1864, in Hurlford, – 9 January 1938 in London) was a Scottish footballer who later became a manager, notably of Chelsea.

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[edit] Playing career

Calderhead was a central defender and played for various clubs, included Queen of the South Wanderers and Notts County, with whom he won the FA Cup in 1894 after a 4-1 victory over Bolton Wanderers. He won a solitary Scotland cap, in a 7-0 win against Northern Ireland at Ibrox in the British Home Championship in March 1889.

[edit] Management career

He then moved into management, taking over at Lincoln City in 1900. In leading his side to a shock replayed win over Chelsea in the first round of 1906-07 FA Cup, he impressed the West London club's board enough for them to appoint him manager later that year.

Calderhead was Chelsea's first full-time secretary-manager and spent almost 26 years at the club, making him the club's longest-serving manager. In his time there, the team were relegated twice, in 1909-10 and 1923-24, and subsequently re-promoted as Second Division runners-up on both occasions.

He took Chelsea to their first FA Cup final, in 1915, but in a match overshadowed by the First World War they were beaten by Sheffield United 0-3 at Old Trafford. The club later reached two more semi-finals under Calderhead and were on course for a domestic double in 1919-20 but ultimately finished 3rd in the First Division and were denied in the FA Cup by Aston Villa.

Calderhead was notoriously shy of the media, earning the nickname "The Sphinx of Stamford Bridge". But he was not afraid to spend headline-making transfer fees on star strikers (especially fellow Scots), bringing the likes of Hughie Gallacher, Alex Jackson and Alec Cheyne to Stamford Bridge. Despite the glamour of the squad, real success still eluded the club.

He left the job in June 1933 to be replaced by Leslie Knighton and died five years later in London at the age of 73.

His son, also called David, played for Chelsea while Calderhead was manager and later managed Lincoln City.

[edit] Honours

[edit] As a player

Notts County

[edit] As a manager

Chelsea
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Lincoln City F.C. – Managers

Calderhead (1900–07) • Henry (1907–14) • Fraser (1919–21) • Calderhead, Jnr. (1921–24) • Henshall (1924–27) • Parkes (1927–36) • McClelland (1936–46) • Anderson (1946–65) • Chapman (1965–66) • Gray (1966–70) • Loxley (1970–71) • Herd (1971–72) • Taylor (1972–77) • Kerr (1977) • Bell (1977–78) • Murphy (1978–85) • Pickering (1985) • Kerr (1985–87) • Daniel (1987) • Murphy (1987–90) • Clarke (1990) • Thompson (1990–93) • Alexander (1993–94) • Ellis (1994–95) • Wicks (1995) • Beck (1995–97) • Westley (1997–98) • Reames (1998–2000) • Stant (2000–01) • Buckley (2001–02) • Alexander (2002–06) • Deehan & Schofield (2006–07) • Brown (2007) • Jackson (2007–)
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Chelsea F.C. – Managers

Robertson (1905–06) • Lewis (1906–07) • Calderhead (1907–33) • Knighton (1933–39) • Birrell (1939–52) • Drake (1952–61) • Docherty (1961–67) • Sexton (1967–74) • Suart (1974–75) • McCreadie (1975–77) • Shellito (1977–78) • Blanchflower (1978–79) • Hurst (1979–81) • Gould (1981) • Neal (1981–85) • Hollins (1985–88) • Campbell (1988–91) • Porterfield (1991–93) • Webb (1993) • Hoddle (1993–96) • Gullit (1996–98) • Vialli (1998–2000) • Rix (2000) • Ranieri (2000–04) • Mourinho (2004–07) • Grant (2007–08) • Scolari (2008–)
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