The topic of this article may not meet Wikipedia's notability guideline for sports and athletics. Please help to demonstrate the notability of the topic by citing reliable secondary sources that are independent of the topic and provide significant coverage of it beyond a mere trivial mention. If notability cannot be shown, the article is likely to be merged, redirected, or deleted.Find sources: "Alfred Chalk" – news · newspapers · books · scholar · JSTOR (March 2022) (Learn how and when to remove this template message)
| Personal information | |||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Alfred Erskine Chalk | ||||||||||||||||
| Date of birth | 27 November 1874 | ||||||||||||||||
| Place of birth | Plaistow, Greater London, England | ||||||||||||||||
| Date of death | 25 June 1954 (Age 79) | ||||||||||||||||
| Place of death | Bridge, Kent, England | ||||||||||||||||
| Position(s) | Right half | ||||||||||||||||
| Senior career* | |||||||||||||||||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) | ||||||||||||||
| 1900 | Upton Park | ||||||||||||||||
| International career | |||||||||||||||||
| 1900 | Great Britain Olympic | 1 | (0) | ||||||||||||||
Medal record
| |||||||||||||||||
| *Club domestic league appearances and goals | |||||||||||||||||
Alfred Ernest Chalk (27 November 1874 – 25 June 1954) was a British Railway clerk and footballer who competed in the 1900 Olympic Games.[1]
He was well known in London football circles at the turn of the century. He played for Ilford, Barking Woodville, and Essex County, and was right-half for Upton Park when they won the gold medal in the 1900 Olympics. According to the limited reports which reached London from Paris, Chalk was one of the Olympic side's outstanding players. He was one of 18 children of a railway station manager and followed in his father's profession by becoming a railway clerk.
