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{{short description|English footballer}}
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'''Alfred George Goodwyn''' (13 March 1850 – 14 March 1874) was an English [[Royal Engineer]], who represented [[Royal Engineers A.F.C.|his regiment]] at [[association football|football]]. He was a member of the Regiment's team that was defeated in [[1872 FA Cup Final|the very first FA Cup final]]. He also represented [[England national football team|England]] in the second international football match against [[Scotland national football team|Scotland]] in [[1872-73 in English football#Overview|1873]].

==Career==
Goodwyn was born at Roorhir, [[Bengal]], in [[British India]] (now Ruhea, [[Bangladesh]]). In 1869, he entered the [[Royal Military Academy, Woolwich|Royal Military Academy]] at [[Woolwich]].<ref>{{cite book|last=Warsop|first=Keith|title=The Early FA Cup Finals and the Southern Amateurs, a Who's Who and Match Facts 1872 to 1883|year=2004|publisher=Tony Brown, Nottingham|page=81|isbn=1-899468-78-1}}</ref> In August 1871, he was commissioned as a [[lieutenant]] in the [[Royal Engineers]]. Fellow graduates on the same day were two of his fellow FA Cup finalists, [[Edmond Cotter]] and [[Herbert Muirhead]], as well as [[Richard Ruck]], who played in the [[1875 FA Cup Final]].<ref>{{London Gazette |issue=23761|page=3416|date= 1 August 1871 }}</ref><ref>{{cite book | author=Graham Betts| title=England: Player by player | publisher=Green Umbrella Publishing | year=2006| pages=111|isbn=1-905009-63-1}}</ref>

[[File:RoyalEngineers1872.jpg|thumb|250px|right|The Royal Engineers team of 1872. Eight of these players played in the first FA Cup Final. Goodwyn is seated fourth from the left]]
He played football for the regiment, generally playing in defence, and was a member of the team who reached the first final of the [[FA Cup]] in [[1871-72 FA Cup|1872]]. En route to the final, the Engineers did not concede a goal and defeated [[Hitchin F.C.|Hitchin]] 5–0, [[Hampstead Heathens F.C.|Hampstead Heathens]] 3–0 and [[Crystal Palace F.C. (1861)|Crystal Palace]] 3–0 (after a goalless draw). Although the Engineers entered [[1872 FA Cup Final|the final]], played at [[Kennington Oval]] on 16 March 1872, as "favourites to win the trophy",<ref>{{cite book |last= Gibbons|first= Philip|title= Association Football in Victorian England - A History of the Game from 1863 to 1900|year= 2001|publisher= Upfront Publishing|pages=34–36 |isbn= 1-84426-035-6}}</ref> their opponents, the [[Wanderers F.C.|Wanderers]], won the match 1–0.

He was selected for the second official international match between [[England national football team|England]] and [[Scotland national football team|Scotland]] played at [[Kennington Oval]], [[London]] on 8 March 1873, together with his Royal Engineers colleague, [[Pelham von Donop]] who played alongside him in defence. England won the match 4–2. In its report on the match, the ''Glasgow Herald'' (Monday, 10 March 1873) noted that "the back play of A G Goodwyn ... was faultless".

In 1874, Goodwyn was posted back to India with his regiment, where he died, at [[Roorkee]], on 14 March 1874 (the day after his 24th birthday) as a result of injuries suffered two days earlier in a horse riding accident and ironically on the same day as the [[1874 FA Cup Final]] where his colleagues were defeated 2–0 by [[Oxford University A.F.C.|Oxford University]].<ref>The Early FA Cup Finals and the Southern Amateurs, a Who's Who and Match Facts 1872 to 1883, pp=42,81</ref> He was the first England international footballer to die.

==Sporting honours==
'''Royal Engineers'''
*[[FA Cup Final]] finalist: [[1872 FA Cup Final|1872]]

==See also==
* [[List of England international footballers born outside England]]

==References==
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==External links==
*{{Englandstats|id=400|name=Alfred Goodwyn}}
*[http://www.englandfc.com/Profiles/php/PlayerProfileByName.php?id=403 England football career]

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>Lettler: added Category:Deaths by horse-riding accident in India using HotCat