Denaby Utd – Player – Powell, Edgar (picture)

25 November 1922

Mexborough Times, November 25th 1922

In his way Edgar Powell is as much a wizard as any Welshman of them all.

He has played some brilliant games for Denaby this season, though it has to be allowed that when he is “off” he is very much so.

He was fetched up here from Pembroke in the close season, and when he is not flying along the wing is working at the trade of a boiler-smith.

He is a schoolboy international, and was “capped” for Wales in 1912 and 1913. Soon after leaving school he quickly graduated to senior football, and played for his home town, Barry, in the Welsh league and the Southern league, playing in both right wing positions, and figuring in the Southern league championship side of 1919-20. From Barry he went to Pembroke Dock (Welsh league), and took his first professional engagement there. Whilst with Pembroke, he developed as an outside left, and made a name in the Welsh league.

The Pembroke club were loath to let him come up to Yorkshire, and offering him generous terms to stay, but Powell is ambitious to get on at his trade of boilersmithing and acetylene welding, and Denaby are just the thing for him.

He takes football very seriously, but recognises that it isn’t everything. He has greatly strengthened the Denaby attack, and, on his day, is as brilliant winger as the club has ever had. If he were more consistent, he would go a long way.

He is not yet 23 and there should be lots of good football in him.

Also see Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edgar_Powell