{{short description|English footballer}} {{Use dmy dates|date=May 2016}} {{Use British English|date=May 2016}} {{Infobox football biography | name = Frank Foxall | image = | fullname = | height = | position = Outside forward | birth_date = 11 March 1883<ref>''1939 England and Wales Register''</ref> | birth_place = Sheffield, Yorkshire, England | death_date = <!-- Q2 --> 1968 (age 85)<ref name="death">''England & Wales, Civil Registration Death Index, 1916-2007''</ref> | death_place = Rotherham, West Riding of Yorkshire | years1 = | clubs1 = Roundel | years2 = 1901–1902 | clubs2 = Wombwell Town | years3 = 1902–1903 | clubs3 = Doncaster Rovers | caps3 = 12 | goals3 = 2 | years4 = 1903–1907 | clubs4 = Gainsborough Trinity | caps4 = 126 | goals4 = 38 | years5 = 1907–1910 | clubs5 = Sheffield Wednesday | caps5 = 45 | goals5 = 9 | years6 = 1910–1911 | clubs6 = Birmingham | caps6 = 21 | goals6 = 3 | years7 = 1911–191? | clubs7 = Shrewsbury Town | caps7 = | goals7 = }}
'''Francis Foxall'''<ref><!-- Francis Foxall in Aston, Warwickshire, occupation: Footballer Professional -->1911 England Census</ref> (11 March 1883 – <!-- Q2 --> 1968) was an English professional footballer who scored 52 goals in 204 appearances in the Football League playing for Doncaster Rovers, Gainsborough Trinity, Sheffield Wednesday and Birmingham.<ref name=Joyce>{{cite book |last=Joyce |first=Michael |title=Football League Players' Records 1888 to 1939 |publisher=SoccerData |location=Nottingham |year=2004 |page=94 |isbn=978-1-899468-67-6}}</ref> He played as an outside forward.
Foxall was born in Sheffield. He played football for Roundel and Wombwell Town before joining Doncaster Rovers of the Second Division in 1902. The following year Foxall moved on to Gainsborough Trinity, also of the Second Division, where he spent four years,<ref name=Matthews87>{{cite book |last=Matthews |first=Tony |title=Birmingham City: A Complete Record |year=1995 |publisher=Breedon Books |location=Derby |page=87 |isbn=978-1-85983-010-9}}</ref> scoring League goals at a rate close to one every three games.<ref name=Joyce/> This earned him a move to established First Division club Sheffield Wednesday, on the verge of winning the 1907 FA Cup Final.<ref name=Matthews87/><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.fchd.info/SHEFFIEW.HTM |title=Sheffield Wednesday |work=Football Club History Database |publisher=Richard Rundle |access-date=19 March 2009}}</ref> Foxall scored twice in what remained of the 1906–07 season, and over the next three years averaged 15 first-team games a season.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.adrianbullock.com/swfc/stats/play0196.htm |title=F Foxall |work=The Sheffield Wednesday Archive |publisher=Stuart Jackson |accessdate=19 March 2009}}</ref> In April 1910 he moved on to Birmingham, on the verge of having to apply for re-election. Birmingham experimented with Foxall at inside forward with little success, and he soon returned to the wing, but after a year with the club he moved on again, this time to Shrewsbury Town.<ref name=Matthews87/>
On 12 November 1908, he was convicted of assault causing actual bodily harm for "maliciously assaulting" a man from Sheffield two months prior. He was fined £20 ({{Inflation|UK|20|1908|r=-3|fmt=eq|cursign=£}}).<ref><!-- Occupation listed as "Professional Football Player." --> ''West Yorkshire, England, Prison Records, 1801-1914''</ref>
He was married to Selena (or Selina) Green in 1903.<ref>''England & Wales, Civil Registration Marriage Index, 1837-1915''</ref> He died in 1968 in Rotherham, West Riding of Yorkshire.<ref name="death"/>
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