{{short description|English footballer}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2016}} {{Use British English|date=April 2016}} {{more citations needed|date=March 2014}} {{Infobox football biography | name = Redfern Froggatt | image = | fullname = | height = {{height|ft=5|in=10+1/2}}<ref>{{cite web| url=https://www.manutd.com/en/news/detail/1958-man-utd-programme-of-first-match-after-munich-air-disaster-is-now-available-to-view-digitally |title=Read a poignant piece of United history|website=Manchester United F.C. |date=18 February 2023|accessdate=21 February 2025}}</ref> | birth_date = {{Birth date|1924|8|23|df=y}} | birth_place = Sheffield, England | death_date = {{death date and age|2003|12|26|1924|8|23|df=y}} | death_place = Sheffield, England | position = Forward | years1 = 1945–1960 | clubs1 = Sheffield Wednesday<ref>http://www.neilbrown.newcastlefans.com/player/redfernfroggatt.html {{Bare URL inline|date=August 2022}}</ref> | caps1 = 434 | goals1 = 140 | nationalyears1 = 1950 | nationalteam1 = England B | nationalcaps1 = 1 | nationalgoals1 = 1 | nationalyears2 = 1952–1953 | nationalteam2 = England | nationalcaps2 = 4 | nationalgoals2 = 2 }} '''Redfern Froggatt''' (23 August 1924 – 26 December 2003) was an English footballer for Sheffield Wednesday and England. In total he received four England caps scoring 2 goals.
==Club career== In 1942 'Red' was signed from Sheffield YMCA but did not become a regular player in the Sheffield Wednesday side until 1945. Over the course of the next 15 years he would go on to make a total of 498 appearances for the club, mostly as a striker but playing over 50 games as a winger, scoring 149 goals. On New Year's Eve 1953, Froggatt submitted a transfer request, and an offer from Steel City derby rivals Sheffield United was rejected in February 1954.<ref name = "EFO">{{cite web|url=http://englandfootballonline.com/TeamPlyrsBios/PlayersF/BioFroggattR.html|title=England Players - Redfern Froggatt|work=englandfootballonline.com|accessdate=17 May 2018}}</ref>
His final game for Wednesday came in the 1959–60 season. On 22 January 1960, Froggatt turned down a move to fellow South Yorkshire club Doncaster Rovers, before signing for Stalybridge Celtic in 1962.<ref name="EFO" />
==International career== Froggatt received his first representative honours when he played for England B against Switzerland B at his club's ground of Hillsborough, on 18 January 1950.<ref name="EFO" />
Froggatt featured on the 28-man longlist for the 1950 FIFA World Cup, however was excluded from the final squad.<ref>{{cite news|title=England's World Cup rejects: a brief history of woe and where-are-they-nows|first=Gary|last=Parkinson|date=16 May 2018|accessdate=17 May 2018|work=fourfourtwo.com|publisher=FourFourTwo|url=https://www.fourfourtwo.com/features/englands-world-cup-rejects-a-brief-history-woe-and-where-are-they-nows}}</ref> He made his England debut in a British Home Championship match against Wales on 12 November 1952, before scoring his first England goal in the following international fixture a fortnight later, against Belgium.<ref name="EFO" /> Froggatt faced Scotland in his third consecutive England international.<ref name="EFO" /> His fourth and last England cap was his first away from Wembley Stadium, and came on 8 June 1953 against the United States at Yankee Stadium in New York, in which he scored one of the Three Lions' six.<ref name="EFO" />
==Personal life== Redfern was the son of former Wednesday captain and Notts County centre-half Frank Froggatt, and the cousin of England international Jack Froggatt.<ref name="EFO" />
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