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词条 Arthur Drewry
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  1. Biography

     English football administration  President of FIFA 

  2. References

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Arthur Drewry, {{post-nominals|country=GBR|size=100%|commas=on|CBE}} (3 March 1891 – 25 March 1961) was an English football administrator who served as the fifth president of FIFA, the world governing body of association football, from 1955 to 1961. Drewry had held several football administration posts in his native England, serving as chairman of The Football Association and president of The Football League.

Biography

Drewry was born in Grimsby, Lincolnshire, and educated at the Grimsby Collegiate School.[1]

In 1911 Drewry joined the Lincolnshire Yeomanry and served in the First World War with the 1/1st Lincolnshire Yeomanry in Palestine.[1] Drewry reached the rank of quartermaster sergeant with his squadron in the Yeomanry.[1] After the war, in 1919, Drewry married the daughter of a Grimsby fish merchant, and Drewry would run his father-in-law's business until his retirement in 1953.[2][1] In the Second World War Drewry served as North Lincolnshire's head warden and chief fire guard.[1] Drewry held several civic roles in his native Grimsby, serving both as a borough councillor and a Justice of the Peace.[1]

English football administration

Drewry's career in football administration began with his serving as a director of Grimsby Town, the chairman of the club was Drewry's father-in-law, and Drewry himself would also become chairman of the club.[2] Drewry later served as President of the Football League from 1949 to 1955.[1] Drewry served on the Football Association's International Selection Committee from 1944, and after his presidency of the Football League served as chairman of The Football Association (FA) from 1955 to 1961.[2] Drewry succeeded Amos Brook Hirst as chairman of the FA; Hirst had resigned due to ill health.[3] As chair of the FA Drewry once proposed awarding a point to league teams for every goal scored to encourage offensive football.[4] Drewry's proposals were rejected by the teams.[5]

Drewry played a significant role in the 1950 game between England and the United States in which the English lost 1–0 to the rank outsiders in the 1950 FIFA World Cup in Belo Horizonte.[6] The English national coach, Walter Winterbottom, had wanted to rest some players for the next game against Spain, but was over-ruled by Drewry, acting as sole selector, who chose an unchanged team from their last game, a 2–0 win against Chile.[6] Stanley Rous, Drewry's secretary at the FA, visited him and urged him to include Stanley Matthews and make other changes to the team, but Drewry was adamant in his desire to keep an unchanged team.[7] After the loss against the United States, Drewry acquiesced to four changes to the team, but England lost their next game to Spain 1–0, and as a result were eliminated from the tournament.[7][8]

In 1953 Coronation Honours, Drewry appointed a Commander of Order of the British Empire (CBE).

Following the Munich air disaster on 6 February 1958 which claimed the lives of a number of Manchester United staff and personnel, Drewry was appointed chairman in March of the fundraising committee for dependents of those involved in the disaster.[9] The funds raised had reached £52,000 ({{Inflation|UK|52000|1958|fmt=eq|cursign=£|r=-4}}) by the time of their disbursement in October 1958.[10]{{Inflation-fn|UK|df=y}}

In his capacity as chair of the FA, Drewry was one of six football officials sued by five Sunderland players who were suspended in 1957 for refusing to answer questions about possible illegal payments.[11] Stanley Rous served as Drewry's secretary at the FA.[12] Drewry and Rous travelled to Switzerland in 1945, to the headquarters of FIFA to successfully negotiate for the re-admittance of the British Home Nations to FIFA.[2]

President of FIFA

Drewry had been appointed the vice-president of FIFA by Jules Rimet,[2] and served as the interim president for the six months following the death of Rimet's presidential successor, Belgian Rodolphe William Seeldrayers.[13] At the 30th FIFA Congress in Lisbon, Portugal, Drewry defeated France's M. Larfarge by 38 votes to 16 for the presidency.[12] Drewry oversaw the 1958 FIFA World Cup during his term in office, and ultimately served as president for five years before his death from a year-long illness in 1961.[12] Drewry was the third FIFA president to die in office.

References

1. ^Our Association Football Correspondent. "Mr. Arthur Drewry." The Times, London, 27 March 1961, pg 19.
2. ^{{cite book|author=Alan Tomlinson|title=Sport and Leisure Cultures|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=JphFoBnq2R8C&pg=PA55|year=2005|publisher=U of Minnesota Press|isbn=978-0-8166-3383-8|page=55}}
3. ^Our Association Football Correspondent. "Hazards of the Cup Final.", The Times, London, 7 May 1955, pg. 6
4. ^Geoffrey Green Football Correspondent. "Football" The Times, London, 23 August 1975, pg. 21
5. ^Geoffrey Green, Football Correspondent. "Bonus points for goals in new U.S. league." The Times, London, 22 March 1967, pg. 8
6. ^The Guardian, London, 20 March 2003, pg 63.
7. ^{{cite book|author=Graham Morse|title=Sir Walter Winterbottom – The Father of Modern English Football|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=5av_AQAAQBAJ&pg=PT106|date=4 March 2013|publisher=John Blake Publishing, Limited|isbn=978-1-78219-377-7|page=106}}
8. ^{{cite book|author=Mary Vincent|title=Spain, 1833–2002: People and State|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=66jafmoQlN4C&pg=PT308|date=6 December 2007|publisher=Oxford University Press|isbn=978-0-19-160701-1|pages=308–}}
9. ^The Manchester Guardian, Manchester, 1 April 1958, pg. 12
10. ^Our own Reporter, The Manchester Guardian, Manchester, 11 October 1958, 1
11. ^The Guardian, London, 10 October 1959, pg. 2
12. ^{{cite book|author=Alan Tomlinson|title=FIFA (Fédération Internationale de Football Association): The Men, the Myths and the Money|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=FTBEAwAAQBAJ&pg=PA55|date=3 April 2014|publisher=Routledge|isbn=978-1-134-44438-0|page=55}}
13. ^{{cite web|title=FIFA Presidents|url=https://www.fifa.com/aboutfifa/organisation/president/pastpresidents.html|work=FIFA Presidents|publisher=FIFA|accessdate=13 September 2014}}
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