The statue of Edwards in the centre of his home town of Dudley
Personal information
Full name
Duncan Edwards
Date of birth
(1936-10-01)1 October 1936
Place of birth
Woodside, Dudley, England
Date of death
21 February 1958(1958-02-21) (aged 21)
Place of death
Munich, West Germany
Height
5 ft 11 in (1.80 m)
Position(s)
Left half
Youth career
1952–1953
Manchester United
Senior career*
Years
Team
Apps
(Gls)
1953–1958
Manchester United
151
(20)
International career
1949–1952
England Schoolboys
9
(0)
1954–1957
England U23
6
(5)
1953–1954
England B
4
(0)
1955–1957
England
18
(5)
Signature
*Club domestic league appearances and goals
Duncan Edwards (1 October 1936 – 21 February 1958) was an English footballer who played as a left-half for Manchester United and the England national team. He was one of the Busby Babes, the young United team formed under manager Matt Busby in the mid-1950s, playing 177 matches for the club. He was noted for his physical strength, toughness, and level of authority on the pitch, and has been ranked amongst the toughest players of all time. One of eight players who died as a result of the Munich air disaster, he survived initially but succumbed to his injuries in hospital two weeks later. Many of his contemporaries have described him as one of the best, if not the best, players with whom they had played.[1]
Born in Woodside, Dudley, Edwards signed for Manchester United as a teenager and went on to become the youngest player to play in the Football League First Division and at the time the youngest England player since the Second World War, going on to play 18 times for his country at top level. In a professional career of less than five years he helped United to win two Football League championships and two FA Charity Shields, and reach the semi-finals of the European Cup.
^Taylor, Daniel (28 March 2015). "Could Duncan Edwards, the original Boy Wonder, have been the greatest?". The Guardian. Retrieved 8 April 2024.
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Franciscan friar at the hospital how DuncanEdwards was faring; the friar was unaware that the news of Edwards's death had been kept from him and felt...
deal of memorabilia connected to local football legend and Busby Babe DuncanEdwards, who was born in the town in 1936, and won two Football League title...
detailed the 1989 unsolved murder of Duncan's teenaged daughter, Kaitlyn. She received the 1992 Margaret Edwards Award from the American Library Association...
during the 1955-56 season, ousting Jeff Whitefoot to play alongside DuncanEdwards. He finished the season with a Football League First Division title...
army service in Shrewsbury at the same time was his United teammate DuncanEdwards. Charlton played 17 times for United in that first season, scoring twice...
he became the youngest player to represent Manchester United since DuncanEdwards in 1953, as well as the first player born in the 2000s to appear in...
the players – Roger Byrne (28), Eddie Colman (21), Mark Jones (24), DuncanEdwards (21), Liam Whelan (22), Tommy Taylor (26), David Pegg (22) and Geoff...
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UFC 286: Edwards vs. Usman 3 was a mixed martial arts event produced by the Ultimate Fighting Championship that took place on March 18, 2023, at The O2 Arena...
versatility. He began his career as a left-half before the emergence of DuncanEdwards in this position, when he switched to the forward positions, but the...
Doing the 92. Retrieved 11 June 2020. "Peter Doherty". Doing the 92. "DuncanEdwards". Doing the 92. "Tom Finney". Doing the 92. "Paul Gascoigne". Doing...
Archived from the original on 11 February 2015. "DuncanEdwards statue". duncan-edwards.co.uk. "DuncanEdwards statue re-dedicated in Dudley". bbc.co.uk/news...
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