Manchester City FC19 appearances, 18 goals againstone penalty conceded P 19 W 14 D 3 L 2 F 65: A 1882% successful 1946-49captain: twominutes played: 1710
Timeline
Frank Victor Swift
Birth
26 December 1913 at 33 Ibbison Street, Blackpool, Lancashire[registered in Fylde, March 1914], the fourth of six children to Frederick and Jane Cornall... not 24th (confirmed by his biography and 1939 register). His parents married in Preston on 5 December 1914. Frederick died on 21 August 1921, before Frank's younger siblings, twins, were born.Attended Revoe Primary School in Blackpool.
According to the 1939 register, professional footballer Frank V. is married to Doris, and they live at 104 Lloyd Street South in Manchester.
Marriage
to Doris Potter[registered in Fylde, June 1935].
Death
Thursday, 6 February 1958, died on his way to the Klinikum rechts der Isar in München following the airplane crash at Flughafen München Riem, Kirchtrudering, West Germany, aged 44 years 42 days [registered as Francis in the GRO Air Deaths, 1947-65]. One of 23 fatalities of the Munich Air Disaster.
Source
Douglas Lammings' An English Football Internationalist Who's Who [1990] &
Biographies
Football in the Goalmouth - Frank Swift and Roy Peskett (1948).Frank Swift: Manchester City and England Legend - Mark Metcalfe (DB Publishing, March 2013)
x. - A Football Compendium, Peter J. Seddon (1999).
Club Career
Club(s)
Swift announced his retirement from football on 19 April 1949.
Club honours
x
Individual honours
Football Writers' AssociationFootballer of the Year third place 1947-48;
Distinctions
x
Height/Weight
6' 2", 14st. 0lbs [1949].
Source
Douglas Lammings' An English Football Internationalist Who's Who [1990].
England Career
Player number
One of nine who became the 655th player (655) to appear for England.
Position(s)
Goalkeeper; 69th goalkeeper to appear
First match
No. 227, 28 September 1946, Ireland 2 England 7, a British Championship match at Windsor Park, Donegall Avenue, Belfast, aged 32 years 276 days.
Last match
No. 247, 18 May 1949,Norway 1 England 4,an end-of-season tour match at Ullevål Stadion, Ullevål, Oslo, aged 35 years 143 days.
Major tournaments
British Championship 1946-47, 1947-48, 1948-49;
Team honours
British Championship winners 1946-47, 1947-48;
Individual honours
England B (two appearances, 1947-48);
Distinctions
Died the same day as Roger Byrne, David Pegg and Tommy Taylor and three days after Joe Cottle.
Beyond England
At the time of his retirement from football, Swift was associated with a Manchester catering firm, first as a trainee, then as an assistant manager, from which he was drawing a four-figure salary per year. - An English Football Internationalists' Who's Who. Douglas Lamming (1990). Hatton Press, p.x.
On 6th February 1958 the airliner carrying players and backroom staff of Manchester United, plus a number of journalists and supporters, crashed in a blizzard on its third attempt to take off from Munich airport. United were returning from Belgrade where they had just beaten Red Star Belgrade in the European Cup and had stopped off at Munich for re-fuelling. Twenty-three of the forty-four passengers on board the aircraft lost their lives.- Munich Remembered and Never Forgotten- Munich58.co.uk
Douglas Lammings' An English Football Internationalist Who's Who [1990] &
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