Frank Biggins (24 June 1884 – 1962) was an English

footballer A football player or footballer is a sportsperson who plays one of the different types of football. The main types of football are association football, American football, Canadian football, Australian rules football, Gaelic football, rugby lea ...

who played as an outside right for

South Kirkby South Kirkby is a town in the City of Wakefield in West Yorkshire, England which is governed locally by South Kirkby and Moorthorpe Town Council. The town forms half of the civil parish of South Kirkby and Moorthorpe. The parish has a populatio ...

Barnsley Barnsley () is a market town in South Yorkshire, England. It is the main settlement of the Metropolitan Borough of Barnsley and the fourth largest settlement in South Yorkshire. The town's population was 71,422 in 2021, while the wider boroug ...

and Castleford Town.

Early life

Biggins was born and raised in

Brownhills Brownhills is a historic market and industrial town in the Metropolitan Borough of Walsall of the West Midlands county, England. The town is located south of Cannock Chase and close to the large Chasewater reservoir, it is northeast of Walsa ...

Staffordshire Staffordshire (; postal abbreviation ''Staffs''.) is a Ceremonial counties of England, ceremonial county in the West Midlands (region), West Midlands of England. It borders Cheshire to the north-west, Derbyshire and Leicestershire to the east, ...

, the eldest of nine children born to John Biggins, a coal miner, and Elizabeth Biggins (''née'' Wilton). By 1901, the teenaged Biggins was also working as a coal miner in Brownhills before moving to Yorkshire, where he boarded with Yorkshire footballer

Harry Ness Harry Marshall Ness (8 June 1885 – 26 June 1957) was an English footballer who played for Barnsley and Sunderland. He was a full back. Club career Harry Ness was part of the Barnsley side that contested the 1910 FA Cup Final. They lost in a ...

Playing career

Biggins began his football career with South Kirkby before being signed by Barnsley in May 1908. In August 1911, he left Oakwell for Castleford Town.

References

1884 births 1962 deaths People from Brownhills Sportspeople from the Metropolitan Borough of Walsall Date of death missing English men's footballers Men's association football forwards South Kirkby Colliery F.C. players Barnsley F.C. players {{England-footy-forward-1880s-stub