Rupert Sandilands

Rupert Renorden Sandilands (7 August 1868 – 20 April 1946) was an English international footballer who played as an outside left.

Rupert Sandilands

Personal information
Full name	Rupert Renorden Sandilands[1]
Date of birth	(1868-08-07)7 August 1868
Place of birth	Denford, England
Date of death	20 April 1946(1946-04-20) (aged 77)
Place of death	Southampton, England
Position(s)	Outside left
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
1888–1898	Old Westminsters
1889–1897	Corinthian
1892	→ Casuals (guest)
1896	→ Ealing (guest)
International career
1892–1896	England	5	(3)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Early and personal life

Sandilands was born on 7 August 1868 at the vicarage in Denford, near Thrapston in Northamptonshire, where his father Percival was the vicar.^[1] He was the youngest of six children.^[1] By 1881 the family was living at Lyvdene School in Devon, where his father was schoolmaster.^[1]

Sandilands attended Westminster School.^[1] He worked in London as a clerk for the Bank of England.^[1] In addition to his football career, he also played hockey and cricket.^[1]

Football career

Sandilands played football whilst attending Westminster School, and played club football for Old Westminsters, Casuals, Corinthian and Ealing.^[1]

He earned five caps for the England national side between 1892 and 1896, scoring three goals.^[2] His first appearance for England was against Wales in March 1892; he scored England's second goal in a 2–0 victory.^[1] He had previously played for an England XI against Canada in a match not regarded as an official international.^[3]

Later life and death

Sandilands had retired from the Bank of England by 1939.^[1] He was living in Lewes and died in Southampton on 20 April 1946, aged 77.^[1]