Billy Heath | |
Fullname: | Joseph Frederick Heath |
Birth Date: | 1869 |
Birth Place: | Bristol, England |
Position: | Forward |
Years1: | 1891–1892 |
Caps1: | 8 |
Goals1: | 4 |
Years2: | 1893–1895 |
Clubs2: | Woolwich Arsenal (Arsenal FC) |
Caps2: | 10 |
Goals2: | 5 |
Clubs3: | Gravesend United |
Joseph Frederick, better known as Billy Heath (1869 – after 1895), was an English footballer who played in the Football League for Wolverhampton Wanderers and Woolwich Arsenal.[1] He is best known for having scored the first-ever penalty kick awarded in the Football League, doing it so in a match between Wolves and Accrington at Molineux Stadium on 14 September 1891, which Wolves won 5–0.[2]