George Griffiths | |
Birth Date: | 11 April 1865 |
Birth Place: | Chirk, Wales |
Death Place: | Leigh, England |
Position: | Inside left |
Clubs1: | Chirk |
Nationalyears1: | 1887 |
Nationalteam1: | Wales |
Nationalcaps1: | 1 |
Nationalgoals1: | 0 |
George Griffiths (11 April 1865 – 7 July 1918) was a Welsh amateur footballer who played for Chirk as an inside left. He was capped by Wales at international level.[1]
Griffiths worked as a miner and had eight children.[2] He also served in the Royal Welch Fusiliers. Griffiths served in the Army Service Corps during the First World War and was discharged in 1917 after an injury to his knee. He died of stomach cancer in July 1918.