When Leeds City played at Barnsley in a Midland Section wartime game
on 18 November 1916, they were without Clem and Jimmy
Stephenson, Edward Hudson and Jack
Hampson.
Fred Clipstone, a Northampton Town defender who was working in Leeds
at the time, was one of a number of players drafted in to make up the
side and featured at right-back. With such a scratch team, the Peaocks
unsurprisingly lost 4-1. It was the full-back's first game in several
months and he was understandably rusty. Barnsley got their third goal
from a free kick given away by Clipstone on the edge of the Leeds area
when he fouled Donkin.
Clipstone also featured in three Subsidiary Tournament games at the
end of the season, but never played professionally.
