Florrie Redford

Florrie Redford was an English footballer and nurse who played for Dick, Kerr Ladies, one of the earliest professional women's association football teams in England. Born in Preston, Lancashire, she worked at the Dick, Kerr and Co. factory making munitions during the First World War, where the young women of the factory staff began playing football in their meal breaks. A centre-forward, she played in the club's first match as Dick, Kerr Ladies on Christmas Day 1917 and in international matches against Scotland and Ireland in 1918, and she is credited with 170 goals in 1921. She toured Canada and the United States with the team in 1922 and spent a period in France, living with Carmen Pomiès and playing for Fémina Sport. In later life she emigrated to Canada, worked as a nurse and returned to the team briefly in 1938.