Dick Pym

Dick Pym

Personal information
Full name	Richard Henry Pym
Date of birth	2 February 1893
Place of birth	Topsham, Exeter, Devon, England
Date of death	16 September 1988(1988-09-16) (aged 95)
Place of death	Exeter, Devon, England
Playing position	Goalkeeper
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps†	(Gls)†
	Topsham
?–1921	Exeter City	39	(0)
1921–1931	Bolton Wanderers	301	(0)
1931–?	Yeovil & Petters United
–	Topsham
National team
	England	3	(0)
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. † Appearances (Goals).

Richard Henry Pym (known as Dick Pym; born Topsham, Exeter, Devon, England, 2 February 1893, died 16 September 1988) was a football player best known for being the Bolton Wanderers goalkeeper at the first ever FA Cup final to be played at Wembley Stadium in 1923.

The game, known as the White Horse Final because of the presence of a mounted white police horse at the helm of the crowd control, ended in a 2-0 win for Bolton. Pym had joined them from Exeter City two years earlier for a world record five thousand pounds.

Pym, nicknamed Pincher Pym, won further FA Cup winners medals with Bolton in 1926 and 1929 and earned three England caps. He left Bolton in 1930 to go into the non-league game.

He became the last-surviving member of the historic 1923 team and lived until he was 95, earning him the record for the longest-lived England footballer.

Persondata
Name	Pym, Dick
Alternative names
Short description	English footballer
Date of birth	2 February 1893
Place of birth	Topsham, Exeter, Devon, England
Date of death	16 September 1988
Place of death	Exeter, Devon, England